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?

it’s possible they were trying desperately to safeguard her, we just don’t know and can’t possibly say either way.

Maybe…but unsuccessfully.

She is apparently pregnant at the moment - that's what she told the court in Georgia.

Pleading the belly has been a thing since at least 1387 in England. It's not like it's a new and shocking development for women potentially in the shit to announce this in court.

No, but in 1387 such a claim could only be categorically proved or disproved by time, whereas now it could be disproved in the time it takes to do a pregnancy test.

I think her solicitor said they had done the test and had the results whichever makes me think she’s not pregnant.

I've known a lot of 18 year olds who have done not very sensible things. But this is criminal not just stupid. Obviously she thought it was worth the risk and thought dhe wouldn't get caught. Well she has now learned it wasn't worth the risk and she did get caught.

No, never feel sympathy for these idiots. They took a chance and it failed, so boo hoo, suck it up and take the consequences.

If you take illegal drugs you have helped to keep the trade, so you are in a way partly responsible. Though most of the victims of the trade are not white teenage girls.

Nope! Drugs ruin lives

Hmm so it was cannabis and hash? Not exactly damaging to people compared to other substances. Clearly she's a bit dim but I don't personally believe she needs a long prison sentence.

For context my friend in our teens smuggled several grams of speed in a kinder egg plastic container up his bum to Czech. Surely that has to be worse, both as a teenage mistake and potential harm to others 😬

14kg of cannabis (regardless of whether its weed, hash, whatever, its all cannabis) is a MASSIVELY different issue to a tiny bit of personal use speed.

That much speed is personal use for a few days...

14kg of cannabis is more than I've had in my LIFE. I doubt I'd live long enough for that to be personal use - so thats intent to supply which is far more serious.

Well it's clearly intention to supply, but surely that's a fairly crap type of drug?

Disclaimer - I have never tried cannabis or hash

7.5 g of speed would have been my personal for a weekend and I used base the stronger version of speed.
I was a Northern soul casualty and there were many like me

I ended up living in a squat in Holland at 16. One of my friends dealt speed and the other ketamine. I certainly can't get het up about a bit of weed!

I ended up with a 21 year amphetamine habit ..the only person I hurt was myself.you may know amphetamine will destroy a users MH

14kg is not 'a bit of weed' though.

Thats a huge amount of weed, that she damn well knew she was carrying, to supply to others (it's irrelevant that she was muling it for someone else rather than dealing herself) and she had very easy access to information about how stiff the penalities would be if she got caught.

I don't doubt she was thick enough not to realise why dodgy people pay idiots like her to mule drugs, but that isn't a defence.

That's pretty irrelevant unless you're the person tasked with defining drug offences and punishments in Georgia.

The flight attendant girl claiming she didn't know she had 46kg of drugs in her luggage

My 12 year old son who is the same height as me weighs 40kg. She was carrying drugs the weight of a young teenage boy in drugs and didn't know

Pull the other one

And then other young people (or their parents) get pissed off when schools won't respond to requests for references to airlines/airside employers when their school record shows suspensions/exclusions for drug/alcohol/tobacco possession, use and distribution.

THIS IS WHY.

I feel a degree of sympathy for her, but only because of her youth. She's barely an adult and is likely to spend a long time in prison. If she spends 20 years in prison, she could be almost 40 when she's released. If she really is pregnant (I doubt it), she won't be able to raise her own child. If she's not pregnant, she won't have much time to settle down and start a family when she's released.

That said, the drugs trade causes untold misery for so many people globally and results in a lot of deaths. So I think it's only fair that she serves time for the crime she committed and I hope the publicity serves as a warning for other young people.

flight attendant girl woman

Corrected for you. She is 21 years old. A girl is 9, 10....

18+ is a woman.

@Taytocrispsyouve summed up exactly how wanted to phrase it

Lock her up and keep her locked up. It's not like Britain is any worse off without her.

Yes quite. Now she claims some random bloke tricked her into it. What a loada BS.