El Chapo's wife helped him run drug empire from jail, US court hears

Emma Coronel is not a big fish', experts say, but indictment accuses her of assisting dramatic jailbreak in 2015

The wife of the world's most notorious drug cartel boss, Joaquin El Chapo" Guzman, has appeared in court charged with helping him run his drug empire from jail, a day after she was arrested at Washington's international airport.

Emma Coronel Aispuro, a 31-year-old Mexican-American who married the drug kingpin in 2007 after he spotted her in a beauty pageant, is also accused of helping organise her husband's breathtaking jailbreak in 2015, which involved a mile-long tunnel leading from his prison shower and a motorbike adapted to run on rails from one end to the other.