Imagine posting lighthearted videos online only to wake up and find thousands of people flooding your page, convinced you’re locked up in Dubai for drug trafficking. That’s exactly what happened to British TikToker Mia O’Brien.

The social media creator, who shares her name with a 23-year-old law student recently sentenced in Dubai, has been swamped with comments from users mistaking her for the woman now serving time at Dubai Central Prison.

“U not in jail,” one commenter wrote under her latest TikTok . Another added, “Is this how Dubai jail looks like?”

The confusion stems from headlines about law student Mia O’Brien, from Liverpool, who was sentenced to 25 years behind bars and fined £100,000 (about $126,000) after Dubai police allegedly found 50 grams of cocaine in her apartment

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