A Brit has opened up on the horrors of living in a Dubai jail as a 23-year-old student was handed a life sentence . Mia O'Brien, from Huyton in Merseyside, was sent to the notorious Al-Awir prison in Dubai after allegedly being caught with cocaine in her flat.

David Haigh, another Brit who is all too familiar with the harsh punishments meted out in Dubai, spent nearly two years incarcerated in the United Arab Emirates .

Recalling his initial arrest, he said: "They took me off and I was walking and walking towards what I could smell as a growing kind of nasty smell. Horrible kind of sweaty dirty... we are going through these big double doors. It was just so hot, there was no natural light, dirty, smelly."

He was then informed that he would be held in the cell until "tomorrow", bu

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