Dad of jailed Brit Laura Plummer begs authorities to move her from hellhole Egypt jail full of prostitutes and jihadis ‘before it’s too late’
Neville Plummer wants 33-year-old Laura, from Hull, East Yorks, moved from 'ISIS-infested' Qena prison
THE dad of a British holidaymaker jailed for bringing banned painkillers into Egypt has begged for his daughter to be moved from her notorious hellhole prison.
Neville Plummer believes 33-year-old Laura, from Hull, East Yorks, is in "extreme danger" after she was secretly moved to a jail ";crawling with Jihadi terrorists".
The 70-year-old retired freight company boss wants her to be transferred from Qena jail to a facility in Cairo, which is close to the British embassy and where another Brit is being held.
He told the : “My daughter is in extreme danger. We want her moved immediately, not in a few weeks' time when it could be too late.”
The shop worker was jailed for three years on Boxing Day for smuggling 290 tramadol pills - which are legal in the UK - in her suitcase for her sick husband who she met at a Red Sea resort.
Dad-of-six Mr Plummer said Laura, who he affectionately refers to as Coo Coo, has "never been in any trouble" and has an "innocent heart" and "forgiving nature".
He added: "The only thing she hated were druggies. If they came into her store it made her sick. I can’t bear thinking of her in that prison with the rapists, murderers, prostitutes and jihadis.
“She’s so delicate. That girl was born with an innocent heart and she will have an innocent heart as long as she lives.”
Mr Plummer told the he is also worried sick about what he has been told about Egyptian prison guards, including cases of them raping inmates.
Laura worked at the Quiz clothes shop in Hull and would return to her mum Roberta's house every evening where she'd settle down in time for Emmerdale.
Her brother James, 31, said she loves routine and would be tucked up in her single bed under the same dolphin clock she's had on the wall since she was 10 by 9pm every night.
She had met lifeguard Omar Abd El Azim Mohamed Saad, 33, on a previous holiday to Egypt and continued to fly out and visit him during their long-distance relationship.
Mr Plummer said Laura's nightmare was almost avoided after she nearly forgot the drugs which landed her in prison.
He said: "She packed the painkillers in a see-through polythene bag and put them right at the top of her suitcase.
“They were the last thing she had packed as she’d nearly forgotten them. I wish she had.”
He described how he got a heartbreaking message from her after she flew out earlier this year saying: "Dad, please ring me... I'm in trouble."
But when he tried to call back minutes later her phone was switched off and had been taken by Egyptian authorities.
A Safaga court jailed her on Boxing Day over 290 tramadol pills in her suitcase when she arrived at Hurghada international airport in October.
Laura had been due to be moved to cockroach-infested Qena prison later this week but was woken at night and driven 100 miles in chains inside an armoured truck before being made to strip and given an all-white prison uniform.
She will begin in solitary confinement because of her high profile but will mix with others in days.
Laura’s sister Jayne Synclair, 40, said: “The Foreign Office were concerned. It’s our worst fear come true.
"She’ll be in a cell with terrorists, IS brides and killers. She won’t last a minute.”
Jayne previously said of her sister: “She is not the strongest person - she's already having a nervous breakdown and is being kicked and punched in the holding prison.”
And speaking on GMB today, she added: "Mum went to visit her yesterday because she thought she was still at the police holding cell.
"And then she found out that she’d been taken to Qena without anyone knowing, no one let us know."
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Mum Roberta Synclair, 63, added: “I wanted to speak to her but didn’t even get to say goodbye.
“She’ll have been terrified. I wanted to tell her everyone is doing their best to help her."
Family members in England say they have had no contact with Laura, who has no access to a phone.
Jayne added: “We’ve all been sentenced. It’s destroyed our family.
“We don’t sleep, we don’t eat. We’re petrified for her. We’re terrified.
“All we do is think about Laura. It’s affecting my mum’s health, it’s affecting my father’s health.
“We can’t concentrate at work, we’ve got little children, we’ve got to look after them We’re crying all the time.”
The Foreign Office said last night: “We’re assisting her and her family.”
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