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A Perth grandmother accused of drug smuggling has blown kisses to her daughters and grandchildren through tears on the first day of her trial in a Japanese court. Prominent Indigenous leader Donna Nelson, 58, was arrested in January last year after landing at Narita International Airport with allegedly 2kg of methamphetamine in her luggage.
Family’s heartfelt plea as beloved Perth grandmother goes on trial in Japan. On Monday, after an almost two-year wait for a trial, Nelson was led into a courtroom in Chiba — 40km east of Tokyo — flanked by two armed guards and handcuffed to a restraint around her waist. “I had no knowledge that there was methamphetamine in the luggage,” she told the court. “I was deceived by Kelly, a man who I was considering a marriage partnership with,” she said.
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