LAW scholar Mia O’Brien may very well be languishing in a hellhole Dubai jail till 2050 for having simply “a single line of cocaine”, we are able to reveal.
A British mum held alongside Mia, 24, instructed The Solar: “She stated they had been at a celebration and having enjoyable and all of the sudden police turned up and put her in a automotive.
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“There was medication on the celebration and she or he stated to me ‘I took medication’.
“Mia knew she was in large bother however didn’t appear to assume she could be handled as a vendor.
“She appeared to take the view that whereas she had taken coke, she wasn’t dealing medication.
“That’s how she acted within the detention centre.
“If what she’s saying is true and all she has performed is a line of cocaine, 25 years is a horrifically lengthy sentence.
“She stated she was visiting on vacation and had solely been there a couple of days.”
Mia was arrested together with a British feminine pal and her pal’s boyfriend when cops discovered 50g of cocaine within the flat final October.
On July 25 she was discovered responsible after a one-day trial held in Arabic.
She is now at Al Awir jail, after months within the infamous Al Barsha detention centre.
Her former cellmate — detained for leaving the scene of a automotive accident and launched after paying a £3,000 effective — added: “Mia had fallen out along with her good friend as she stated it was the boyfriend who had the cocaine.
“Her drawback was that they’d all been arrested and Mia had it in her system.
“Her good friend didn’t so she was launched and is again within the UK. Mia thinks she will need to have stitched her as much as get dwelling.”
The mum added of Al Barsha: “There isn’t any mild and the bogs are vile. One space is full of people that know they’ve been caught doing one thing and are going to be jailed for a very long time.”
Mia’s plight solely got here to mild this month when her mum Danielle McKenna, 46, of Huyton, Liverpool, launched a fundraiser to attempt to get the decision overturned.
Mia’s good friend, recognized solely as Emma, examined unfavourable for cocaine and was launched with out cost.
Her boyfriend obtained the identical 25-year jail time period as Mia.
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