A Perth grandmother has lost her appeal to overturn a six-year drug trafficking sentence after a Japanese court on Thursday announced its findings in the 59-year-old’s last bid for freedom.

Donna Nelson was arrested at Narita Airport, 50 kilometres west of Tokyo, in January 2023 after customs officials found about two kilograms of methamphetamine in a suitcase she was carrying.

Perth grandmother Donna Nelson.

Nelson has maintained she was the victim of a Nigerian scam and that her online lover “Kelly” had arranged for her to bring the suitcase from Laos because he told her he was a fashion designer in Japan, and he wanted to sell the case in one of his shops.

While finding her guilty on drug trafficking charges last December, the Japanese judge did concede she had been taken advantage

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