A British law student has been given a life sentence in Dubai after being ‘busted at a party’, a prison cellmate has said.

Mia O’Brien, 24, from Huyton, Merseyside, was given the harsh sentence after being caught with 50 grams of cocaine in the United Arab Emirates city last October.

The law student at the University of Liverpool is now at Al-Awir central prison along with a British mum who told The Sun Mia was partying and having fun before police showed up.

Mia’s former cellmate told the outlet: ‘There was drugs at the party and she said to me “I took drugs.” Mia knew she was in big trouble but didn’t seem to think she would be treated as a dealer.’ She added that Mia, who visited Dubai on holiday and was there for only a few days before being arrested, maintained that she did not dea

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