The three women, Ana Palacios Expósito, 28, Estefani Pardo Puertolas, 18, Johanna Estefani Solís Jaramillo, 19, and a man, Felix Yagüe Abello, 39, all flew into the airport's South Terminal from the Dominican Republic on February 10.
Each had two pieces of carry-on luggage. These were searched by UK Border Agency officers who found the drugs inside their bags, wrapped in silver foil.
They had a wholesale value of more than £4 million, but if cut and sold on the street could have been worth in excess of £8 million.
All four were charged with importing a class A drug and they each pleaded guilty.
They were sentenced at Croydon Crown Court last Thursday.
Yagüe and Palacios, both from Barcelona, were sentenced to 11 years. Pardo, from Sant Boi de Llobregat, and Solís, from Guayas, were both sentenced to 10-year prison sentences.
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