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The Guardian - AU
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Australian woman who claims she was love scam victim jailed for smuggling drugs into Japan

Donna Nelson
Donna Nelson. The Australian woman’s daughter said her mother thought she was coming to Japan ‘for her love story’. Photograph: National Justice Project

The jailing of an Australian woman in Japan is “really distressing” for her family, the federal government has acknowledged as it committed to doing all it could to help her.

The Australian federal health minister, Mark Butler, made the promise a day after Donna Nelson was sentenced to six years for smuggling methamphetamine into Tokyo in January 2023, despite her claims she had been the victim of an online romance scam.

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