LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former law student who was sentenced to 25 years in jail in Dubai for drug dealing told a fellow inmate she only took “a single line of cocaine” at a party.
Mia O’Brien was arrested in October last year after police found 50g of cocaine in a flat where she was at a party.
O’Brien was found guilty of possession on July 25 last year and imprisoned at Al Awir jail, the Telegraph reported.
O’Brien was arrested with a friend, known only as Emma, who tested negative for cocaine and was released without charge. Emma’s boyfriend was also arrested got the same 25-year jail term as Mia, The Sun reported.
New details have since come to light after a British mother who was held in the same prison told The Sun O’Brien said she only took one line of the drug and was not dealing.
“She said they were at a party and having fun and suddenly police turned up and put her in a car,” the unnamed mother told The Sun
“There was drugs at the party and she said to me ‘I took drugs’. Mia knew she was in big trouble but didn’t seem to think she would be treated as a dealer.
“She seemed to take the view that while she had taken coke, she wasn’t dealing drugs.
“That’s how she acted in the detention centre.
“If what she’s saying is true and all she has done is a line of cocaine, 25 years is a horrifically long sentence. She said she was visiting on holiday and had only been there a few days.”
Mia’s sentence came to light this month when her mum Danielle McKenna, of Huyton, Liverpool, launched a fundraiser to try to get the verdict overturned.
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