A young British woman has been jailed for life in Dubai, her family revealed tonight.
Mia O'Brien, 23, from Huyton, Liverpool, 'made a very stupid mistake', according to her mother, who has launched a heartfelt plea on a fundraising site for help with travel and legal fees.
'Mia has been given a life sentence over in Dubai and she is now in central prison,' her mother Danielle McKenna, 46, wrote in the post.
'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.
