UPDATE: Hull woman jailed for three years for smuggling drugs into Egypt
Laura Plummer was arrested after she was found to be carrying 290 tramadol tablets in her suitcase.
UPDATE: The family of a British woman, jailed in Egypt for drug smuggling, say she's already been transferred to prison - two days earlier than expected.
Yesterday, Laura Plummer was sentenced to three years for trying to bring banned painkillers into the country - which are legal in the UK.
33 year old Laura Plummer was held after taking in a type of painkiller that's banned in the country.
Laura's family, who have described her as naive'', said she was taking the tablets for her Egyptian partner Omar Caboo, who suffers from severe back pain.
According to a Facebook group set up by her family, she appeared in court in Egypt on Boxing Day and was jailed for three years.
Her relatives insist they were for her boyfriend's severe back pain, and that they'll appeal her sentence
The family said her lawyers lodged an immediate appeal.
Ms Plummer appeared in court on Christmas Day but the judge adjourned the case for a day because of her condition, according to her sister, Rachel.
Their mother Roberta Sinclair travelled to Egypt for the hearings.
The Plummer family has previously said Ms Plummer had no idea that what she doing was illegal and was just daft''.
They said she did not try to hide the medicine, which she had been given by a friend, and she thought it was a joke when she was pulled over by officials after arriving for a holiday with her partner.
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.
Ms Plummer is being held in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada, where she was arrested at the airport on October 9.
Her family had been told that she could face up to 25 years in jail, with one lawyer even mentioning the death penalty