Briton in jail with jihadis, rapists

A BRITISH tourist jailed for smuggling painkillers into Egypt has been secretly transferred to a jail which is crawling with jihadi terrorists, her family claim.

Laura Plummer, 33, from Hull, collapsed in court after being sentenced to three years in the notorious hellhole Qena prison after being found with 290 tramadol pills in her suitcase.

Her devastated family, who have described Laura as “naive”, say they fear she will die in the infamous jail as the Foreign Office make attempts to move the shop worker to Cairo.

Trembling Laura escaped the death penalty after being found with the pills in her suitcase at Hurghada Airport in Egypt in October, but was told she would still be locked up and was fined £4205 ($A7249) by the judge.

Yesterday her sister Jayne Synclair revealed the British Foreign Office intervened to block Laura being sent to the “dangerous” Qena prison.

But after turning up to visit her daughter at a jail in Cairo her mum Roberta Synclair, 64, discovered Laura has already been moved 240km to the notorious hellhole.

Jayne, 40, said: “It’s really underhand – my mum went to Cairo to where they were told she would be but when she turned up she wasn’t there.

“They have slyly taken her to where the British Foreign Office told us she would never be placed – but the Egyptian authorities have already moved her there.

“Our biggest fear with this scenario has been confirmed – she will be sharing a tiny cell with jihadi terrorists and rapists. I honestly dread to think. Laura won’t survive a day in there – let alone three years.

“She won’t even make it through that – I can’t believe they’ve even still sent her there.”

The jail is north of Luxor in the strict Arab state and Jayne is fearful that her sister won’t make it out alive.

Her distraught sister claims that along with being beaten, Laura’s cellmates have “stolen everything from her”.

Laura has endured three months of hell in the notorious Hurghada women’s prison which is infested with rats.

The family have also admitted that Laura is suicidal after sharing a 5sq m cell with 25 other women including murderers, heroin addicts and prostitutes.

The 33-year-old had to use a hole in the ground as a toilet in sweltering 40C heat. Jayne said: “She’s a target in there because she’s a foreigner.”