Aussie gran escapes drug death sentence

AUSTRALIAN grandmother Maria Elvira Pinto Exposto has sensationally escaped the death penalty after a Malaysian court yesterday found her not guilty of drug trafficking.

The 54-year-old mother of three and grandmother from Sydney’s west was calm as the not guilty verdict was handed down in the Shah Alam High Court in Kuala Lumpur.

The court accepted her case, that she had been conned by an online love scam and had no idea the drugs were in her bag, setting her free and into the arms of her family who were in court.

Justice Ghazali Cha said the defence had raised reasonable doubt and that Mrs Exposto had let her love for a man she met online overshadow everything else, including her own family and future.

“The conclusion is I agree that the accused did not know about the drugs concealed in the bag and the accused is an innocent carrier. Next, I am satisfied that the accused defence is not an afterthought,” Justice Cha said in his judgment.

And he said that the prosecution had failed to provide any CCTV images of the arrest.

Mrs Exposto had faced one charge of drug trafficking under Malaysia’s Dangerous Drugs Act, which carries the mandatory death penalty for anyone convicted of trafficking more than 50 grams of illegal drugs.

Two members of her family were in court for the verdict, along with a representative

At the centre of it all is Mr Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, who repeatedly clashed with Mr Bannnon, the former investment banker and cofounder of Breitbart News.

He used the interview to slam the couple, referring to them disparagingly as “Javanka”.

He also blamed them for bad decisions made in Mr Trump’s first year in office. from the Australian High Commission and a legal team of five lawyers.

The judge ordered Mrs Exposto to be referred to immigration officials for the purposes of deportation as her passport had expired.

Mrs Exposto was arrested

Ms Trump believed Mr Bannon was behind the leaks damaging her father’s presidency, and their relationship deteriorated so badly Mr Trump called a meeting in an attempt to defuse the situation, according to Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman.

Things soon turned ugly as Mr Bannon and the President’s daughter let loose at each other. three years ago with the drugs in her bag when she was transiting through Kuala Lumpur airport en route to Melbourne from Shanghai and has lived under the shadow of death ever since.

Mrs Exposto and her lawyers argued that she was the

“She’s the queen of leaks,” Mr Bannon reportedly said.

“You’re a f...ing liar!” Ms Trump fired back.

The interview revealed how toxic the relationship became — and how much contempt Mr Bannon has for “Javanka”.

He said it was clear Mr Kushner, whom the President gave a wide portfolio of responsibilities, was in way over his head. victim of an online love scam and that she had no idea the 1.5kg of methamphetamine was in the backpack she was asked to bring to Australia for a US servicemen she had met online.

During her trial, she told the court she had fallen for a

“He doesn’t know anything about the hobbits or the deplorables,” Mr Bannon said, referring to Mr Trump’s voters. “The railhead of all bad decisions is the same railhead: Javanka.”

He said Mr Kushner’s decision to hold meetings with Russians during the election campaign might have given the impression the Trump camp sought Moscow’s help. man she met online called Captain Daniel Smith, who she believed was a US soldier serving in Afghanistan.

Mrs Exposto said that in September 2013 he had proposed marriage to her when her own marriage in Australia was going “a bit sour”.