By Kingsley Kobo, AfricaNews
ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST, 6 May 2009: A five months pregnant Nigeria-born Briton, Samantha Orobator, 20, will face execution if found guilty at a hastily arranged trial in Laos next week, according to reports.
She was arrested at Wattay Airport in Laos last August for allegedly possessing 600g of heroin while on holiday travels. She became pregnant in jail and due to deliver in September, but a death sentence next week would change all.
Samantha has been held since her arrest at the notorious Phonthong prison, where inmates have complained of being beaten and abused.
She was born in Nigeria but moved with her parents to England at the age of eight and had since become a British citizen. She was a medical student at Kingston University.
