Brit ‘facing Egypt execution’ banged up in tiny cell with 25 women and a hole in the floor for a toilet
Laura Plummer, 33, was arrested on drug charges after being caught carrying painkillers for her Egyptian husband
A BRIT tourist facing execution for taking prescription painkillers into Egypt is crammed into a tiny cell with 25 other women and a hole in the floor as a toilet.
Laura Plummer, 33, was arrested with the tramadol tablets in her suitcase after she flew in to a Red Sea beach resort for a two-week break with her Egyptian husband.
And she is now being held on drug trafficking charges at Hurghada 1st Police Department with "murderers, heroin addicts and prostitutes", her family told .
Laura's sister Jayne Synclair, 40, said her she fears her little sister Laura Plummer will try to end her life after after 26 days locked in "repulsive" conditions.
She said: "Her life's in danger. She can't stay in there any longer or she will be murdered or kill herself.
"We went out to see her last week and my mum collapsed at the sight of her.
"She looked over at us and said 'mum, mum, please help me, help me'."
Laura’s mum Roberta Sinclair, 63, from Hull, sobbed: “She had no idea she was doing anything wrong.
“The painkillers were placed at the top of her suitcase, she wasn’t hiding them.
“We’ve been told she’s facing either 25 years in prison or the death penalty. We’re beside ourselves worrying that they’ll make an example of her.”
She was kept for five hours at the airport without an interpreter before signing a 38-page statement in Arabic which she thought would see her leave.
Instead she has been held in a 15ft by 15ft cell with 25 other women for nearly a month.
In her last text home the terrified shop worker begged her dad Neville: “I’m in trouble and I need your help.”
Nevile, 70, tried to reply but her phone was switched off. He has since spent £10,000 on legal bills.
Laura flew to Hurghada airport on October 9 for a fortnight stay with hubby Omar, 33. They met four years ago and she jets out to see him four times a year.
He suffers back pain after an accident, so she took 29 strips of tramadol, each containing ten tablets, plus some Naproxen given to her by a pal.
In Britain tramadol is prescription only, but it is banned in Turkey where addicts use it as a heroin substitute.
A pill sells for 8p — meaning Laura could have made just £23.20 even if she wanted to.
Roberta and daughters Rachel, 31, and Jayne Sinclair, 40, have visited her and she has been in court twice, each time being returned to cells for 15 days. She is due back in court on Thursday.
Jayne said: “She is still wearing the same clothes she flew out in.
"When she came into court that first time she looked dead behind the eyes and was handcuffed to a 6ft 4in policeman holding a machine gun.
“She kept saying, ‘Please help me, please help me’. She looked like a little child again.”
The Foreign Office confirmed: “We are supporting a British woman and her family following her detention in Egypt.”
Tramadol £40million bill
TRAMADOL is a strong prescription-only painkiller related to morphine.
It is often given after surgery, for toothache or for long-term conditions.
More than seven million prescriptions were dispensed last year, costing the NHS £40million.
