A 23 year old Brit who was reportedly "jailed for life" in Dubai has been released, her mother has said.

Law student Mia O'Brien, from Huyton in Merseyside, was detained in Dubai in September following what her mother referred to as a "very stupid mistake".

Mum Danielle McKenna told how Mia O'Brien was held in Dubai's central prison after allegedly being found with 50 grams of cocaine in October last year.

"Mia has been given a life sentence over in Dubai and she is now in central prison," Danielle, 46, wrote on a now-deleted online fundraiser.

She added: "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."

However now Danielle has said that her daughter has been released. In an update on her Facebook , posted on December 3 , Dannielle announced: "My baby girl is coming home", adding: "Thank you so much everyone, am still in shock, am buzzing, can't wait to give her the tightest cuddle ever. She's coming home, she's coming home, my baby is coming home."

Mia was handed 25-year prison sentence after being convicted of drug possession in a one day trial held entirely in Arabic, according to campaign group Detained in Dubai. The group's founder Radha Stirling said: "Dubai police have a history of rushing to secure convictions without the rigorous evidentiary standards we expect in the UK.

"We’ve seen fabricated confessions, reliance on circumstantial evidence, and a disregard for due process. I would urge the public to withhold judgement. Mia’s case could be the latest in a long line of miscarriages of justice.”