Modou Adams was sentenced to six years and eight months by a court in Peru after being stopped and searched at the Jorge Chavez International Airport on 30 September.

About 2.9kg of cocaine was found hidden inside a suitcase, which was bound for Paris before being sent onto London.

The drugs were worth an estimated £300,000, according to reports.

The 25-year-old pleaded guilty to the drug trafficking charge and was fined about £1,500.

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Peru's Supreme Court posted an edited image of the online influencer behind bars on social media after his sentencing.

Posting under the name @boywholives on Instagram, Adams shared photos of himself at Machu Picchu - a historic site set in the Andes Mountains - four weeks ago.