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Life for Aussie on Viet drug charges
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Life for Aussie on Viet drug charges


AN Australian woman was jailed for life and her sister was handed a four-year prison sentence by a court in Vietnam today after they were found guilty of trafficking drugs.

Phan Thi Ngoc Phuong, 25, was handed a life sentence by the Ho Chi Minh City People's Court despite demands by prosecutors that she receive the death penalty, Australian consular officials said.

Prosecutors had also asked that her 14-year-old sister Phan Ngoc Viet Phi be jailed for between eight and 10 years.

No criminal proceedings were brought against their youngest sister, Phan Ngoc Viet Chau, 12, because Vietnamese law prohibits prosecution of people under the age of 14.

The trio, of Vietnamese origin, were stopped at Ho Chi Minh City's Tan Son Nhat airport as they boarded a flight to Sydney on November 1 last year.

The two younger sisters were caught carrying 656 grams of heroin concealed in packages beneath their clothing.

Phuong told police that she received $US50,000 ($75,600) plus expenses from a woman in Sydney to transport the heroin from Vietnam to Australia, according to state media.

Chau was released the following week into the care of relatives because of her age, but her two elder sisters were kept in police custody.

Vietnam has some of the toughest drug laws in the world.

A clerk at the Ho Chi Minh City People's Court said Chau would now be allowed to return to Australia.

The two sisters have 15 days to lodge an appeal, which must then be heard within 90 days.

In August last year, Australian woman Le My Linh was sentenced to death on drug trafficking charges. Her appeal was rejected in December and the following month she asked for presidential clemency. She has yet to receive a formal answer.

Linh's death sentence triggered an outcry in Australia and prompted Foreign Minister Alexander Downer to send a letter to his Vietnamese counterpart, Nguyen Dy Nien, expressing his deep opposition to capital punishment.

Australian drug enforcement officials, however, have privately expressed concern about the growing involvement of Sydney-based Vietnamese gangs in trafficking drugs to Australia from Vietnam.

In late March, Australian man Quach Tieu Buu, 39, and a Singapore national were jailed for life for trafficking ecstasy.

A week earlier, Australian woman Nguyen Thi Kim Hieu, 35, was handed a life prison term for trying to smuggle heroin on to a Sydney-bound plane from Ho Chi Minh City.

At least eight foreign drug traffickers have been executed in Vietnam since 1995, when Wong Chi-Sing from Hong Kong was put to death for trafficking 5kg of heroin.


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