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Angry that Laura Plummer is freed and likely to cash in as a convicted drug dealer

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Tistheseason17 · 27/01/2018 20:01

The press seem to like writing about this woman as a "victim".
AIBU to wish she'd get arrested for obtaining the Tramadol illegally when she gets off the plane back here?

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IncyWincyGrownUp · 27/01/2018 21:42

Hygge there are also, thankfully, a lot of people fed up to the back teeth of the entire story. Hopefully she’ll fuck off into obscurity. :o

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Tistheseason17 · 27/01/2018 21:58

Just read that police will be investigating how she got them when she returns Smile
Good.

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Hygge · 27/01/2018 22:08

Incy let's hope so

PurpleCrowbar · 27/01/2018 22:20

Yes indeed Birds - it's all a bit Woger the Wobber because it's Revolution Day.

I'm glad she's hopefully on her way home, because she doesn't come across as the sharpest tool in the box, & undoubtedly the 'husband' was playing her.

But she knowingly broke the law in two countries & was fully liable for the consequences. She's escaped very lightly. Idiot.

On the subject of idiots, my ex thought it would be hilarious to post on my teenage son's Facebook, as the dc & I went through security 'I've put 300 tramadol in your suitcase! Haha!'

Not funny. Egypt takes a hugely bloody dim view of tramadol, with good reason.

I hope Laura P is ok. I would be the first to accept she probably had no intentions beyond giving them to her 'husband'. Still. Total Muppet.

mentalfluid · 28/01/2018 01:59

the seeing women criminals as victims boils my pee too tbh. in cases where an abused wife stabs her partner in self defence or extreme provocation or a woman with pupureal psychosis strangles her baby because she hears voices telling her to, fair enough- those women can be considered victims. but not all women are oppressed or victimised.

BulletFox · 28/01/2018 02:42

mentalfluid post puerperal psychosis gives me the absolute shudders, I had no idea it could happen until I innocently asked a colleague how his wife was doing with new born and he told me she'd had it. I was listening in some slight horror as he described it as prior to that I'd only thought childbirth was painful, I didn't know anything about it.

Laura Plummer isn't going to 'get away' with it - she'll be apprehended in the UK - however unfortunately I think she'll milk interviews etc. So we'll be seeing her for a while

nancy75 · 29/01/2018 23:09

Ive just seen in the Sun that they are not letting her out after all

ButchyRestingFace · 29/01/2018 23:16

I have precious little sympathy for her as to her crime and all the "she's just a simple country girl" shite her family have been peddling.

However, latest developments, if true, are damning: it's cruel to get someone's hopes up in this way and then dash them at the 11th hour.

Egyptian authorities should make their minds up what to do with her one way or the other and stick to it. Dangling a carrot in front of someone's nose in this way isn't fair.

BulletFox · 29/01/2018 23:17

Oooh Nancy really?

BulletFox · 29/01/2018 23:21

Just had a quick look, so it's because she had logged an appeal so her case is deemed 'active' so the pardon can't go through?

ButchyRestingFace · 29/01/2018 23:22

Just had a quick look, so it's because she had logged an appeal so her case is deemed 'active' so the pardon can't go through?

They should fannying about (assuming latest news is true).

MissEliza · 29/01/2018 23:23

The Egyptian president was issuing pardons for Revolution day on January 25th. It now seems unlikely she'll be getting out. I understand people's lack of sympathy but you can't imagine how awful the conditions are. A month is probably punishment enough for a stupid cow who thought it would make her arsehole 'husband' happy.

QuackPorridgeBacon · 29/01/2018 23:53

Don’t know much about he case except what I have read on this tbreax. Just googled her name and seen (didn’t click on the story) that she is now not being pardoned? If that’s the case and for no good reason, that’s shocking and an awful thing to do. Make their mind up and stick with it.

Amanduh · 30/01/2018 00:32

If she gets out and is wheeled around this morning and loose women I’ll lose my mind. Why are these (absolute dead beat rags but still) garnering sympathy for her? She’s an idiot as well.

“I haven’t done anything wrong. I’m innocent.

“Instead of asking God for forgiveness he should be asking me for forgiveness.”

But you have though? Jesus.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 30/01/2018 00:38

As much as I have no sympathy over what she has done. It was very cruel thing to do.
Say they're pardoning her and then next second they're not. It's beyond wicked to give her false hope and put her through pergutary

ginghambox · 30/01/2018 00:43

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Angry that Laura Plummer is freed and likely to cash in as a convicted drug dealer
nancy75 · 30/01/2018 09:36

I do wonder if her letters to the newspapers might be working against her. She was acting like they had made a mistake locking her up, they were giving her a pardon for something that she has done. A pardon is different to saying you have made a mistake

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Tistheseason17 · 30/01/2018 16:57

I'm ok with her remaining locked up. I suspect her odd family pedalled the pardon theory to put pressure on and it backfired. They are an interesting family....

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BulletFox · 30/01/2018 17:16

Actually I didn't understand why she isn't showing remorse for it. You'd think she'd hold her hands up and say sorry, I made a mistake, I didn't know about regulations so I apologise, I'm mortified.

Don't quite get all the contradictory news reports about her 'pardon'.

I do want her released however. She comes across as being daft as a squirrel and the conditions must be horrible there.

HoppyHannah · 30/01/2018 17:23

It's the boyfriend/quasi husband who needs to fess up aswell IMV.

But it is a Muslim country, so women will always be the baddies, whilst the men just carry on regardless with no consequences, it seems to me.

I thought she imported the drugs for her "husband's" bad back or something...... snort.

OnionKnight · 30/01/2018 17:28

I do want her released however. She comes across as being daft as a squirrel and the conditions must be horrible there.

What does being daft have to do with it? She got caught and now she's serving time for her crime, being daft doesn't mean she should be pardoned.

BulletFox · 30/01/2018 17:32

Onion I don't know, I just had the impression she really didn't realise the magnitude of what she did and can't help feeling a bit sorry for her and that she's not tough enough to survive in that environment.

I can't help it, sorry!

MorrisZapp · 30/01/2018 17:36

Which convicted drug dealers have become celebrities?

BoneyBackJefferson · 30/01/2018 19:44

MorrisZapp
Which convicted drug dealers have become celebrities?

a few here