Briton jailed in Egypt over painkillers haul is transferred before mum can say goodbye

A BRITISH woman sentenced to three years in prison after painkillers were discovered in her luggage in Egypt has been transferred to a notorious jail, leaving her mother no chance to say goodbye, her family said.

Shop worker Laura Plummer (33), from Hull, was given the sentence by judges on Boxing Day, almost three months after she was found to be carrying 290 tramadol tablets in her suitcase.

The painkiller is legal in the UK but banned in Egypt.

The court was told she was taking the tablets for her Egyptian partner Omar Caboo, who suffers from severe back pain and had no idea what she was

Drugs sentence: Laura Plummer

doing was wrong. Ms Plummer’s sister, Rachel, said their mother, Roberta Synclair, had been told Ms Plummer would be held in police cells so she could visit her and take vital supplies.

But Ms Synclair travelled to the cells yesterday to find her daughter had already been transferred to a prison in Qena.

She said: “Mum was told that she was going to stay in the Safaga holding cell, the police holding cell, for the rest of the week so she can visit her, take her things that she needs, food and stuff.

“So she travelled in a taxi today all the way to Safaga, which is an hour away from where she is, to be told that Laura had gone.

“She went to Qena yesterday. Obviously that’s even more devastating for my mum because she’s not got to say goodbye to Laura.”