The longest-serving British prisoner overseas has returned to the UK after serving 17 years in Thai jails - despite maintaining his innocence.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lanc ... 662065.stm
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The longest-serving British prisoner overseas has returned to the UK after serving 17 years in Thai jails - despite maintaining his innocence.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lanc ... 662065.stm
If this was a misscariage of justice then all i can say is what a poor guy having to suffer 17 years of hell. Still only he really knows the truth of his guilt or not.
If he was guilty i would have had him on a prison ship in the Bay of Bengal for 20 years scrubbing the decks daily.
Yo ho ho and a bottle of Irish
Ok the guy was a drug smuggler , so what ? he didn't deserve that long in a thai jail, child molesters and murderers deserve that.
Describing the conditions he said: "It was a hell-hole. You understand that 10% of the prison population die every year - about 5,000 prisoners
Wow - is this true?
the old police informer sting...I'd say the chances this guy was guilty are pretty slim.
of course that would be a Thai jail that's full of Thai & Burmese generals..you know the ones who actually run the trade.
Any drug smuggler is no better than a murderer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jetsam
Have you considered just how many people die due to the actions of drug smugglers being in the chain that makes this stuff available?
Smuggling drugs for commercial use should carry the death sentence no matter what nationality the carrier is.
more die because of alcohol-every day.
Guys,
I heard about this gentleman also, and was told he was offered repatriation on a number of occasions and turned it down , in the hope he would gain an Amnesty.
His case, I know nothing about.
"Any drug smuggler is no better than a murderer. Have you considered just how many people die due to the actions of drug smugglers being in the chain that makes this stuff available? Smuggling drugs for commercial use should carry the death sentence no matter what nationality the carrier is."
And that was written by somebody calling themselves Naughty BUT NICE???
Guilty or not, the 'hell hole' he says he was in does not seem to have had much of a detrimental
effect on him, judging by the photo accompanying the article in the bbc news link in the first post of this thread. He looks decidely rosy-cheeked and well-fed (that is always assuming the photo was taken recently) !