Brit woman, 21, rotting in Dubai hellhole jail without a shower for a month after being arrested on drugs charges
Ms Daggett's family claims that she has done nothing wrong and was rather lured to move to Dubai
'WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME' Brit woman, 21, rotting in Dubai hellhole jail without a shower for a month after being arrested on drugs charges
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A BRIT woman has been rotting inside a Dubai hellhole prison without a shower for a month after being arrested on alleged drug charges.
Cops arrested Isabella Daggett, 21, just five weeks after she relocated to Dubai from Yorkshire after landing a new job.
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Brit woman Isabella Daggett was arrested just weeks after relocating to Dubai
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She has not taken a shower in over a month, her family claims
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She was arrested by Dubai police along with another man soon after she set foot in the desert city
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And she has not taken a shower or even changed her clothes in months after being banged up in a prison in March, her family claims.
It all happened when Ms Daggett was offered to work in Dubai earlier this year.
The Britton was working for a businessman doing internet recruiting for construction sites in the UK, who offered to send her to the Middle East for a similar role.
But she was arrested by Dubai police - along with another man - soon after she set foot in the desert city.
Ms Daggett's family claims that she has done nothing wrong, has never used narcotics and was rather lured to move to Dubai.
Her grandmother Heather Smith told the DailyMail: "Bella has been locked up because she was in the wrong company. Wrong place, wrong time. Wrong boyfriend.
"The bloke she was working for said for her to come to Dubai, you'll love it there, the lifestyle is wonderful. Now she is locked up.
"But she is innocent because they have done all the tests and there was nothing in her system."
Mrs Smith described how the woman was being treated harshly inside the prison.
She added: "She hasn't had a shower for a month, she hasn't had a change of clothes for three months. She has had nothing.
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"Women get treated far worse than male prisoners, who get to go outside, they get sports, a PlayStation and a television - Bella has nothing.
"She can speak to me and her mum every day though, which is good. But we have been in bits."
It is understood that Ms Dagget was arrested alongside another man, with whom she was living at the time.
The grandma said her family had warned Ms Dagget about the potential dangers of the Middle Eastern city with tough prison laws.
She added: "She was arrested with a lad, who was not her boyfriend, with whom she was staying because things had fallen through with another house.
"She didn't really like him that much.'He may be guilty of something, but she isn't."
"We told Bella before she went to Dubai, 'you know the rules in Dubai, play by the rules, don't flaunt this, don't do that'."
She added said she was going to move back to Leeds just before being arrested.
It is not clear under what charges Ms Dagget was arrested.
Ms Daggett's mum Lucinda Smith, with whom she ran a Leeds-based modelling agency, posted a GoFundMe page to help her daughter.
The fundraiser read: "My daughter Isabella has been wrongfully detained in Dubai, and we are doing everything we can to prove her innocence and bring her back home.
"We have proof she was not involved in these charges and are determined to fight for her freedom. The hideous conditions she is living in are enough to break any mother's heart.
"The legal and travel expenses are overwhelming, and we need your support. Any contribution, no matter how small, will help us cover the costs of legal fees, travel, and other necessary expenses."
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Ms Daggett's family claims that she has done nothing wrong
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The Britton was working for a businessman doing internet recruiting for construction sites in the UK, who offered to send her to the Middle East for a similar role
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In the last couple of weeks, two other Brit women were arrested abroad for alleged drug smuggling.
Glam tourist Bella Culley allegedly tried to smuggle a suitcase of weed into Georgia and was locked away in a brutal ex-Soviet prison despite claiming to be pregnant.
The 18-year-old was sent to the brutal Women's Penitentiary No. 5 in the town of Rustavi - a slammer notorious for its hellish conditions just outside Tbilisi.
She had originally jetted to the Philippines to meet an old friend, but reportedly changed her plans last minute to go to Thailand with a gang of British lads unknown to her.
A sentence ranging from 20 years to life could be a possibility for teen Bella from County Durham, according to prosecutors.
Meanwhile, former air stewardess Charlotte May Lee was then caught allegedly trying to smuggle drugs worth £1.2million into Sri Lanka.
Her two suitcases were said to have been stuffed with 46kg of a synthetic cannabis strain known as kush — which is 25 times more potent than opioid fentanyl.
If found guilty, South Londoner Charlotte could face a 25-year sentence.
There are also fears that both the "smuggling cases" could be linked.
Experts told The Sun how wannabe Brit Insta stars are being lured by cruel gangs into carting drugs across the world.
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Brit student Bella May Culley was arrested in Georgia after allegedly carrying drugs into the country from Thailand
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