MIA O’Brien’s mum has launched a recent fundraiser to go to the Brit legislation scholar in a infamous Dubai jail – whereas additionally lashing out at on-line “haters”.
Danielle McKenna arrange a brand new web page on Christian fundraising website GiveSendGo after GoFundMe suddenly pulled her earlier appeal.
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Mia, from Huyton, Merseyside, was handed a 25-year sentence in July after being caught with 50g of cocaine – price round £2,500 within the UK – inside her Dubai house final October.
The 23-year-old was additionally slapped with a £100,000 superb earlier than being locked up in Al-Awir Central Prison, dubbed the Gulf state’s “Alcatraz”.
Her devastated mum insists her daughter is innocent, branding the case a “miscarriage of justice” and claiming Mia had merely made “a really silly mistake” whereas visiting a pal and her boyfriend.
On her new fundraiser – dubbed the “Mia Rose fund” – Danielle wrote: “Hello, as everybody is aware of by now, Mia has been given a life sentence in Dubai, and is now in central jail.
“I’m asking in your assist, in order that household can recover from to Dubai to go to Mia, as we haven’t seen her since final October, and it could additionally actually assist with every other charges that we could face a protracted the best way.
“Even when it’s solely a £1 it might assist us massively. Thanks a lot.”
The goal has been set at £5,000 – however by Wednesday morning simply £55 had been raised.
Sharing the hyperlink on Facebook, Danielle blasted her critics, saying: “That is my little woman, my first born and solely daughter, I’d and can battle for my youngsters ‘until the day I die.
“So to all you haters, let’s hope Karma doesn’t come knocking in your door, your nasty feedback don’t damage or have an effect on my life, so that you received’t get a response or response from me.
“And if that’s what you are after, perhaps get in contact with the Samaritans assist line when you’re that unhappy and lonely. A lot like to you all.”
The brand new enchantment comes after GoFundMe axed the household’s first fundraiser – which had raised almost £700 of its £1,600 objective – for “violating pointers”.
A GoFundMe spokesperson informed The Solar: “It was eliminated as a result of it violates Time period 9 of the Prohibited Conduct part in our Phrases of Service.
“Time period 9 prohibits elevating funds on GoFundMe for the authorized defence of sure alleged crimes.”
Livid on the choice, Danielle beforehand stated: “I’m going to arrange my very own, as they [GoFundMe] are nitpicking at every part.”
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Mia, a Liverpool College law scholar who dreamed of changing into a solicitor, is now locked up with six different ladies and reportedly compelled to sleep on the ground with solely a mattress and pillow.
Her mum claims situations are dire: “The jail situations are horrendous.
“There are not any workers actually and he or she has to bang on a giant door if she wants something. She’s seen fights and stated she has been actually scared.”
Danielle says Mia usually breaks down on the cellphone, crying and pleading for her mum’s forgiveness.
The household are actually clinging to hope of an enchantment or clemency deal that might deliver Mia again to the UK.
Danielle stated: “Mia is being actually courageous about it however she actually misses her two younger brothers who’re aged simply 5 and 7.
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Inside ‘Dubai’s model of Alcatraz’
MIA O’Brien has been locked up within the Al-Awir Central Jail in Dubai.
The jail is used for each female and male convicts with them being seperated as soon as they step by means of the chilling gates.
Girls make up one of many 4 blocks inside the massive jail, in accordance with the British Government website.
Horror tales from inmates who’ve beforehand been locked up and people from the households of Brits nonetheless trapped behind bars paint a disturbing image of Al-Awir.
In 2012, Karl Williams was imprisoned for a year after police discovered medicine within the boot of his rent automotive.
He in contrast the Al-Awir jail to the “Dubai model of Alcatraz” throughout his sentence.
In his memoir, he recalled seeing inmates being stabbed to dying in violent clashes that weren’t stopped by guards.
In a press release, he stated that his testicles had been electrocuted whereas he was interrogated by police.
“They pulled down my trousers, unfold my legs and began to electrocute my testicles,” he wrote within the assertion.
“It was unbelievably painful. I used to be so scared. I began to imagine that I used to be going to die in that room.”
Their attorneys additionally stated that the lads have been compelled to signal paperwork in Arabic at gunpoint.
Karl claimed Russian gangsters dominated the jail wards and allegedly used HIV-positive inmates to rape and intentionally infect others as a type of punishment.
A minimum of 4 HIV-positive prisoners at Al-Awir have been allegedly denied remedy as much as 5 months, in accordance with one other surprising report by the Human Rights Watch.
British footballer Billy Hood made similar accusations as he stated prisoners have been tortured and left to die from ailments.
His claims have been repeated in 2021 by 60-year-old Albert Douglas who informed The Solar On-line prisoners are raped, tortured and even starved by the merciless guards.
Dubai’s jail system and authorities deny all of the claims.
“She simply desires to come back residence. I would like her residence too – she’s my solely daughter.”
However questions continue to swirl around Mia’s case.
She was arrested alongside a pal and the pal’s boyfriend, but solely her title has been made public.
The timing has additionally raised eyebrows, together with her ordeal saved beneath wraps for months till her household went public with an enchantment.
And whereas prosecutors stated 50g of cocaine was present in her house, her mum insists her daughter was merely “caught up in it” — leaving doubts over who actually owned the drugs.
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