MY HEART BLEEDS

Samantha Orobator, a mere 20 years of age, has been returned to the UK from Laos to serve her life term for smuggling drugs.

Obviously Laos isn’t totally heartless.

In a statement on her arrival in the UK she told the media: “I am enormously relieved and happy to be back on British soil. It has been an unimaginable nightmare.”

Is that the same nightmare that would have been endured by those who used the drugs she was carrying?

She escaped the death penalty because she became pregnant in an all-female jail.

So the child wasn’t conceived from a loving relationship but the need of Samantha Orobator to escape her terrible fate.

I expect in years to come her child will look back on her life and declared: “It has been an unimaginable nightmare.”

My heart truly bleeds…

MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH – 1

I do not believe in the death penalty so would not wish to see the British woman, Samantha Orobator, shot for smuggling heroin in to Laos.

It is said that because she is pregnant she will escape that fate.

She was arrested in August and is five-months pregnant so you do not have to be a mathematician, which I am not, to be able to work out that she entered that state whilst in jail.

As she and her lawyers have not cried rape – I presume her becoming pregnant was love or lust behind bars – or perhaps a cynical attempt to escape the firing squad.

I agree the 20-year-old must have a fair trial and access to a legal team.

If she is innocent – then she should go free in to the arms of her distraught mother in Dublin.

If she is guilty – then they should lock her up and throw away the key.

No death sentence and I say that in the full knowledge that the 1.5 lbs of heroin she is accused of smuggling would have spelt a death sentence – sooner or later – for an addict or addicts.