A 23 year old British woman has been handed a life sentence in Dubai following what her mother describes as a “very stupid mistake” in the notoriously strict nation.
Law student Mia O’Brien is currently being held in Dubai’s central prison whilst her mother Danielle McKenna, 46, frantically attempts to raise money for traveland legal costs to assist her daughter out of this dire predicament. Writing on the fundraising page, Danielle explained:
“Mia has been given a life sentence over in Dubai and she is now in central prison. As you can all probably imagine, as her mother I am absolutely devastated. I haven’t seen my daughter since last October.
“Mia is only 23 years old and has never done a bad thing in her life. This is a young girl, who went to university to do law, and unfortunately got mixed up in the wrong so-called friends and made a very stupid mistake and is now paying the price.
