A 23-year-old British woman has been sentenced to life in prison in Dubai, her family revealed.

Mia O’Brien, from Huyton, Liverpool, “made a very stupid mistake,” according to her mother Danielle McKenna, who has launched an emotional fundraising plea to cover travel and legal costs.

“Mia has been given a life sentence over in Dubai and she is now in central prison,” her mother wrote in the GoFundMe post.

“As you can all probably imagine, as her mother I am absolutely devastated. I haven’t seen my daughter since last October,” she said.

“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.”

She

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