Laura Plummer was jailed for three years on Boxing Day, after a court in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada ruled she had attempted to smuggle in the 320 illegal painkillers tramadol tablets.
The 33-year-old, who had arrived in the country for a holiday with her partner in October, claimed they were for her Egyptian partner, who suffers from back pain. Her family insisted that she had no idea that what she was doing was illegal.
Plummer’s local MP Karl Turner described the result as “devastating”.
