Laos

PREGNANT PRISONER IN UK CUSTODY

August 6, 2009

Via BBC News A pregnant Briton jailed for smuggling heroin in Laos has been handed to UK Ministry of Justice officials, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said. The transfer took place in Vientiane, capital of Laos. Samantha Orobator will now return to the UK to give birth and serve out her life sentence in Britain. Orobator, 20, from Peckham, south London, was caught with 1.5lb (680g) of heroin in August last year. She avoided Laos’s mandatory death penalty because of her pregnancy. […]

PREGNANT BRITAIN SENTENCED TO LIFE IN JAIL FOR DRUG SMUGGLING

June 3, 2009

Is her age accurate? This woman looks older than twenty. Via BBC News A pregnant British woman accused of smuggling heroin has been found guilty in Laos and sentenced to life in jail. Samantha Orobator, 20, from south London, was caught with 1.5lb (680g) of the drug at Wattay airport in the capital, Vientiane, last August. Her trial had been delayed while Laotian officials tried to find out how she became pregnant in prison. She would have faced a mandatory death sentence, […]