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?

I can’t find any sympathy for her. Her social media was full of posts bragging about a criminal lifestyle.

I think more information is required before I can form a true opinion. On the face of it though, I do have little sympathy. However, we don’t know if she was coerced or manipulated into it. It’s wrong either way, and she shouldn’t have agreed to it. I’ve no idea how she ended up in Georgia of all
places.

I have zero sympathy for Drug Smugglers .Young or not most people know this to be wrong and would not do it .The British Grandma Lyndsay Sandiford arrested and in jail since 2012 ,for smuggling Cocaine still felt she would not be in jail very long! Bella doesnt seem the brightest of sparks to be fair .No doubt countless human rights lawyers will be paid vast sums ,to try to gain her freedom .There also seems some question as to whether she is pregnant or not?

I have some sympathy as she's only 18.

I do wish girls and young women would cease with all this posing and pouting and uploading selfie-videos in nothing more than their underwear.

I do think TikTok, influencers, reality TV, etc that promote physical beauty, and possessions beyond the means of ordinary people, dulls the brain and leads young people into a sort of cloud-cuckoo land where they can't grasp what real life is all about.

A slight bit of sympathy as she is unbelievably stupid.

But she did something illegal in a country with very harsh laws.

True, 💯

She's 18 not 13, she's fully aware of the law at that point. Unless she was threatened into it then I have no sympathy, I do have sympathy for her family though.

As the parent of a teen currently on a gap year definitely feel sympathy for her - and her parents what a bloody nightmare. She needs Mark Darcy to go and sort it out.

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

My eighteen year old is black. When she started going shopping with her friends at about fifteen she learned that when she buys something she has to put it straight in her bag at the check out, with the receipt and fasten her bag otherwise she gets stopped by security at the door. She hasn’t had the luxury of assuming she would get away with drug smuggling.

Zero sympathy.

You say she’s “ambitious”? She is the opposite of ambitious, she is lazy and greedy. She wanted a quick buck. If she was ambitious then she’d be working hard at Uni trying to get a top paying job.

She’s not stupid. She just got caught, like many other people everyday who just don’t make th news

Sympathy? No. Why on earth should I?

I didn't feel any for the moronic Peru Two either and am pretty sure one of them wrote a tell all book of their 'ordeal' when they were released to claw back a few of the quid they lost when their stash of drugs were taken away. So we've possibly got that to look forward to here as well 🙄

That’s awful

@GlidingSquirrels she said she did it for love 🤷‍♀️

Absolutely. Ambitious to be rich and pose in a bikini.

Shes a complete naive idiot. It sounds like she was used by her so called boyfriend, all the bonnie and clyde stuff she posted.
This is what happens when you don't teach your children about the real world.
Being tricked or coorced or love bombed into carrying drugs for people is a real risk, anyone that thinks backpacking across asia is a fairytale holiday needs to read more.
Same as my parents did for me when i travelled, will be same as I do for my kids when they travel. Show them actual real life case studies of things that can go wrong, what to look out for and tell them not to trust anyone at all.
I lived in thailand for a few years and the wolds most dodgy fuckers are all congretating there, and I would not trust anyone.
I feel sorry for her as she is naive and now fucked her life up.

Exactly. The drug peddlars choose young, pretty white women who will get sympathy. There will be pictures of her in a bikini, pictures of her then looking lost and crying in a tiny top and shorts. It's deliberate. Your daughter would have no chance.

Not really no, she FAFO. Her social media shows the type of person she is and the lifestyle she was promoting. She’s just now facing the consequences of them choices. There’s an article in the daily mail today about another lass who’s 21 who’s been caught smuggling drugs too.

Hang on, she did all this for £550 then posted it all over social media?

A bit I suppose. But it wasn't stupid it was a crime for which she was well paid. But thought she wouldn't be caught.

Do we know the social media account is genuine, and hasn’t been created afterwards by someone looking for clicks?

Absolutely no sympathy at all.
If she is old enough to go travelling, she is old enough to understand the consequences of her actions.

Everything she has done and has posted screams low IQ.
People looking for drug mules must have seen her a mile off.
Young, white, incredibly stupid, naive, wants to be loved, stupid parents, not street wise, easliy influenced.
She obviosuly isnt the mastermind here, she was targeted as a potential drug mule, probably love bombed and becuase she is js stupid, just went with it.

If we used the excuse that everyone does stupid things when young then there would be a hell of a lot less people in British jails, including all those dodgy drug dealers making peoples lives a misery in some places.

I don't know the full story as I'm not reading any Daily Mail links. But she was 18?! Christ, she's still a bloody child. You don't suddenly turn into fully mature adult on the day you turn 18. Just because an 18 year old knows the law, doesn't mean they have developed enough to fully understand the reality of that. 18 year old do stupid things all the time. They are still learning. That poor girl and her poor family.