Influencer nurse keeps licence despite being caught smuggling £160,000 worth of cannabis into UK

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An influencer nurse has kept her licence despite being caught smuggling £160,000 worth of cannabis into Britain.Levi Whalley, 32, was stopped in her tracks carrying more than 35kg of the Class-B drug at Birmingham Airport alongside her friend Sophie Bannister.The Nursing and Midwifery Council had sought to have the mother-of-one from Blackburn struck off the register.However, an NMC tribunal ruled that removing her licence would be "unduly punitive" given the "very difficult" personal circumstances she faced at the time of the offence.Whalley, who posts images of her travels to nearly 45,000 Instagram followers, instead received a 12-month suspension.Her suitcase alone held 38 wrapped packages weighing 19kg.Border Force officers discovered the drugs in their luggage in December 2023 after the pair claimed they were returning from a "shopping trip" in New York.Whalley's phone and passport were confiscated, and West Midlands Police referred her case to the NMC.found guilty of drug...

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