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 have a small amount of sympathy. Jailed in a foreign country for anything from 20 years plus is harsh and I do feel sad as she’ll not experience life. If she’s out in her late 30s that’s almost my lifetime behind bars. I guess I feel sad at the waste of her life.
But I also believe she knew what she was doing and looking at those social media posts she wasn’t as nice a girl, nor naive as her family think. Sad situation but for those who were going to buy the drugs maybe a life saved. And for people who claim cannabis is harmless this is where it starts with mules that have potentially been groomed by older men into doing this sort of thing. It’s not harmless.
i see another British girl was arrested this week abroad for the same thing.

They’ll both have to do their time in foreign prisons as they should.

i have daughters the same age it is upsetting

I don’t think it should be getting this much coverage. Stupid thing to do, now you face the consequences. There is no way on earth she can’t have known what she was doing. And all the laughing about £550 for selling your own passport details and that being the end of it. Dear God!

@BadSkiingMum

If convicted she should serve a sentence but I hope she gets extradited to the UK...

Why would the silly woman be extradited to the UK when the crime she's being charged with didn't happen in the UK?

Don't take drugs, don't sell them. Very easy.

Generally not drug smuggling though eh! 😂

No, they did not.
"Stupid things" means seeing if you can mix vodka and wine or miss the last train and walk 12 miles home.
This is beyond "stupid". This is "criminal".
No sympathy at all.

Sandra Gregory

I disagree, I think the more coverage the better, it'll hopefully dissuade other young women from doing the same thing thinking it's easy money.

I have every sympathy for the 18 year old lad in dubai who consensually slept with someone 2 months younger than him but the wrong side of 18

This girl though... nah

Why do people have sympathy for any stupid person who takes a chance with the risks involved of smuggling drugs? If they had got got away with it they would be laughing. Doesn't matter how young "naive" "groomed" someone is.

Yes. It was only cannabis. Drugs should be legalised and none of this business would be happening.

No

I feel sorry for her. I was clueless at 18. I went to visit my parents in a country where there is a death penalty for drug trafficking. As I was leaving, a man at the airport asked if I’d carry a parcel through customs for him as he was over the limit of duty free. I Stupidly ( being helpful and polite as I’d been brought up) agreed then I saw my dad on the other side of the glass going mad at me to give the parcel back.
Im aware this girls scenario is different from mine but its folly of youth and probably not a middle class, privileged up bringing like I had

I have no sympathy for anyone who gets involved in the abhorrent trade in drugs which causes misery to countless people all over the world

I have a little sympathy for anyone who makes bad life changing decisions while their brain is still developing. My understanding is that happens around age twenty five.

I don’t think that absolves them of the consequences of their bad decisions, even when it means serving time in a foreign prison.

They're not, so it is.

I am split.

I think looking at her in court it is quite obvious reality has caught up with her and she is proverbally shitting herself.

I think there needs to be punishment but for her life to be literally over for a single episode of drug smuggling? I don't know.

It is a falling that those that put her up to it may not face any sanction and I really do think she probably does have a low IQq coupled with a myriad of mental health issues including being a fanticist.

Yes, otherwise the age of criminal responsibility would be 25. There are nurses, teachers, doctors, paramedics under that age. Funny how they manage with demanding and responsible jobs

Oh dear, I was just reading about another one, 21 year old woman. I don't understand what the draw is.

Cannabis should definitely be legalised and then then the authorities could concentrate on the bad drugs like heroin, cocaine and PCP.

But regardless, at the moment in Georgia, cannabis is not legal so she should face the full weight of the law. Use her as an example to set for other idiot teens thinking of doing the same thing.

I have sympathy-she's young and has done something daft. The authorities should go after the big boys and drug cartels behind this kind of situation. It is well known that a child's brain isn't fully developed until they are 25.

A very stupid young woman, but presumably intelligent enough to know the difference between right and wrong, so I have very little sympathy.

If what she was done was merely 'stupid', she wouldn't be sitting in a Georgian jail awaiting trial for something that could put her away for a long, long time.

What she did was criminal. And no, plenty of us have never done anything like that.

She is young, naive and uneducated. She is vulnerable. They look for people like this. She is a victim and I have a lot of sympathy for her.

Of course she needs punishing. Smuggling such a huge amount of drugs is illegal and needs to be punished. There also needs to be a deterrent to stop others from doing this.