Laura Plummer was given a three-year sentence on Boxing Day for possessing 290 tramadol tablets
The family of a British woman who was, on Boxing Day, jailed for three years in Egypt for taking painkillers into the country have said that she is giving fellow inmates food to stop them assaulting her.
The Foreign Office has now told the sisters of Plummer who was sentenced for possessing 290 tramadol tablets to postpone a visit until they know where she will serve her jail term.
Ms Plummer, 33, a shop assistant from Hull, was arrested at Hurghada airport in October. She had insisted that she was bringing the tablets for Omar Caboo, her Egyptian partner, who has back pain.
Ms Plummer’s family said that she had been assaulted and robbed by prisoners who targeted her because of her nationality. Her sister, Jayne Synclair, 40, said:
“She shares some of her food with them now . . . She’s gradually getting to know them a bit and getting along with them. They have to live off cheese and bread given once a day if no one visits them.”
Her mother, Roberta Synclair, took a seven-hour round trip to the notorious Qena prison on Thursday before being told that her daughter was in Hurghada, the city she had departed from. Ms Plummer’s sisters were told not to book flights in case she was moved.
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