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Taylor is unrecognizable after being hungry in a Cambodian prison. She with the children Kahlyla, on the left, and Archer, on the right.
An Australian woman serving a 23-year prison sentence in Cambodia got a staggering legal victory after her narcotics conviction was overturned in 2014 by the Supreme Court of Cambodia.
The woman, Yoshe Ann Taylor, a 46-year-old kindergarten teacher and mother of two from Queensland, was the victim of an Internet scam, revealed by the Sydney Morning Herald in 2016 for being run by an international syndicate of drug traffickers
. The Cambodian capital Phnom Penh was stopped at the airport in September 2013 after being caught trying to leave the country with two kilograms of heroin concealed in his luggage.
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The decision of the Supreme Court of Cambodia means that her case will now be referred to the Court of Appeal of Cambodia to be reappointed.
to the Cambodian authorities at the time of Taylor's trial in 2014, or his unsuccessful appeal in 2016, his co-accused, Nigerian Nwoko Precious Chineme, who used the online pseudonym "Precious Max", had cheated several other Australian nationals captured in Max Australia, who was arrested shortly after Taylor in 2013, even continued to scam women behind bars.
A single mother of three from Melbourne was arrested in Australia in 2015 almost two years after Max was imprisoned. The prosecution of the woman was abandoned by the Australian authorities. She detailed her ordeal in an 18-page statement to the Australian Federal Police
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Precious Max in his online dating profile. The Nigerian has also deceived several other Australian women.
Cases in which the Australian authorities chose not to prosecute, or the accused was tried and found not guilty, helped Taylor after his lawyers presented the details as fresh evidence to the Court Cambodian supreme. , Speaking on behalf of Taylor's legal team, said the ruling of the Cambodian Supreme Court "was based in part on new evidence regarding a number of other cases involving Australian citizens who have been unduly scammed by co-accused Nwoko Precious Chineme (Precious Max) or his associates
"The facts of these cases are strikingly similar to the case of our client and the version of events that our client has been constantly invoked since his arrest. "
Taylor has maintained his innocence since his arrest in 2013.
The Supreme Court's decision offers a glimmer of hope to the mother of two Queensland children, who spent five years in prison at the cramped and cramped horrible conditions at the police judicial jail on the outskirts of Phnom Penh.After being allowed out a few hours a week, Taylor has developed a series of health complications and is almost unrecognizable due to the extreme weight loss that she has endured.
At the last visit of Sydney Morning Herald ] Prior to her call, Taylor asked for pictures of her children, saying, "I just want to go home and be with my kids, they I miss them so much, they mean the world to me.
"I just want
She has not spoken to her children since November 2014, when she was rushed to the hospital and a friendly guardian allowed her to use his cellphone to call them.
No date has yet been set fixed for the hearing of the court of appeal.
– SMH
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