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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: An Australian Grandmother Was Charged With Drug Trafficking in Malaysia. She Just Escaped a Death Sentence [Watch (HLS stream): An Australian Grandmother Was Charged With Drug Trafficking in Malaysia. She Just Escaped a Death Sentence](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/FgKAhqd5.m3u8) (1:24)  _Published 2017-12-28. An Australian grandmother who was detained with more than a kilogram of crystal methamphetamine in Kuala Lumpur has been cleared of drug trafficking, a charge that in Malaysia carries a mandatory death penalty if convicted._ --- Jul 27, 2023 11:13 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Indonesia Sentences Frenchman to Death for Drug Smuggling](/video/jTadwC1n/) ### Indonesia Sentences Frenchman to Death for Drug Smuggling [Indonesia Firing Squad Executes 4 Drug Traffickers](/video/0rTzmT1B/) ### Indonesia Firing Squad Executes 4 Drug Traffickers [Malaysia Airlines by the numbers](/video/GlfVOgx3/) ### Malaysia Airlines by the numbers --- ## Transcript [ BLANK_AUDIO ] The court believe the testimony of Maria. In that, she was an innocent carrier. She was trick into carrying the bag. Because of what, we now call, the Internet scam. That Internet romance. Judge also said the circumstances at the airport itself was overwhelmingly in her favor because the judge described her as naive not merely innocent but naive person who because for the first she travel In that [ UNKNOWN ] and she did not have to go through the immigration. But she followed everybody and she went through immigration. Bearing in mind she was only a transit passenger. She does not have to go through immigration. If she did not go through the immigration she would not have to go through the customs checkpoint. And all this is almost as though she asked for trouble if she was a trafficker. But because she was not a trafficker, because she's an innocent carrier, tricked into carrying a bag she did all these innocently. Hi Maria. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"An Australian Grandmother Was Charged With Drug Trafficking in Malaysia. 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