At Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport a woman from the Netherlands Antilles has been arrested for attempting to smuggle cocaine into the country in her baby’s nappy.

Customs officers say it is the first time they have ever caught anyone trying to smuggle drugs in this way.
 

The woman, who arrived on a flight from the Dutch island of Curaçao, was carrying more than a kilogram of cocaine in total. Most of it was concealed using the more conventional smuggling method: wrapped in condoms and swallowed.
 

Last week a man from Surinam was arrested at Schiphol Airport with a record quantity of cocaine in his stomach. He had swallowed a total of 182 cocaine-filled condoms, weighing 2.2 kilograms in total. He shares the weight record with a man picked up earlier this year, who had swallowed 218 smaller packages.