Sydney grandmother Maria Elvira Pinto Exposto has won her appeal against a death sentence for drug trafficking in Malaysia and will be freed after nearly five years in jail and 18 months on death row.
Poor woman already been banged up for 5 years,living on death row..I can't even imagine how that would have felt...
So this woman didn’t know she was duped into carrying drugs: “But prosecutors argued ‘Ignorance is not a defence.’ Harsh & mandatory penalties for drug trafficking were introduced in south-east Asia after intense lobbying by the United States amid its war on drugs.” Priceless.
Gotta keep that smack train runnin'
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