Laura Plummer, the English woman who was caught taking nearly 300 tablets of tramadol into Egypt, has been sentenced to 3 years in prison. Inevitably, various parties, particularly members of her family, are not happy about this and are claiming that she has been wrongly convicted. It's been said that Ms Plummer was acting out of the best of motives, that she didn't know that tramadol was illegal in Egypt, etc., etc.
Ms Plummer is reported to have had an Egyptian boyfriend for whom she acquired the drugs; she is also said to have loved Egypt as a country and to have visited there frequently. How then was she so ignorant of the local laws ? How could she even legally acquire as many as 300 tramadol tablets in the UK when no reputable doctor would prescribe so many to anyone in one go, let alone for someone entirely unknown to them ?
Ms Plummer has claimed that the drugs were given to her by a friend; if so, she must have known that these were of dubious origin. She then knowingly transported these to Egypt, paying no heed to the laws of that country, and is now paying the price. Forget the noise being stirred up by her family, she is guilty and, if this was a case of an Egyptian bringing similarly illegal drugs into the UK, there would be not the slightest sympathy shown for her.
Whether this was drug smuggling or simple stupidity makes no difference. Ms Plummer failed to abide by the laws of the country she was entering and that's all there is to it.
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