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
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
I spoke into his eyes. " I thought you died a long,-- a long long time ago".
" OH NO! not me, i never lost control, your face to face with the Man who sold the world"
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.
Ofcourse I go with other Falang, it's my job, but you are the only one I love :)
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.
I'm only a light drinker. When it's daylight I drink.
Any drug smuggler is no better than a murderer.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.
I'm only a light drinker. When it's daylight I drink.
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???
"The fruits of peace and tranquility... are the greatest goods... while those of its opposite, strife, are unbearable evils. Hence we ought to wish for peace, to seek it if we do not already have it, to conserve it once it is attained, and to repel with all our strength the strife which is opposed to it. To this end individual[s]... and in even greater degree groups and communities are obliged to help one another... from the bond or law of human society." [Marsilio dei Mainardini (c.1275-1342), Defensor Pacis]
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) !
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