GoFundMe for woman jailed in Dubai for ‘stupid mistake’ pulled at £700 | World | News
For a 23 -year -old British woman in Dubai, an online donation for the ‘Life Prison’ was deleted for violating one of the instructions of the platform. Gofundme said it was forbidden to collect funds for the legal defense of some alleged crimes ”.
Liverpool, Mia O’Brien’s family from Magson, says he was held in Dubai’s central prison. They didn’t explain what he was convicted, but they said, “He made a very stupid mistake”. His 46 -year -old mother Danielle McKenna wrote on the step -up page: “Mia was sentenced to life imprisonment in Dubai and now in the central prison.
“As you can probably imagine, I have definitely ruined as her mother. I haven’t seen my daughter since last October.
“Mia is only 23 years old and did nothing bad in her life. This is a young girl who goes to university to make a law and unfortunately made a very stupid mistake and now pays the price.
“So all I want, even if you can forgive everything you can be a spare, even if it is 1 £, I can greatly help and be grateful to forever. Thank you very much.”
The donor had a target of £ 1,600 and collected almost £ 700 before it was removed, Sun.
A Gofundme spokesman told the newspaper: “He was removed for violating the 9 periods of the prohibited behavioral department in our service conditions.
“Period 9, for the legal defense of the alleged crimes for prohibit the funding in Gofundme.”
In a later article about Gofundme, McKenna added before the abolition of the donation collection process: orum I just want to thank everyone for donations so far, this money will be used to send it to my daughter Mia, and maybe we have not seen Mia since the last October.
Mother said this Online mail His daughter was “that time passed”.
“After receiving life sentence, he was transferred to another prison. This was a great shock.”
Although O’Brien is not convicted of crimes, living conditions can be given for crimes such as drug trafficking and possession, murder or murder and human trafficking.
A FCDO spokesman: “We support the family of a British woman detained in the UAE and in contact with local authorities.” He said.
FCDO warns that “zero tolerance for crimes related to drugs” on the advice of travel for Dubai. “Trade, smuggling, illegal drug use and penalties (including quantities) are serious.”
