Maria Elvira Pinto Exposto's lawyer is confident she will receive a full acquittal. FMTNews MariaElviraPintoExposto
PETALING JAYA: Maria Elvira Pinto Exposto, the Australian grandmother sentenced to death last year for trafficking in drugs, will know next week if she escapes the gallows.
Exposto was arrested in December 2014 at the Kuala Lumpur airport with 1.1kg of crystal methamphetamine stitched into the lining of a bag given to her by a man in Shanghai.She said she had been fooled into carrying the bag after travelling to China to see someone she met online called “Captain Daniel Smith”, who had claimed to be a US serviceman.
In December 2017, the High Court in Shah Alam found her not guilty. The following year, the Court of Appeal overturned the ruling.
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