A British law student has been sentenced to life imprisonment in Dubai after being ‘caught at a party’, a prison companion said.
Mia O’Brien, 24, from Huyton, Merseyside, received the hard punishment after he was caught in the United Arab Emirates City last October with 50 grams of cocaine in the United Arab Emirates.
The law student at the University of Liverpool is now in the central prison of Al-Awir together with a British mother who told that the sun was partying and had fun before the police appeared.
Mia’s former cellmate told the outlet: ‘There was drugs at the party and she said to me:’ I took drugs. “Mia knew that she was in major problems, but didn’t seem to think that she would be treated as a dealer. ‘
She added that Mia, who visited Dubai on vacation and was only a few days before he was arrested, claimed that she had not applied drugs.
“If what she says is true and everything she has done is a line of cocaine, 25 years old is a terribly long sentence,” said the cell mate.
Mia was convicted by a judge during a day long trial in Arabic on July 25.
It is understood that Mia was arrested with her boyfriend, and her boyfriend’s boyfriend, who also received a life sentence, who can last up to 25 years in the VAE.
The cell mate claims that Mia and her boyfriend had dropped out and said that the boyfriend was in the possession of class A medicine.
She said her friend returned to the UK after testing negative on cocaine and had released without a charge.
The British mother who was held in the same prison described the prison as ‘mean’ and with ‘no light’.
Mia’s mother, Danielle McKenna, founded two fundraisers to help pay for the legal aid of her daughter and for a family member to visit her.
Both were removed, however, after they were not complied with website rules that prohibits campaigns for funds for the defense of ‘certain crimes’.
Her mother previously unveiled during a visit to the VAE, Mia was now ‘the price paid’ after being ‘mixed in the wrong so -called friends’.
In addition to a lifespan, the mother unveiled in a video a few months ago, Mia also received a fine of 500,000 Dirhams.
Dubai has a zero tolerance policy in relation to drugs, where visitors are even prosecuted for substances found in their blood.
Phrases vary from a three -month prison sentence and a fine for even the smallest violations dead.
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