The British tourist facing drug smuggling charges over painkillers she took to Egypt has arrived in court to hear her fate.
Laura Plummer, 33, could face the death sentence if she is found guilty of the charges leveled against her.
Christmas Day is a normal working day in the Islamic country, and the shop assistant from Hull appeared in the dock handcuffed.
Laura Plummer (pictured), 33, could face the death sentence if she is found guilty of the charges leveled against her
The case revolves around 290 Tramadol she took with her to Egypt for her lover Omar Caboo, 33, who suffers from back pain.
She was arrested at Hurghada Airport on October 9, and signed a 38-page document written in Arabic as she thought it would grant her freedom.
It led to her being locked up and she has already spent ten weeks in prison sharing a 15ft square cell with 25 women inmates.
Her family have insisted she has been treated fairly by the Egyptian justice system, which will today decide whether to postpone her hearing or accept a bail offer.
The ordeal has been a hammer blow to the family, who claim Ms Plummer had no idea what she doing was illegal and was just ‘daft’.
Last month, her mother Roberta Sinclair said: ‘She did not realise what she was doing’.
She said Ms Plummer made no attempt to hide the medicine, which she had been given by a friend, and she thought it was a joke when she was first pulled over by officials when she flew into the country for a holiday with Mr Caboo.
Mrs Sinclair said her daughter was being held in terrible conditions in a communal cell with no beds, sharing with up to 25 other women.
She said she looked ‘unrecognisable’.
Ms Plummer is being held in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada, where she was arrested at the airport on October 9.
Her family has been told that she could face up to 25 years in jail, with one lawyer even mentioning the death penalty.
Ms Plummer’s Christmas Day court appearance was thought to be the beginning of her trial but there is a possibility the case could be adjourned to another date.