Friday, 26 March 2010
By RC News
The Copenhagen Post
What appeared to be the prospect of 15 years in a Cambodian prison turned into a sudden trip home for a Danish woman
Under unclear circumstances 55-year-old Johanne Vinther Axelsen was released from a prison in Phnom Penh after serving less than two years of a 15 year sentence for sending codeine pills to the USA.
Axelsen was released Thursday morning by Cambodian authorities and reportedly arrived in Copenhagen last night, according to TV2 News.
The case was a controversial one when it hit the courts. It began in early 2008 when Axelsen sent 53 packets of more than 10,000 headache pills containing codeine and valium to her son in the US. The son, Niels Eikeland, had evidently told her that the shipment was perfectly legal.
But it was not so according to Cambodian law, and in April of 2008 Axelsen was sentenced to 15 years in prison for drug smuggling. Axelsen appealed the ruling, but the sentence was upheld in September 2009.
Then yesterday she was inexplicably released and she immediately returned to Denmark.
No information has yet been obtained as to why Axelsen was suddenly released by the Cambodian police.
By RC News
The Copenhagen Post
What appeared to be the prospect of 15 years in a Cambodian prison turned into a sudden trip home for a Danish woman
Under unclear circumstances 55-year-old Johanne Vinther Axelsen was released from a prison in Phnom Penh after serving less than two years of a 15 year sentence for sending codeine pills to the USA.
Axelsen was released Thursday morning by Cambodian authorities and reportedly arrived in Copenhagen last night, according to TV2 News.
The case was a controversial one when it hit the courts. It began in early 2008 when Axelsen sent 53 packets of more than 10,000 headache pills containing codeine and valium to her son in the US. The son, Niels Eikeland, had evidently told her that the shipment was perfectly legal.
But it was not so according to Cambodian law, and in April of 2008 Axelsen was sentenced to 15 years in prison for drug smuggling. Axelsen appealed the ruling, but the sentence was upheld in September 2009.
Then yesterday she was inexplicably released and she immediately returned to Denmark.
No information has yet been obtained as to why Axelsen was suddenly released by the Cambodian police.
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