Donna Nelson: WA grandmother to serve six-year sentence after Tokyo court quashes appeal

Wa grandmother Donna Nelson, who struggled with drug smuggling convictions in Japan, rejected her appeal.

The 59 -year -old Perth was given a woman for six years for bringing 2kg meth to the country in January 2023 last year.

Mrs. Nelson had no idea that a romanticism was deceived by a deception and that she was a drug in her suitcase.

However, three appeal judges at Tokyo High School Court On Thursday, he decided that he would have to serve the rest of his sentence in a Japanese prison.

Nelson was tried in Japan last December after his shock arrest at Narita International Airport in January 2023, when he found drugs hidden in a wrong -based suitcase carried by customs officials.

The court was also fined one million yen of equivalent for $ 10,400.

Perth community leader and a one -time green political candidate always retained innocence and insisted that he was a victim of a romantic deception.

At the hearing, Nelson said that the man he believed to marry had no idea that he had hidden drugs in the case.

“I had no knowledge of methamphetamine in the trunk,” he said to the court.

“I was deceived by Kelly, whom I think of a marriage partnership.”

The court really acknowledged that he was a victim of a sophisticated romantic deception, but he found that he should be more suspicious.

Nelson and the legal team said that a man he met on a dating site in 2020, and then brought Tokyo from Laos to Tokyo.

The grandmother had Business Class flights under the suitcase Guise containing Meth for her.

His lawyers told him that he had a Nigerian business owner.

According to the prosecutors, he had to meet the man in Japan, but he never came.

Nelson was arrested on -site and was later accused of violating the control and customs laws of the stimuli.

Three of the five daughters of Ms. Nelson were in Tokyo to hear the court’s decision on Thursday.

Ms. Nelson’s family marked diplomatic efforts for Ms. Nelson to punish Mrs. Nelson in Australia the next May.

However, this can be complex and often lasting years of process, which includes the federal government, which is guaranteed to be successful.

Donna Nelson was taken from the court to a prison cell on Thursday, while the fraud was ‘Kelly’ in general.

Behind the bars under the strict conditions of a Japanese prison since his arrest.