Woman Sentenced For Three Years In Egyptian Prison For Carrying Husband’s Pain Pills
(CNN) A British woman who says she was carrying painkillers for her ailing partner was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison and fined the equivalent of $5,611 by an Egyptian court.
Laura Plummer, 33, was arrested on October 9 at Hurghada International Airport on the Red Sea after police reportedly found 290 tablets of tramadol in her suitcase.
Plummer, a shop assistant from Hull in east Yorkshire, was charged with drug possession and smuggling. Her lawyers argue the traveler misunderstood a question in court and gave a response that appeared to be a confession.
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This is why you don’t fuck around in other countries. I feel like England and the U.S. are pretty comparable in terms of what you can get away with in terms of drugs, alcohol, and similar debauchery, and well I feel like we can Egypt to the list of places that do not take as kindly to any type of debauchery. By debauchery I obviously mean carrying your husband’s pain pills, and accidentally confessing to a drug smuggling crime. I mean this could happen to anyone. You start by being a good partner and picking up your significant other’s prescription, and next thing you know your mixing up of the subjunctive and the past-perfect tense have you headed to prison.
Alright, we get it Egypt, you don’t fuck around. If I go to Egypt I’m not doing anyone any favors. You pick up your own fucking prescriptions, you stick up for your own fucking friends. I’m not saying a word that’s not in English, and I’m definitely not speaking to anyone who can throw me in jail because I didn’t spend enough time on Duo Lingo Egypt edition.
