Laura Plummer jailed

No wonder the 'friend' will not own up to giving them to her.

"People who are caught in possession of tramadol illegally can expect to face action.

It could be a formal caution or an arrest and possible conviction.

Having tramadol that is not prescribed for you for your own use could result in up to two years in prison and/or an unlimited fine.

Selling, supplying or giving tramadol away for free, even to friends, could result in up to 14 years in prison and/or an unlimited fine. "

From the Hull Daily Mail.

www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-news/tramadol-shocker-belfast-housewives-dealing-8714296

Two years ago.

If an Egyptian came here and was caught selling 300 Tramadol in the street- how many years would he get
Simple answer: none. That's providing it was his first offence. If it wasn't then he might get a community service order. In that case he would be on first plane home.

Information is easily available about the laws on carrying prescription drugs into a particular country.

Poor silly girl.

3 years was the minimum sentence for the offence.

Jura2 - you ask for comments on:
"If an Egyptian came here and was caught with selling 300 Tramadols in the streets- how many years would he get?"
I've no idea but I don't think the question is relevant. Travellers should obey the laws of the countries they visit and accept the consequences if they don't. In Saudi Arabia & other strict Islamic countries foreigners have been imprisoned for drinking alcohol - not a crime in their own countries.
As others have said I don't think she is as naive as her family are saying - she's been a regular visitor to Egypt.

Come on. Regular trips to Egypt. Caught smuggling drugs. Naive or a drug smuggler.

Yay

Indeed x

Looks like we're all agreed! What a rarity on GN

Set up by the boyfriend and his “friend” to act as a mule, I expect. Silly girl.

As an aside, I am having to jump through hoops to get more than a months supply of some prescribed medicine to take to the uk when I leave France, to tide me over before signing up with a new Doc. Specific forms and letters for all interested parties, including customs. ? The medicine is specific to women, so hardly think it would interest the drug pushers ?

DH is on Tramadol for chronic back pain. His instructions are to take them as little as possible i.e. only when the pain is uncontrollable by other meds or/and unbearable. He only receives 30 tablets at a time. His GP monitors his usage and queries any times there seems too short a time between prescription requests. I can't see this only being the policy of his GP so something dodgy must have gone on for this woman to get 300.

She must have know that prescription only meds are controlled drugs in the UK and therefore likely to be controlled in other countries. Tramadol is banned in Egypt but other equally effective painkillers are available. It begs the question...does the boyfriend (who has been notable by his absence in the media) really have a bad back or was he simply after the Tramadol for other purposes.

The media is treating her as if she's innocent and some evil foreign regime has set her up and is now treating her abhorrently. However she committed a crime and therefore is a criminal being held in Egypt in the same conditions as other criminals in that country. Their prisons may not meet our standards but that's not our problem and/or a reason to criticise Egypt.

Cold To misquote Mandy Rice Davies commenting on another doubtful statement, "Well, she would say that, wouldn't she?"

Of course the 'friend' won't come forward and in any case it was Plummer who smuggled them in. Why do people think the laws of another country do not apply to them. We see it often in France usually British people. I agree with other posters she can hardly play the naive young girl at 33. Another woman being conned by a so called boyfriend.

Why did the friend have 300 strong painkilling tablets but needed them so little that they could be "given away". - 300 opiate tablets, when the dosage is a couple of tablets a day and they are so addictive that they are only prescribed a few at a time.

Is this friend worth doing three years in an Egyptian jail for? "the friend won't come forward" - but if she named the friend, the friend would HAVE to come forward and face the music.

Is it perhaps a friend of the boyfriend?
Is she afraid to name him/her?
Was she told that if they were found she was on her own?

More questions arise all the time.

That amount of Tramodol would never be "prescribed" And anyway it doesn't alter her crime.

Any comments on this one:

If an Egyptian came here and was caught with selling 300 Tramadols in the streets- how many years would he get?

I saw this article that explains how she got them. They were prescribed to a friend who gave (perhaps sold them) to her. The family are angry that the friend won't come forward - but I suppose they don't want to incriminate themself and risk going to court, as what they did - selling/giving away - controlled drugs is illegal in the UK
www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/family-laura-plummer-say-selfish-758807

I saw this article that explains how she got them. They were prescribed to a friend who gave (perhaps sold them) to her. The family are angry that the friend won't come forward - but I suppose they don't want to incriminate themself and risk going to court, as what they did - selling/giving away - controlled drugs is illegal in the UK
www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/family-laura-plummer-say-selfish-758807

It is bizarre - she is being presented as a naive young woman, but at the age of 33 I would have thought she knew that getting prescription controlled tablets "from a friend" and taking the vast amount of 300 with her was foolhardy to say the least. The chances that she really thought her BF would need 300 are vanishingly small; and her source sounds somewhat dubious. I would have no idea whatever where to get hold of 300 controlled drugs - the fact that she did know rings alarm bells.

Sadly she will have to take the consequences of her actions.

I’m relieved to find myself in agreement with all of you.
I thought I was being a little mean spirited to think she knew what she was doing.
It’s bad enough to break the law in this country where, whatever you may think of our police force and regime, you stand a pretty good chance of justice being done.
What are these people thinking. It beggars belief that they haven’t got the message that other countries don’t behave like us.

If an Egyptian came here and was caught with selling 300 Tramadols in the streets- how many years would he get?

Exactly, I do hope there will be a thorough investigation as to how she was able to get 300 of them in the first place.