DUBAI (Reuters) - Dubai has freed a Briton jailed after a speck of cannabis was found on his shoe, a newspaper reported on its Web site on Tuesday.
Authorities released father-of-three Andrew Brown, 43, fromBirmingham, who had been serving a four-year jail sentenceafter police at Dubai airport found 0.003 grams (0.0001 ounce)of cannabis stuck to the sole of a shoe in his luggage lastSeptember, the daily 7 Days said.
Brown said he had been returning from a holiday in Ethiopiato mark the Rastafarian millennium, it said.
Dubai has a zero tolerance drug policy.
Last week, a Dubai court sentenced British DJ RaymondBingham, better known as Grooverider, to four years in jailafter the BBC Radio 1 programme host was caught with 2.16 gramsof marijuana at the emirate's airport in November.
Dubai is part of the United Arab Emirates. Under UAE law,drug trafficking carries a sentence ranging from four years injail to death, although executions are rare. Foreignersconvicted of bringing drugs into the Gulf trade and tourism hubnormally face jail terms followed by deportation.
(Writing by Firouz Sedarat; Editing by Janet Lawrence)
