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A woman caught with £26,000 worth of cocaine in her knickers while passing through airport security has been jailed for almost three years.

Shantel Bailey, aged 33, from Dudley, was stopped by Border Force officials at Gatwick Airport following a flight from Montego Bay in Jamica.

After swab tests on her shoes tested positive for cocaine, they searched her and found a package with 250 grams of cocaine in her knickers.

The incident was on October 26 in 2011 – but she jumped bail and was arrested on October 30 last year by the National Crime Agency.

Appearing at Croydon Crown Court on Wednesday, Bailey, of Purlin Way, pleaded guilty to attempting to import a class A drug. She was sentenced to 32 months in prison.

Carole Upshall, Border Force south regional director, said: "This case demonstrates the desperate lengths that smugglers will resort to in their attempts to bring class A drugs into the UK.

"Border Force officers are at the forefront of the fight to stop illegal drugs and other contraband crossing our border."

It is the latest conviction for drugs seizures at the airport.

Dane Hamilton, of All Saints Road in Wolverhampton, was given a six-year jail term for drug smuggling from Jamaica.

Hamilton was caught with £160,000 of cocaine concealed inside meat patties at Birmingham Airport in 2012.

He was jailed at Birmingham Crown Court in June.