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to hope the Foreign Office don't waste any time on Laura Plummer...

684 replies

PiffleandWiffle · 26/12/2017 22:09

She was stupid enough to smuggle drugs into a country against their laws, got caught & got sentenced.

BBC Link

Cue the predictable wailing & cries of "it's not fair" from the family!

Personally, I'd rather the Foreign Office spent it's time trying to help people who are genuinely in trouble abroad rather than idiots drug smugglers....

OP posts:
PrincessoftheSea · 26/12/2017 22:10

Yanbu

Eltonjohnssyrup · 26/12/2017 22:12

I think it would be quite nice if they could arrange for her to serve her sentence in a British jail so she could see her family.

MrsTerryPratchett · 26/12/2017 22:12

Just because you're an idiot, or a drug dealer, does not mean you have relinquished British citizenship. TBH though, three years isn't that extreme for drug smuggling. Lucky it wasn't a country that would have executed her.

Seniorcitizen1 · 26/12/2017 22:13

The issue for me is how did she get nearly 300 tramadol tablets as only abailable on prescription in uk. She has lied somewhere along the line and went to a country where he partner would surely have told her they are illegal in Egypt. She could have received death sentence so 3 years in very light.

BlessYourCottonSocks · 26/12/2017 22:14

Of course she knew it was illegal - tramadol is only available on prescription, and they will only prescribe one month's supply at a time - so probably 28 tablets at most. It would be illegal in the UK to obtain 300 tablets for someone else. She must KNOW she obtained them in some kind of dodgy way, and they certainly weren't intended for her Egyptian partner by whoever prescribed them. She was daft to think you can travel to somewhere abroad with dodgy drugs. I agree she will have to accept the consequences now.

nancy75 · 26/12/2017 22:15

I think she’s got off lightly, being a British citizen doesn’t give anyone the right to different treatment under the law of a foreign country & nor should it. Why should she be allowed to be in prison here? Why should we pay the cost of her inprisonment?

FannyWisdom · 26/12/2017 22:15

Not ideal but a lenient sentence considering.

Afford her every help but stop the media bollox. She did it.

Eltonjohnssyrup · 26/12/2017 22:21

bless from what I can make out she has gone 'prescription shopping' and got multiple private prescriptions from various private doctors, mainly online.

BlessYourCottonSocks · 26/12/2017 22:23

But that must be dodgy, surely, Elton? Presumably she's not told any of these 'private doctors' how many tablets she's already accumulated?

IncyWincyGrownUp · 26/12/2017 22:25

The local press in her home town have said she was given the drugs by a colleague who got them on prescription.

I personally think she knew exactly what she was doing. She’s lucky she got such a short sentence especially seeing as Egyptian courts can order a death sentence for drug trafficking.

LockedOutOfMN · 26/12/2017 22:25

Yanbu, op.

Therealjudgejudy · 26/12/2017 22:27

She smuggled an illegal drug into another country for someone else. She is guilty as sin. She's extremely fortunate to only have been convicted of possession and not trafficking.

Groovee · 26/12/2017 22:28

Knowing how hard it is to get tramadol as I have had to beg for them for my horrendously bad days with chronic pain and I only get 28 at a time and I have to sign for them!

YANBU Op!

Mumof56 · 26/12/2017 22:30

She "accidently" plead guilty.

DancesWithOtters · 26/12/2017 22:31

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FabulouslyGlamorousFerret · 26/12/2017 22:34

You wouldn't take 300 paracetamol into a foreign country without some sort of doctors note .... she's a dickhead and lucky to only get three years

Rebeccaslicker · 26/12/2017 22:34

Do you think taxpayers should cough up for that, Elton?

www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/563326/costs-per-place-cost-per-prisoner-2015-16.pdf

Be far cheaper to pay for her family to fly out there for visits!

Glumglowworm · 26/12/2017 22:34

Yanbu

She’s stupid and her story doesn’t add up. She must have obtained them via dodgy means and “husband” would definitely have known they were illegal in Egypt.

Being a British citizen doesn’t make you exempt from following the law in countries you choose to visit.

NotTheQueen · 26/12/2017 22:39

Given an Irish citizen just spent four years on remand awaiting trial, I think she got off lightly

www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/20/irish-egyptian-man-ibrahim-halawa-freed-released-egypt-jail

I had to travel last year and one of the cheapest options was through Dubai, but I wasn’t prepared to take the risk due to my own medication. People need to consider the outcomes before they do something silly.

I have sympathy because three years in an Egyptian prison will be awful but she isn’t as innocent and naive as her family would like us to think - especially as she has been involved with a married local.

Moreisnnogedag · 26/12/2017 22:40

300 tablets?? Where on earth did she get them from? Tramadol has quite a reasonable street value on the UK so it's hardly like she just popped into her GPs for them. I thought three years was actually quite reasonable.

Tistheseason17 · 26/12/2017 22:40

YANBU
It's a controlled drug in this country, too.
Just as dodgy here which is why she couldn't get it easily in UK. Fed up with sob stories

londonrach · 26/12/2017 22:40

Yanbu. You have to be daft and very stupid to do this. Shes lucky its only three years. It could be alot worse in some countries.

CoolCarrie · 26/12/2017 22:40

YANBU at all,she is an idiot and her boyfriend is a twat!

ArchchancellorsHat · 26/12/2017 22:41

She obtained them illegally or by dodgy means - I think one of her colleagues got them on prescription and passed them on. Colleague should be prosecuted as well if so. But with the subterfuge involved in getting them, how could she not know it was illegal to take them to another country? By all the accounts I've read she's a bit dim rather than a criminal mastermind but she did do it unfortunately.

I think she got off lightly tbh but I do feel sorry for her family. It must be horrendous for them.

Floralnomad · 26/12/2017 22:42

YANBU , I think she got off pretty lightly all things considered , stupid woman .

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