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Thailand jails British teen for life

BANGKOK: - A Thai court has jailed 19-year-old Briton Michael Alan Connell for life for trying to smuggle 3,400 ecstasy tablets into Thailand, his lawyer says.

Defence lawyer Prutti Kuranon told Reuters on Wednesday that Connell had escaped a death sentence by confessing and would appeal against the life term.

Connell was arrested in November at Bangkok International Airport for trying to smuggle in two moisturiser cream jars stuffed with the tablets, which fetch 1,000 baht (14 pounds) apiece on the streets of the Thai capital.

Connell told police during interrogation he was unaware that the jars he had bought at a department store in Manchester contained the pills and said they could have been switched during his stopover in Dubai, a court statement said.

The Customs Department, whose officials arrested Connell, said in November the ecstasy pills, estimated to have a Thai street value of 3.4 million baht (50,000 pounds), were wrapped in plastic inside the jars and hidden in his luggage.

--Reuters 2004-03-24

[stogie bear]

Ha ha... I hope the tosser rots! What a buffoon! Why, oh why would anyone bring any kind of drugs INTO Thailand? Teenager or not he knew what he was doing. Screw him.

[Guest]

ya, but it sounds to me like he was set up by his connection on the Thai end of things. otherwise why would his bags be scrutinized so closely? I have entered Thailand at least 30 times and gone through the 'nothing to declare' lane without so much as a second glance, and no one once has ever entered my bags. this moron obviously didn't have the stuff well concealed [moisturizer cream?], but the police wouldn't have been looking there in the first place if they weren't tipped off, IMO.

life in prision....he is looking at 20 years minimum at Bang Kwang, "The Big Tiger". for anyone who wants to know what this kid is facing, read "The Damage Done" but Warren Fellowes, an Aussie heroin trafficker.

poor sap

Jon

[Road Runner]

Hello Gents,

My past experience concerning drug smuggling (not me honest!) was of truck loads of frozen pork being stopped. Each of the 2 concerned contained several kilograms of drugs. Why pork? - unlike other meats it still smells quite stongly when it is frozen so it gives problems to sniffer dogs.

A certain gentleman pointed out to me that whoever was shipping the drugs would put about 98-99% in one transport and the other 1-2% in the hands of an innocent dupe. To distract attention from the 98-99% they would tip the police off to the innocent dupe.

I'm not saying this bloody idiot is innocent - he in all probability was working on his own to make a quick buck. What does worry me is that IF he is the dupe - then organised crime has probably started shipping ecstasy tablets into LOS.

As they say in the adverts - don't agree to carry any sealed packages from anyone - even if you know them!

RR.

I wonder what department store he shopped at in Manchester

[Guest]

RR...watch a movie called "Brokedown Palace"  with Claire Danes and some other even-hotter skank; came out about  3 years  ago.  It was 'based on a true story' and told the  story of  2  Yanks in BKK; they are hit on  by  some suave british motherfucker[not stogie, promise]  who makes a play for one of them and they have a brief fling in BKK.   a  few days later as she is flying out of thailand, he plants 5 Kilos of heroin in her bags and  tips off the coppers, while   4 or 5 other mules  get through THEIR loads untouched.  as you described, it was better for this gang to lose 5  k's and have the cops distracted while getting the majority of the heroin through customs.   not a great movie but the tale is  cautionary;  keep your carry-on shit to yourself and locked up!  imagine if some clown did that to me in Tokyo while changing planes......puts  5000 tabs of X in my bag  so his buddies can get the rest through......I am facing the same  shit as this guy and would have no defense.  yes, it seems like this guy is bullshitting,  but you never know.

      tell me something.....since they are now  putting  ecstasy in the moisturizer cream jars in Manchester department stores, are there a lot of unusually-happy housewives filling the streets and partying  till all hours these days?

        Jon

[Guest]

I Heard on the news that the poor sod got a jail sentence of
99 years, Guess a life sentence in thailand means you kiss your life away.

[Guest]

Life is Life in Thailand I just wish it was so in my country. The scum coming to thailand these days simply dont understand that. A British passport means nothing in thailand you might as well have a Pakistani one, as much use as an ashtray on a motorcycle.

Just go to Pattaya and see those english football pricks coming to thailand and behaving like animals while defiling my blessed flag with there peasant ways !!! They think that being Brits abroad make them untouchable. They abuse the thai girls and the thai people and because of the thais peoples tolerance there actions are laughed off. They think the thais are too laid back to catch them out. Wrong again you fools.

If he was a stoolie so fucking what, I am glad they caught the fucking mank degenerate rat. Those scum come to Thailand thinking Tony Blair is gonna get them out of jail eh ? Wrong again my friend ! Our dear Prime Minister is happier to free muslim terrorist scum caught armed to the teeth in afghanisan rather than help a real british national. Both need to rot in jail and rot he will that little bastard !!!

When will these pee brains ever learn about drugs and thailand ? It seems only in the worst prison system in the world being fucked over by the guards and the other criminals alike that these fools will realise the error of there ways.

What i dont understand is why it takes a rat knawing off your nuts in the middle of the night to convince you that you are dumb?

99 years, 99 years.

No more burgers for that cunt - hope he likes rice with weebles in it and ditch water to wash it down.

Bricktop

[Guest]

read the book I mentioned called "The Damage Done".... it's available at the airport and any Asia books throughout the country. fascinating read and you will see what this kid is about to face, the idiot. that life sentence will be commuted to 20-25 years down the road but he sure as hell is facing some pretty bleak times during the years ahead.

Brick....I like english folk and my heritage is from the UK and Ireland so I will always cut slack to my ancestors. but I must agree with some of your comments about the english arseholes I come across in Pattaya sometimes, getting tanked up at 3 in the afternoon and playing snooker and darts all night and yelling and causing trouble and basically bringing attention to themselves. of course not ALL brits act like this, but some of the ones I have seen give your country a bad name, I must say.

this dickhead is no different. he will have a long time to think about smuggling in that X, which probably would have only made him enough to live on for a year or 2 [and in Thailand at that!]. 3400 pills of ecstasy, no matter what the profit margin, is not enough to make anyone rich.

Jon

[Guest]

Jon my friend - I am more proud of you for what you achieve than those pond life that dare to call themselves English. You see you have class but more importantly you have a fine brain !!!

These amoeba are by definition unicellular ! They only move in 1 direction guided by beer and profanity. What happens is 10/10 times these scum end up in prison and quite rightly so as you would treat your dog better than these untermunsh !

Jon I am ashamed of these hooligans but they will learn under the full force of thai law !!!

I sleep well at night in Thailand knowing full well that my thai police friends NEVER take any shit from these idiots ! Most will be lucky to leave alive if they are particularily offensive and I shit you not on that score !!! Those so called "hard" nuts leave Thailand smelling of shit NEVER to return to the blessed Kingdom !

Truely brother,

Bricktop

[dommy6]

Absolutely stupid. Anyone going into a foreign country to commit a crime deserve everything that country's justice system throws at them. Visitors and tourist should realise they are guests when in a foreign country and should respect the laws and culture of that country from drug trafficking to hooliganisim.

I bought "Damage done" when I was in Thailand and read it everyday on the beach in Phuket. Even in the beautiful envoiroment of phuket beaches it gave me the shivers. At times I had to get up and have a swim. I was even weary about crossing the road illegally.

"Damage done" should be required reading for anyone with a bit of criminal bent or others who play up in an unsavoury manner before they enter the kingdom.

In any case this guy will most likley serve a few years in a Thai jail before he gets transfered back to the UK to serve out his sentance under Thai jurisdication. Two Australian ladies actually arrived in Sydney today from Bangkok after a few years in a Thai jail to serve the remainder of their sentance.

Anther book I picked up in Bangkok is " Forget you have a daughter" by Sandra Gregory. It tells of a British girl jailed for trying to smuggle out heroin out of Thailand. According to her story she did it out of desperation to raise money to go back to the UK after 3 years in Thailand and dead broke. Not a pretty story.

Regards

[Road Runner]

Hello Jon,

Yes I know the film you mean. One I think is better is called Bangkok Hilton - stars Nicole Kidman (Yum yum!) and a British actor called Denholm Elliot. One of the opening scenes shows the Thai's previous favourite execution method - the machine gun! - gives me the shivers when I see it

tell me something.....since they are now  putting  ecstasy in the moisturizer cream jars in Manchester department stores, are there a lot of unusually-happy housewives filling the streets and partying  till all hours these days?

Don't know about the department stores putting tablets in mosturizer jars, but ecstacy is so widely available in the UK that you can buy it in nearly every club and on many city street corners. I believe the price can be as low as £1 - about $1.80

RR.

[The Violator]

He'll do 12 years and be transferred to a hotel in the UK.