Mother flies to Laos for daughter’s trial

THE Ireland-based mother of a pregnant woman facing trial in Laos for alleged heroin smuggling is flying to the Asian country today to be with her daughter.

Samantha Orobator, whose mother Jane and three sisters live in Dublin, will be tried on charges of drug-smuggling, and is only avoiding a possible death sentence because she fell pregnant while in custody.

Yesterday, a British legal rights agency said it expected the trial to begin today or tomorrow, despite its representative still not having met the 20-year-old Briton.