Manjola Cuni, 47, faced a possible 12-month jail sentence and had already spent two months in custody
An Italian citizen who claimed she helped bring a pregnant Albanian woman to Ireland to save her life has been cleared of people smuggling after a judge held she acted on "humanitarian" grounds.
Gardai questioned Cuni and found the missing woman's real Albanian passport and documents in her luggage. Her phone also showed they had been messaging each other. Ms Cuni claimed that she had met the single woman a couple of times and had been told she wanted to come to Ireland because she was pregnant. "I was helping as she is from a village in the mountains, and she will be killed," Ms Cuni claimed.
She contended she was confused when the pregnant woman did not go to the non-EU channel and was unaware that her passport was in Ms Cuni's baggage. GNIB detective Karen Barker accepted that she did not believe Ms Cuni did it for financial gain and was "not a criminal mastermind".
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