Thailand drug boss reveals how gangs recruit ‘young and dumb’ Britons to smuggle cannabis to the UK: ‘Why would I feel bad when they’re caught?’
A female Thailand drug boss revealed how her gang grooms ‘young and dumb’ Brits to smuggle cannabis from Southeast Asia to the UK and ruthlessly threatens them.
Zee – not her real name – works as a drug mule recruiter in the UK and ‘weekly’ flies broke young people to Thailand to collect ‘suitcases’ of marijuana to bring them back home.
They are promised a ‘quick’ payout and groomed with a free holiday before the dangerous reality of what they are doing sets in.
If they are caught, Zee says the gang washes their hands of them. She said: ‘Why would I feel bad? So what?’
In a Daily Mail exclusive clip of Channel 4‘s upcoming documentary Untold: Inside Thailand’s British Drug Gangs, Zee explains who her gang targets.
She told investigative journalist Tir Dhondy: ‘It’s just people who are young, dumb. Who’ve got no money. They come to us because they’ve heard their friends are doing it and they’re getting through.’
She added: ‘Just normal people, like yourself. It could be you.’
Once the prospective mules have been lured in, the grooming begins with what appears to be an all-expenses-paid ‘free holiday’ to Thailand.
Zee (pictured) said her gang grooms ‘young, dumb’ brits ‘who’ve got not money’ with free holidays and then threatens to kill them if they refuse to traffick drugs from Thailand to the UK
Channel 4’s documentary ‘Untold: Inside Thailand’s British Drug Gangs’ investigates every level of the criminal drugs trade with unprecedented access
Mule’s who get caught by the gang are discarded without care. Zee said: ‘Why would I feel bad? So what?’
However, this is where they will pick up the drugs to smuggle back home once the exotic jaunt is over.
Zee said: ‘We make sure they’re comfortable. We pay for everything.’
The mules get put up in a hotel and shown ‘a nice time’ by the gang, who promise ‘they’re getting paid after the holiday’.
Zee spoke from years of experience and recounted that ‘It’s then when we’re sending them back, that’s when they s*** themselves, then.
‘They know the risk. They’ve had a free holiday, and now they’re getting back home – but you better get the job done, you get me?’
She issued a chilling threat to mules who refused.
‘If you think you’re backing out now I’m gonna f****** kill you here in f****** Thailand.
‘I will chop you know what I’m saying?
‘You’re gonna go home with that suitcase. I don’t give a f*** if you don’t get through.’
Zee was asked if she feels guilty when she sees these young people get caught smuggling massive amounts of cannabis at international borders.
She said: ‘Do I f*** feel bad. Why would I feel bad? So what?’
Zee said there are ‘loads’ of people involved in her operation, each with their own role.
‘Packaging, getting the cases done, changing the cases over, booking the flights, bank transfers. We all get involved. It’s nationwide this s***.’
When asked why she thinks young people get involved with drug smuggling like this, Zee explained ‘Because it’s easy. Easy work and you get quick pay then you’re home, eating nice.’
Thailand enforces some of the strictest drug laws in the world. Drug traffickers caught there can face the death penalty.
Even trace amounts of illegal substances in random nightclub raids could lead to months of detention, heavy fines and imprisonment.
Violent threats from gangs or the cold, hard face of the law is the grim choice many Britons trapped in drug muling are stuck between.
Poppie Kudiersky, 22, avoided prison after being caught smuggling 28.5 kilogrammes of cannabis from Thailand to Manchester as she claimed a gang had threaten to murder her five-year-old son and burn her house down
George Wilson, 23, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, (pictured) is said to have received 9.15kg of methamphetamine from another Briton at a hotel in the red-light area of Bangkok on Monday evening
According to Thai police, Wilson was due to carry the narcotics through Thailand’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport and on to the UK
A gang threatened to kill the child of a young mother who tried to smuggle £285,000 worth of marijuana from Thailand to the UK in February 2024.
Poppie Kudiersky, 22, was arrested at Manchester Airport when customs officers discovered 28.5 kilogrammes of cannabis in two suitcases held by a companion she was travelling with.
She avoided a jail sentence after she claimed that she had received photos of criminals outside her home in Denton, Manchester, who threatened to burn it down and murder her five-year-old son.
She said she had accepted a ‘free holiday’ to Thailand on the basis she would return with cases filled with clothing purchased with stolen credit cards but was forced to smuggle the drug following the threats.
She was given two years in prison suspended for two years despite figures showing the number of airline passengers caught smuggling cannabis into the UK has skyrocketed by 3,625 per cent in just two years.
British public school boy George Wilson, 23, faces the death penalty in Thailand after he was allegedly caught smuggling 9.15 kilogrammes of methamphetamine.
The former pupil of the £70,000-a-year public school previously attended by Sarah Ferguson was paraded by Thai police alongside parcels of the drug when he was caught in October 2025.
The methamphetamine is alleged to have been hidden in a suitcase in 10 green foil bags beneath a pair of flipflops and a towel.
Influencer Ellie Crampsie was jailed for 16 months for trying to smuggle cannabis worth £150,000 through Edinburgh Airport – here she is pictured outside Edinburgh Sheriff Court
The social media influencer was found with 17 kilos of cannabis stashed in her luggage when she landed in Edinburgh on April 16 2025
Mr Wilson claimed he was given the drug by another Briton at a hotel in the red-light area of Bangkok during his two-week trip there.
Under Thai law, Category 1 narcotics includes heroin, methamphetamine, and other synthetic drugs.
Importing or exporting the substances carries a maximum punishment of the death penalty – though rarely used – followed by life in prison. Mitigating factors may help the sentence to be reduced to no less than 10 to 20 years.
Another young Brit was jailed for 16 months when she was caught attempting to smuggle £150,000 of cannabis into the UK from Thailand.
Influencer Ellie Crampsie, 23, from Glasgow, was found with 17 kilos of the Class B drug stashed in her luggage when she landed at Edinburgh Airport on April 16 2025.
She pleaded guilty but claimed she was forced into carrying the large drug haul by a former boyfriend and a sheriff accepted she had been ‘naive and potentially taken advantage of’.
