Filipina asylum seeker, 2 others get 20 years' jail for drug trafficking

The cocaine-soaked bedsheets found in Dickensheets' luggage A High Court judge has sentenced a 56-year-old Filipina asylum seeker to 20 years and 8 months in jail after she was found guilty after trial for drug trafficking, along with two others. Rosita B. Palao who had worked as a domestic helper for 15 years before overstaying and subsequently filing for non-refoulement, was arrested on May 15, 2023 as she tried to pick up a consignment of liquid cocaine that had been brought into Hong Kong

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