Tag: Physics Professor Paul Frampton

• Tuesday, May 27th 2014 - 08:48 UTC

  UK physics professor fired from US university for conviction in Argentina on drugs

  

  University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill has fired the 70-year-old physics professor who was arrested in 2012 after flying to Argentina to meet the woman who he thought was a former Miss Bikini World and instead was arrested by drug agents after getting entangled in a scheme to smuggle two kilos of cocaine.

• Sunday, December 9th 2012 - 20:04 UTC

  British scientist sentenced in Argentina after falling into drug smuggling by honey trap

  

  Currently confined to a two bedroom flat in a Buenos Aires city neighbourhood, just a few blocks away from the National Congress building, is Professor Paul Frampton, 69, from Kidderminster, who was recently sentenced in Argentina to four years and eight month imprisonment on drugs smuggling charges.