{"id":5065,"date":"2025-09-09T15:59:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=5065"},"modified":"2025-09-09T15:59:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:59:20","slug":"british-student-jailed-for-life-after-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=5065","title":{"rendered":"British student jailed for life after making"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>British Student Jailed in Dubai<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mia O\u2019Brien, 23, from Liverpool, has been sentenced to life in prison in Dubai after what her mother described as \u201ca very stupid mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is currently held in Dubai\u2019s central prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Family\u2019s Reaction<\/strong><br>Her mother, Danielle McKenna, said: \u201cMia is only 23 years old and has never done a bad thing in her life\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>unfortunately got mixed up in the wrong so-called friends and made a very stupid mistake and is now paying the price.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She added, \u201cAs her mother, I am absolutely devastated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I haven\u2019t seen my daughter since last October.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Unclear Charges<\/strong><br>The specific crime has not been confirmed, though drug-related offences are often punished with life sentences in the UAE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Official Response<\/strong><br>The Foreign Office said: \u201cWe are supporting the family of a British woman detained in the UAE and are in contact with the local authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Student Jailed in Dubai Mia O\u2019Brien, 23, from Liverpool, has been sentenced to life in prison in Dubai after what her mother described as \u201ca very stupid mistake.\u201d She is currently held in Dubai\u2019s central prison. Family\u2019s ReactionHer mother, Danielle McKenna, said: \u201cMia is only 23 years old and has never done a bad&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5067,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065\/revisions\/5067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}