Donna Nelson sentenced to six years in prison after court finds her guilty of bringing methamphetamine into country
Donna Nelson. The Australian woman’s daughter said her mother thought she was coming to Japan ‘for her love story’.Donna Nelson. The Australian woman’s daughter said her mother thought she was coming to Japan ‘for her love story’.has sentenced an Australian woman to six years in prison after finding her guilty of smuggling methamphetamine into the country, ignoring her claims that she had been the victim of an online romance scam.
When she arrived in Japan, Nelson did not declare the bag as belonging to someone else, and wrote that she was in the country on business. One of Nelson’s daughters, Kristal Hilaire, told the court her mother was “a good person” during a hearing last month – the first time Hilaire and her sister had seen their mother since her arrest almost two years ago.
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