Any sympathy for the British drug mule in Georgia?

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14723481/drug-mule-suspect-company-director-Chinese-retailers-Amazon.html

I was reading about this girl and actually do have a little symapthy. She is obviously vain, stupid, misguidedly ambitious but I don't know whether she is real player in the drug trade and has probably been groomed into carrying drugs by men promising her the earth.

The penalties for drug smuggling are understandably harsh on Georgia but should the UK try and get her to serve a sentence in the UK?

No sane person would post such nonsense in the face of the SM posts this criminal made before her arrest.

Don't you mean her SM accounts are not in her favour? Have you seen the picture of her and the money? Look through her pictures, God knows there's enough in the Mail, nothing they like more than a bikini shot. Not the little mouse appearing in court.
Someone pointed out the value of her designer clothes. I wouldn't recognise a Fendi bikini.

Where I live here is a HUGE issue with young boys (as young as 14 often) stealing motorbikes getting drunk and racing them around (no insurance, no license etc..) a couple of times a year they crash and a young rider is 'tragically' killed when the hit the pavement at high speed in just their shorts and no helmet.

There is always some idiot that posts this type of quote though. Are some people genuinely surprised to find out that NO in fact most of the population did NOT do these types of stupid things. Maybe they personally did (it seems like a very telling ideology to think its just kids being kids) and thats why they are convinced its normal but its actually not for most of the population. Its a very specific minority subsection of society.

dumb teen = getting drunk and embarrassing yourself at a house party etc... not drug smuggling and/or stealing cars etc...

She appears similar to former Georgian president Mikhail Saakhashvili, not as in close family, but as in origin

Give over 🤣

She was fucking loving it and sharing it all over social media. You should be ashamed comparing that scratter with genuine victims of trafficking.

She's related to the President?! What?
Edited to add: I can find no evidence of this.

She obviously didn't think about the possible consequences because if she had thought about them she wouldn't have done it. Certainly not for such a low reward relative to risk. The Amazon thing also shows she has no understanding of the value of her actions/personhood. £550 is a poor price for passport data. A few grand is a poor price for decades of lost liberty. So yes I do feel sorry for her. I feel sorry for most people at the bottom of the drugs trade.

No sane person would coerce and traffic others.

See how ridiculous that is.

@MissFenellaPrismI might do. Depends. Or I might not.

but in THIS specific case, and this set of circumstances, I see a idiotic and vain very young woman from a deprived part of the UK, showing off and thinking she’s invincible. And she isn’t. She’s been really stupid.

But it’s still possible to feel sympathy for her.

This sort of bullshit being trotted out is exactly why we see so many pathetic parents making up excuses for why their fuckwit offspring stabbed someone to death, or drove like an idiot and crashed a car killing their friends, etc. etc.

Absolving 18yo adults of their responsibility to not commit serious crimes 'because young' is beyond ridiculous.

I feel some sympathy for her family who may not have known that she was up to criminal behaviour but none for her. She is literally the definition of fuck around and find out and very lucky that the drugs weren’t found when she was in Thailand.

Just because the West is soft on drugs, I don’t think that she should be able to take the easy way out and do her time in the UK then let out after a fraction of the time served. I feel the same way about foreigners who break the law in the UK. The drugs trade causes so many deaths and so much misery yet there’s people on here who downplay the seriousness of doing them recreationally because they are shielded from the victims involved in creating the stuff and how they are treated by the people dealing and distributing the stuff.

I went travelling in my gap year but had watched Bangkok Hilton a few years before so knew to take the rule about not transporting other people’s packages super seriously. The main character in that wasn’t knowingly carrying drugs but it left an impression on me.

Stupid yeah… illegal no.

No sympathy whatsoever

Is there evidence she's "deprived"?

😂😂

Only of brain cells.

They were commenting on the social media posts of her obviously dodgy behaviour. She called herself a criminal. Filmed wads of cash. Swearing and chavving on.

If the excuse is that she was still a “child” then why the fuck weren’t her parents tackling her instead of egging her on? They also knew she had travelled to Thailand without insurance. But instead of spending a few quid to ensure she was covered they just commented with “duh” emojis on pics of her on motorbikes in Thailand.

Leave her in Georgia. Taxpayers money is better put to filling in potholes

I've read bits and pieces regarding the young woman. How did her parents think she was funding these trips to the Philippines and Thailand?! She'd recently finished a course that would lead her into nursing. Even if she was working part-time, she wouldn't have been earning enough for these trips and to fund herself whilst away. It wasn't her first trip to Thailand either, so where was the money coming from? It's possible she got herself mixed up in a romantic relationship, with the wrong type of man, who was just using her to carry drugs. However, at 18, she knows right from wrong. She's not stupid enough to think that being a drugs mule is not only legal but a good career move!! Yes, at 18, we all make mistakes in life, but the vast majority of us don't end up snuggling drugs!! She knew what she was doing in my opinion, and I suspect she'd probably smuggled drugs before and got away with it. It sounds very much that the authorities in Georgia didn't do a random stop on her, and happened to get lucky. This was a planned operation and therefore it means they had intelligence, which suggests she was or higher up associates were already on their radar. If she's pregnant (I hope not), it's the baby I feel sorry for having to spend the first 3 years of it's life in a prison. After that the child is handed to her family to look after and bring up. I have little sympathy for the woman.

----- and another!
Revealed: The £1.15million stash of cannabis British air stewardess, 21, is accused of bringing into Sri Lanka in her luggage | Daily Mail Online

But the point is the prosecutors will rightly use that in their case against her. She can’t plead stupidity successfully when her family say she’s intelligent.

Exactly this. She is an adult. Seemingly capable of crossing borders, selling her identity, posting glamorous pics of living some kind of gangsta life. All a game until it isn't. Hacking supermarkets? Bang them up. Young woman smuggling large amounts of drugs? She is just a sweet girl, terrible mistake. It's crime, she is involved. If she stole your credit card/car/Handbag you wouldn't be feeling sorry.

No sympathy at all here , if you commit the crime then expect to do the time .

I’m currently in hospital and two of my favourite HCA’s are 19 and 22, and they both honestly are so mature that I wouldn’t have pegged them as almost children.

Interesting how two eleven year olds who killed James Bulger are seen as pure evil and yet an eighteen year old (adult) smuggles drugs and “poor girl.” I don’t think so.

It’s very simple. Don’t want to spend life in a Georgian prison? Don’t smuggle drugs into Georgia. It’s not hard.

Don't fart then

I loathe drugs and feel no sympathy for her. I do feel sorry for some of the mules in Latin America who are genuinely forced into it.