Donna Nelson, who claims she was love scam victim, jailed for smuggling drugs into Japan
by Guardian foreign staff and agencies from World news | The Guardian on (#6SPBE)
Donna Nelson sentenced to six years in prison after court finds her guilty of bringing methamphetamine into country
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The jailing of an Australian woman in Japan is really distressing" for her family, the federal government has acknowledged as it committed to doing all it could to help her.
The Australian federal health minister, Mark Butler, made the promise a day after Donna Nelson was sentenced to six years for smuggling methamphetamine into Tokyo in January 2023, despite her claims she had been the victim of an online romance scam.
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