Drug charge convictions
NZPA staff correspondent Sydney A New Zealand woman and three Arab companions have been found guilty on drug charges, after a trial that lasted almost six weeks and involved the work of a New Zealand undercover policeman. Ana Louise Ankers, Mohsen Shetefa, Abdessalam Gouiouh, and Jihad Khodra each pleaded not guilty to charges of possessing 196 grammes of heroin, 'and supplying the drug.
They have been remanded in custody to early August for sentence. The trial, in the Darlinghurst District Court was the scene of tight security in its opening days as the undercover policeman gave evidence and was crossexamined for the best part of a week on how he helped trap Ankers and her companions. He told the Court how he had approached Ankers in New Zealand in April last year to discuss the possibil-
ity of buying drugs, and then came to Sydney to deal with the three Arab defendants. The agent described how he made some small deals with the trio before setting up a deal to buy a kilogram of heroin. The quartet were arrested in a car-park in the exculsive surburb of Double Bay on May 10, 1982, when 200 grammes of heroin was to have been handed to the agent in return for SAustIOO.OOO (?NZ133,000).
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Press, 2 July 1983, Page 8
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