Donna Nelson’s lawyers say she is finding it hard to stay positive after 10 months. She is not allowed to speak to other inmates and is kept isolated.
Donna Nelson’s legal team says the WA grandmother worries she will be forgotten while she waits for a trial inside a 10 by 12 foot cell in a Japanese detention centre.
A blanket ban on visitors meant this masthead couldn’t see Nelson on a recent trip to Chiba Prison, about an hour outside Tokyo.in Tokyo, Rie Nishida, a criminal defence lawyer and founder of Shinjuku International Law Firm said Nelson was finding it difficult to stay positive after 10 months. She still does not have a trial date.
“We filed a partial lift of the communication ban so now she can see a pastor and I think it’s helping her a lot.”Advertisement“Donna wants to say that she is going to be able to prove her innocence, she’s 100 per cent confident of that in herself and she wants everyone in Australia and the world to know that she is innocent,” Owens said.
“The main issue is whether she knows there was drugs contained in the suitcase or not, our logic is that she never knew that,“Nashida said.Nashida said the proper translation of evidence into English was making it more difficult.
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