Laura Plummer, 33, stands accused of illegally taking 300 tramadol tablets into Eygpt where the prescription painkillers are a controlled substance. “These papers will prove she was telling the truth.”Plummer’s lawyer is understood to have acted for British citizens in Egypt before. Tramadol is the most abused drug in Egypt, according to a government minister. The synthetic opioid is only available on prescription but is often obtained illegally and used as a heroin substitute, as it is elsewhere in the world. A Foreign Office spokeswoman said its officials were “supporting a British woman and her family following her detention in Egypt”.

Source: The Guardian November 11, 2017 09:59 UTC