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07/08/2009
Jailed Pregnant Drug Smuggler Returns
A pregnant woman who was jailed for life in Laos for trafficking heroin has arrived back in the UK.
Samantha Orobator, 20, from Peckham, south London, was handed over to British officials in the capital, Vientiane by the Lao authorities on Thursday in what they said was a "humanitarian gesture".
She arrived at Heathrow airport at around 6.30am.
The 20-year-old was arrested in possession of heroin in August last year as she tried to leave Laos for Australia.
She escaped the death penalty as she became pregnant in jail and will now complete her sentence in the UK. Her child is due next month.
It has been reported that a second British prisoner, John Watson, 47, is the father of her child. In a statement read out on Orobator's behalf by the local prosecutor, she said she had artificially inseminated herself while in prison using Watson's semen.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said they are continuing to work for the transfer for Watson, from Bradford, West Yorkshire, who was also imprisoned in Laos for drug smuggling.
(JM/BMcC)
Samantha Orobator, 20, from Peckham, south London, was handed over to British officials in the capital, Vientiane by the Lao authorities on Thursday in what they said was a "humanitarian gesture".
She arrived at Heathrow airport at around 6.30am.
The 20-year-old was arrested in possession of heroin in August last year as she tried to leave Laos for Australia.
She escaped the death penalty as she became pregnant in jail and will now complete her sentence in the UK. Her child is due next month.
It has been reported that a second British prisoner, John Watson, 47, is the father of her child. In a statement read out on Orobator's behalf by the local prosecutor, she said she had artificially inseminated herself while in prison using Watson's semen.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said they are continuing to work for the transfer for Watson, from Bradford, West Yorkshire, who was also imprisoned in Laos for drug smuggling.
(JM/BMcC)
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