Might mean (unverified): Deserved consequence for one's actions.
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  1. serve someone right: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. serve someone right: Wiktionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (serve someone right)

verb:  (idiomatic, of an unpleasant event) To happen to someone who is thought to deserve it.
verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see serve, right.

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