A BRITISH woman detained in Dubai was given life in prison after she was caught with 50g of cocaine, her mum has revealed.
Mia O’Brien, from Huyton, Merseyside, was handed a 25 year prison sentence after she was found with the drugs which have a street value in the UK of £2,500.
GoFundMeMia O’Brien faces the next 25 years in prison in Dubai.[/caption]
GoFundMeJailed Brit Mia O’Brien with her devastated mother Danielle McKenna (right)[/caption]
GoFundMeLaw student Mia got ‘mixed up with the wrong so-called friends’ while at university, according to her mum[/caption]
Her family this week issued a plea for help saying she had “never done a bad thing in her life” and had made a “very stupid mistake.
But now her heartbroken mum Danielle McKenna, 46, has revealed new details about her jail term.
She revealed that Mia was caught with 50 grams of the Class A drug in the Middle East last October.
And the Liverpool University law student was convicted by a judge in a one day hearing on July 25.
Mia was also fined a staggering £100,000 by the court before being sent to the hellish Dubai Central Prison, also known as Al-Awir.
The notorious lock-up has been dubbed the affluent city’s version of infamous jail Alcatraz.
“Mia feels she has destroyed her life as she wanted to be a lawyer or solicitor, ” Danielle told the Daily Mail.
“I speak to her but she can’t say too much on the phone.”
AFPThe Al-Awir prison is notorious for facing dozens of horror allegations of abuse, torture and rape from former inmates[/caption]
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