CHECKING in their bags before heading off on a trip of a lifetime around Europe, Katyna Baia and her partner, Jeanne Paolini, couldn't have been more excited.

But the last thing the couple, 40 & 44, expected was to be banged up in a cell, fighting to clear their names, when 43kg of cocaine worth £2.5million was discovered inside their suitcases.

The pair, from Brazil, had unknowingly been caught up in an elaborate criminal operation at São Paulo International Airport, led by two airport staff and two female "passengers" who dropped off bags full of drugs that weren't checked in.

Footage showed the moment the two airport staff members removed the couple’s checked-in bags from the carousel before taking off their name labels and putting them on the suitcases filled with drugs.

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