Plummer has said she was bringing the pills into the country for her Egyptian husband, who has chronic back pain. It’s so unfair.”Asked what the UK government could be doing to help Plummer at this stage, Rachel Plummer said she had no comment on any potential course of action. He has argued that Plummer did not traffic the tramadol, but brought it into the country for her partner’s use. Plummer was first arrested on 9 October after a scan of her bags found she was carrying a large supply of tramadol. Her family has said Plummer had no idea that what she doing was illegal and was just “daft”.

Source: The Guardian December 26, 2017 12:01 UTC