Larnaca criminal court on Thursday sentenced a 42-year-old woman to 11 years in prison and a 59-year-old man to 10 after finding them guilty in a drug related case, police said.

The two were in a taxi that was stopped by anti-narcotics officers on November 13 last year after it left a parcel delivery company in Larnaca.

The taxi was searched and in the boot police found 18.7 kilos of cannabis in eight nylon bags inside two packages.