Cousins allegedly hid drugs inside body

Troubled former AFL star Ben Cousins was allegedly carrying drugs inside his body when arrested at an airport in country WA.

Cousins, 33, flew back to Perth on Wednesday night after he was released on bail for possession with intent to sell or supply methamphetamine.

He had appeared that afternoon in Kalgoorlie Magistrates court via videolink from Esperance, 400km to the south, for breach of bail conditions following his arrest and release.

Cousins had tried to leave the coastal town and fly back to Perth in breach of his original bail conditions requiring him to stay in Esperance.

He was arrested again but his bail conditions were altered after his court appearance to allow him to be released to an address in Perth.

He will appear in Perth Magistrate's Court on Monday, April 2, and is required to report to police three times a week.

A confessed methamphetamine addict, Cousins had been attending a drug rehabilitation clinic in Esperance - called Teen Challenge - for the past month.

He had flown back to Perth to visit his partner and baby over the weekend, and was returning to Esperance on Tuesday night when two waiting undercover officers arrested and reportedly strip-searched him after he stepped off the plane at about 7.15pm.

The drugs were allegedly hidden inside his rectum.

Cousins is understood to have then had an argument with staff at the drug clinic when he returned after being charged, and was arrested again while trying to flee, after a staff member called police.

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