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woman in her late forties abandoned

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date, she's never been identified.

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Jane Doe, a person without a

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unknown body. Serov

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and the hope that someone listening to

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piece them together. Say

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details are dark and murky, and

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they can make investigations extremely tough.

4:36

After all, finding someone with information is hard

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enough across all of the episodes in this

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series. But finding

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someone with information when there are criminals at

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play, that's a whole extra challenge. Nevertheless,

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Locate International believes that in most

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cases, someone may want to speak

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change, and loyalties can fade. Perhaps

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of a sent hellier woman who still

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remains nameless. She

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may have been involved in criminality, but

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that doesn't mean she doesn't deserve an identity.

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So here we go. Clue number one.

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The hospital visit. The

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hospital visit. On

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the 29th of May 2006, a nurse

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is arriving for her shift at Sent

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Hellier Hospital in Sutton, South West London.

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As she heads for the doors of A&E, she notices a woman

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sat on the wall to her right. The

6:01

woman is doubled over and clutching her stomach.

6:05

She seems disorientated, her eyes glassy,

6:07

her skin covered in sweat. She's

6:10

clearly in a great deal of pain. The

6:19

alarm is quickly raised and the only priority

6:21

is to get the woman inside the hospital

6:23

and under the attention of medics. The

6:30

nurses rally around, a wheelchair is wheeled

6:32

outside and the woman is transferred into

6:34

a bay for assessment. Doctors

6:38

rush in, closing the curtain swiftly behind

6:41

them, but the woman is fading from

6:43

consciousness, her eyes rolling backwards in her

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head. Before

6:49

she passes out, the nurses manage to obtain

6:51

her name, Mary Kofi,

6:53

she says. There

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was no identification papers or documentation

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in her possession, this

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name is never verified. And

7:04

as they give her some pain relief, they also ask

7:06

for her date of birth, which she offers

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up as the 27th of April 1957, making her 49 years

7:10

of age. But

7:16

then, nothing. The

7:18

St. Helier woman says nothing more, and

7:21

she's said nothing since. Over

7:29

the next few hours, she remains unconscious

7:31

as doctors try to save her life. Her

7:35

organs are shutting down, monitors

7:37

bleep sporadically as she's observed in

7:39

the emergency room, but scans reveal

7:41

that the St. Helier woman, or

7:43

Mary, has ingested 61 packages

7:46

of cocaine, which are releasing

7:48

huge and ultimately lethal amounts of the

7:50

drug into her system. She

7:55

dies within hours, and due

7:57

to the manner of her death, a criminal investigation

7:59

is lost. launched. It's

8:01

not every day that someone is admitted to hospital with 61

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packs of cocaine in their stomach, and

8:06

police knew that others must be involved.

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It was Detective Inspector Mike Smith who

8:15

released a statement to the media to

8:17

encourage anyone to come forward with information.

8:21

He said, while still unconscious,

8:23

the woman told hospital staff she had blown

8:26

in from Ghana to Heathrow earlier that morning

8:28

and that she was carrying a large amount

8:30

of cocaine in her stomach. He

8:33

went on to add, it's likely she

8:35

was picked up at some point and dropped at the

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hospital once she became ill. But

8:42

picked up by who? No one

8:44

lives in a vacuum and people certainly don't deal

8:46

in the drugs industry in a vacuum. St

8:49

Helier Woman was known to people. In

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this instance, her associates, also

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associated with drug importation, smugglers.

8:59

Someone or a number of people had been

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involved in giving her the drugs, instructing her

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to fly, and been waiting to collect them

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or her on arrival. More

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than that, it's likely that at least one of

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those smugglers had helped her reach a hospital when

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it was apparent that her smuggling operation was

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going drastically wrong. After

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checking flight logs in and out of Heathrow International,

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detectives confirmed that the St Helier Woman had

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indeed flown in from Ghana. But

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there was a possibility she was due to get

9:32

a connecting onward flight to Amsterdam. Were

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her handlers in the UK or were they overseas?

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Tragically, the St Helier Woman died

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alone and in drastic pain after

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being abandoned at the hospital. So

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an investigation began into the circumstances of

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her life and how it had led

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to her premature death. It

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isn't a stretch to deduce that she had likely experienced much

9:57

hardship of some kind, which led to a very serious and

9:59

tragic death. led her to smuggle the drugs in the first

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place. And

10:04

while this could happen to anyone, her case

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highlights how especially dangerous this is for women

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from countries such as Ghana, who

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were trafficked and exploited in the hope of a

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better life. Did

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the Centhelia woman have family back in Ghana?

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Or was she alone? Was

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she really called Mary? Investigators

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quickly realized that the people who interacted with

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Centhelia woman in the final hours of her

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life would be unlikely to come

10:31

forward, as it would mean incriminating themselves

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in the international drugs trade. But

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they were also keen to stress that any

10:40

information would be treated in confidence. Information

10:43

which could identify the Centhelia woman could

10:45

even be issued anonymously. And

10:48

authorities urge those who know something to speak

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until that happens, we have to rely on the

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other clues available to us. Which

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on the date of birth given by Centelia Woman,

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her age would have been around 49. Though

12:53

she certainly looked more youthful, around 40.

12:59

She was 5 foot 10 inches in height and of heavy

13:01

build. She was Afro-Caribbean

13:03

with black skin and dark brown wavy

13:05

hair bulked out with extensions which had

13:07

slight tints of red in them. She'd

13:11

entered the hospital wearing a large wrap scarf

13:13

which she draped around her frame, a

13:16

black background with bold red flowers and gold

13:18

swirls around the neck and looping around the

13:20

floral design. She

13:23

also had a matching handkerchief. And

13:26

both the wrap and the scarf had the logo

13:28

for a brand called Argent Swallow. Was

13:31

this a Ghanaian brand? Something

13:34

she brought with her on her final tragic journey?

13:37

Or could this clue point to a different scenario?

13:41

A product which is available in the UK and

13:43

suggests the woman spent more than just a few

13:45

hours on UK soil. Finally,

13:51

on her feet she wore a pair of black sandals. But

13:55

other than the clothes on her back and on her

13:57

feet, there was nothing else on

13:59

her person. to identify her, no

14:02

luggage or personal possessions. Investigators

14:04

were baffled. Where

14:07

was her passport? She'd undoubtedly had

14:09

one in order to board her flight from

14:11

Ghana. And

14:14

where were her personal possessions such as money

14:16

or a forward address or even a bag

14:18

of more clothes to wear? Had

14:21

she abandoned them at the airport, in pain and

14:24

in search of medical help? Or

14:26

had they been kept and claimed by the people

14:28

who met her on her arrival? Investigators

14:32

are desperate to know because

14:35

someone does know and they believe

14:37

the Centalia woman will have a family

14:39

and friends wondering what happened to her.

14:43

So as you go about your day to day business, don't

14:46

forget the case of the Centalia woman, the

14:49

name she gave to the doctors, Mary

14:51

Kofi, her potential connection

14:53

to Ghana and her bold decorative

14:56

scarf. Could you hold

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the missing piece of the puzzle which might

15:00

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