Pubdate: Fri, 08 Feb 2008
Source: Mirror, The (UK)
Copyright: 2008 The Mirror
Contact:  http://www.mirror.co.uk/
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4YRS' JAIL FOR STEP ON DRUG

A british tourist has been jailed for four years in  Dubai after 
police found a tiny speck of cannabis on  the sole of his shoe.

Keith Brown, 43, is believed to have stepped in the  minuscule 0.003g 
of the drug on his way from Ethiopia  to London.

The trace, found inside the stub of a roll-up cigarette  Keith had 
stood on, weighed less than a grain of sugar.

But the dad-of-three was still charged under the United  Arab 
Emirates' zero tolerance policy.

Keith, a youth officer from Birmingham, was arrested at  Dubai 
airport in September as he and wife Imani  returned from a holiday to 
see family in Africa.

Last night his brother Lee said: "Keith was jailed at  Christmas and 
is trapped in a nightmare."
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