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?

Yes, I have sympathy for both her and Shamima Begum.

Real players don’t walk around with drugs on them, that’s what mules are for.

She was caught at the airport. How on earth is EVERYONE involved in drug trafficking going to be punished when the police don't use some common sense and follow these people?!

The security services are already stretched. They must have more on her than we know, as something like 400 Isis jihadis have returned, most have disappeared without trace.
She also has a Pakistani passport, but won't go there.

I don't know why they don't follow them but I'm guessing it's, maybe, because you then can't prove they brought the drugs into the country? So somewhere like Georgia, where cannabis is legal, a drug mule could say they were given it outside the airport. Therefore they're not guilty of smuggling? I don't know but that would make sense to me.

Plus, of course, if they give you the slip you've lost the lot. At least the drug mule is in custody...and they may give names for a deal. Who knows?

I think selling your passport info for 550 quid is one thing (not condoning it... It was stupid)
But the 12kg of drugs, that's a different ballgame.
No sympathy.

Then don’t become a mule. Hopefully these punishments serve as a reminder. We really need to teach our children better.

It’s interesting which young woman / girl’s receive sympathy for having been groomed into criminal activity and which don’t.

Why are you assuming she was groomed OP?

Such rubbish. My parents started working at 14. 18 is NOT a child

To answer your question no sympathy and no, the UK should not intervene.

I see posts on MN all the time about brains not being developed until 25 and still a child at 18. Perhaps 25 should be the age of majority then - no under 25s in pubs and clubs, no alcohol till 25 and No voting or driving.

Oh yes it would involve taking pics of the drugs at the airport as evidence then sending them on their way maybe popping a tracker in the case so they don't lose them. They really need to come up with a better system.

Probably yes because she carried pot. In my view it's not such bad drug that people get addicted to. It's no worse than alcohol or cigarettes that you can buy legally, for sure.

I wonder if it was an 18 year old black male smuggling drugs into the UK if people would be sympathetic.

I think you know the answer to that….

Not just young girls. There was the recent case of the prison Governor sent down for being involved in a relationship with a prisoner and got him early release. He is back behind bars and she got 12 years. Criminals, drugs, it's so exciting until you are in the dock.

It’s really not. A quick google search will confirm that what she did is not only illegal but punishable. She will have known what she was doing and what the consequences would be if she got caught. She was obviously hoping she’d get away with it.

This is very useful additional context.

No sympathy here.
She posted her lifestyle on social media- this will come back to bite her.
Did I do stupid things when travelling- yes. Did I do illegal things when travelling- no.

Parents have to have conversations pointing out the consequences of their actions.

"only cannabis". Well that makes it ok then. Drugs should not be legalised, even cannabis, and this idiot deserves everything she gets as do all drug smugglers/dealers etc

A massive cartel leader was caught last year .

It’s not an either or situation.

They can’t let mules go just because they’re young blonde girls on the bottom rung of the ladder.

Until a drugged driver kills/injuresbyou or a member of your family. It's legal in some places but you don't get carte blanche to take it and drive/ operate machinery etc. let's not make light of it. It's a drug. Where it's legal then you can use it and be responsible as with alcohol but abuse it and the responsibility for your actions lie with you.

Why? Their laws, their punishment. Shall we ask the US government to send Abu Hamza Al Masai back to serve his sentence as well, after all the poor man is disabled so it must be extra hard for him being in a maximum security prison in the US away from his family.

No

It's interesting, there are two threads (this one and one about a 34 year old setting his dating range from 21) going on here that keep bringing up a woman's age and saying they're not mature enough.

When are women mature enough to take responsibility for themselves? Why are we infantalising grown women?

At 18 I knew right from wrong, I knew not to smuggle drugs or accept suitcases from strange men. I knew to pack my own suitcase. I knew unprotected sex could result in a pregnant. At 19 I had moved out and lived on my own. Was I not an adult then?

I mentioned them earlier in the thread. They'll definitely be a sad face newspaper interview with this one, maybe followed by the book deal.

Just waiting for the family to start a GFM.