He will serve a minimum of seven years at the city's Casuarina Prison before being eligible for parole, the court said. Grimwood, of Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, was arrested on 16 February at Perth airport after customs officials X-rayed his baggage, said Pat Law, a federal police agent in Perth. Before his arrest he had tried to claim his luggage was lost so he did not have to carry it through customs, but officers found 5kg of tablets in his baggage. He was originally sentenced to 18 years but it was reduced to 14 years because of his early plea. It's not an unusually heavy sentence.
Smuggling is a very serious issue.
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