A PREGNANT girl who feared having to present delivery in a Spanish jail after being jailed for failing to pay a high-quality has returned residence to Scotland.
Jamielee Fielding, 32, beforehand travelled residence to Livingston, West Lothian, with out paying a £360 high-quality over a drunken altercation in Malaga in 2021.
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However when she went on vacation to Tenerife in August she was arrested and sentenced to 4 months in jail.
Her native MP Hannah Bardell travelled to the Canary Islands two weeks in the past and helped safe her protected return residence.
Miss Bardell, the SNP MP for Livingston, stated: “I travelled alongside along with her dad, at my very own price, to help my constituent Jamielee and to make sure a clean and protected passage residence from Tenerife.
“It’s been a troublesome and upsetting time for her since she misplaced her mum final yr, now I hope she will be able to look to the long run. Wishing her and her household all the easiest and hope her child arrives safely within the coming weeks.
“I’m grateful to the workers on the Overseas Workplace who my staff and I labored carefully with to assist guarantee protected passage.
“I’m glad the Spanish authorities lastly noticed sense and I hope that some classes shall be realized about truthful and correct therapy of international nationals in Spain.”
Jamielee, who’s eight months pregnant, was fined after an altercation in Spain a yr in the past.
On the time she had been amassing her mum’s physique after she died in an unexplained incident on vacation.
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She stated she had “not been in the precise mind set” and ended up being arrested for drunken behaviour on the seaside.
The mum-to-be stated she supposed to pay the high-quality when she arrived in Tenerife however was not allowed to and was despatched to jail as an alternative.
She spent the primary six weeks of her sentence within the most safety jail which she described as “a residing hell”.
Talking final month, she stated: “It has been unimaginable. I can not ponder having my child right here in a international hospital.
“All I need is to be again residence in a Scottish hospital with my household round me to have a protected delivery and ensure she is wholesome.
“I am searching for a miracle as a result of proper now it would not seem like there’s any method I can get again.”
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