Husband of Brit Laura Plummer jailed in Egypt for smuggling illegal painkillers is ‘already married with kids’
THE husband of jailed Brit Laura Plummer, who was convicted of smuggling illegal painkillers into Egypt, is thought to already be married with kids.
The clothes shop assistant from Hull was jailed for three years in Egypt after airport security found 290 tramadol tablets in her suitcase.
The 33-year-old was bringing them into the country for her husband Omar Saad, also 33, who suffers from a bad back caused by a car accident years earlier.
It is understood that Laura had never had a boyfriend before meeting Omar on holiday in Sharm el Sheikh at a Hilton hotel in 2014.
Despite being married, the pair "fell in love" and decided on a long-distance relationship.
She visited Egypt for a fortnight several times a year to spend time with her husband who was once sacked from his hotel lifeguard job over a stash of cannabis.
Laura is believed to have even met Omar's legal wife although it's unknown what she thought of the bizarre love triangle.
Omar's wife is understood to live with their children in the town of Beni Suef on the river Nile.
Laura is now detained in a shared cell at a police station in Hurghada and is expected to be transferred to a prison.
Her family were left devastated last week when it emerged her husband was once sacked from his hotel lifeguard job over a stash of cannabis.
They told how Omar Saad, 33, was sharing a room with five other workers at the Hilton Sharks Bay Resort in Sharm el Sheikh in 2015 when the illegal drug was found.
All six of the workers - including Omar - were dismissed.
Devastated Omar insists the hashish - a potent form of cannabis - was nothing to do with him and that he had no idea it was even in the room.
Laura was jailed for three years on Boxing Day for carrying 290 painkilling Tramadol tablets in her suitcase at the start of a two week holiday to see Omar.
Officers refused to believe her story and insisted Omar was a figment of her imagination and that she was, in fact, a lone drug smuggler.
The Sun later tracked Omar down and uncovered a treasure trove of evidence that proved Laura was telling the truth about his back.
Lawyers expected the documents and Omar's testimony would turn the case "180 degrees" - but she was still jailed.
Speaking about the latest development Omar insisted he had nothing to hide.
He told Sun Online: "I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. I was sharing a room with five other workers when it was found.
"They sacked all of us and there was nothing I could do to stop it. I'm mortified that this is coming out now - especially when Laura needs our help."
He added: "Laura is innocent and I will do anything to help her.
"I had no idea she was bringing them in the first place, but what she did was out of the goodness of her heart to help me.
"I am so sorry to the family, for what has happened, but we will wake up from this nightmare soon."
An appeal is set to be launched but could take up to 10 months to be heard.
She collapsed after the judges revealed their sentence on Boxing Day and wailed: "They've got it wrong."
The family's local MP Karl Turner said: "I am hopeful that good sense will eventually prevail.
"This is a damning indictment actually of the Egyptian authorities in the sense that good sense and fairness certainly hasn't prevailed in this case.
"This is a decent woman who has made a terrible mistake who shouldn't be incarcerated in any prison, never mind an Egyptian prison."
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