Another dumb Brit arrested in Thailand!

[f0xxee]

How can anyone be so deluded as to think they are not under Thai Law when they are in Thailand, or in the fact the local law and customs wherever they are?
What a bloody embarrassment to Australia.
Shouting and yelling at a judge? in Thailand? Bloody fool. Welcome to hell, Sunshine.

[Nemisis]

Where was that foxxee?

[Road Runner]

Mr Purcell, 29, a former soldier, refused to stand when told and then yelled at the judge that he would not accept the court's right to try him. ''Nobody in this country has authority over me,'' he said.

Well I guess it's one way of trying to keep your cause in the public eye.
(Terrorism and/or change of government is all about publicity).

I don't know what the penalty for contempt of court is in Thailand.
The legal system is very similar to the UK so I guess the penalties are too.
If so that would be unlimited jail terms and/or unlimited fines!

A Thai judge is likely to have a lower threshold for being shouted at than one in Oz so it could well be a risky strategy on Purcell's part.

Mind you if he's crazy enough to get mixed up in an insurgency in a foreign country........

RR.

[rxpharm]

Our two "heroes" have another day in court with the crazed Australian at it again, from Bangkok Post

Court OKs holding Brit, Aussie
Published: 5/06/2010 at 07:52 AM
Online news: Local News

The Criminal Court has extended the detention of an Australian and a Briton, as their actions during last month's red shirt protests are investigated, including allegations they incited violence.


An outburst by Purcell did not save him or Savage (inset) from another seven days in detention.
Australian Conor Purcell, 30, and Briton Jeff Savage, 49, took part in the red shirt protests that occupied city streets for more than two months.

They were detained for violating an emergency decree that was in effect during the protest, and face up to two years in prison if convicted.

The Criminal Court ruling yesterday allows authorities to hold them without formal charges for seven more days. Reporters were allowed to attend the hearing but could not take notes or pictures.

Mr Purcell shouted as he left the court: "We've been held as part of an investigation. We've been charged for nothing. This is Thailand's presumption of innocence. I'm in chains."

The Australian, from Perth, allegedly made incendiary speeches inciting violence from the protesters' main stage.

Mr Savage, who is from Kent, was shown in a video posted on YouTube purportedly shouting, "We're gonna smash the Central[World] Plaza, we're gonna loot everything, gold, watches, everything, and then we're gonna burn it to the ground."

CentralWorld was among the innercity buildings torched in a series of arson attacks on May 19, after security forces stormed the protesters' main encampment, and the protest leaders surrendered.

Mr Savage claims he was not involved in the burning of the mall. He has acknowledged having been at state owned Channel 3 TV station when protesters set it on fire, but says he did not participate. Mr Purcell claims to have been beaten in prison, though his lawyer said he is in good health.

Meanwhile, the Criminal Court yesterday approved a Centre for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation request for a seven-day extension of activist Somyot Prueksakasemsuk's detention, said Mr Somyot's lawyer Krisadang Nutjaras. About 800 consumers, NGOs, civic groups and labour unions from around the world have delivered a petition to Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva urging him to free Mr Somyot.

The Holland-based Clean Clothes Campaign has led a global online petition calling on the government to release Mr Somyot, who was arrested under the emergency decree on May 24 and is being held in solitary confinement at Adisorn military base in Saraburi.

The petition said extending Mr Somyot's detention violated international human rights and judicial law as no charges had been pressed against him and no proper inquiry session had been arranged during his detention.

[guydesavoy]

They are now reporting that Purcell is Irish-Australian

He said he was being kept in a small dirty cell and had been attacked by 7 people..a 'planned' attack he said.

[f0xxee]

Actually he's 50-50.... Irish Intelligence blessed with an Aussie mouth. What a blessing to both countries he is....

[Bumpa STIKKA]

I'm starting to like him! He'll be a celebrity if he makes it home alive!

[f0xxee]

Why don't you start marketing "Free Connor" T-shirts?
Or send a bunch of Ladyboys to lift his spirits?
He will make it home one day... he'll just be a slimmer, more humble fellow who defecates donut shaped poos.

[f0xxee]

What a waste of my 1000th post.... Damn it I was saving it for a special occasion.

[boomer29]

Even a 2 year sentence in a Thai jail is a life sentence....   they'll come out with an asshole the diameter of a beer can and every STD known to man including terminal HIV. Even big-mouthed farangs get "the treatment" when facing 10 or 12 Thai convicts (and guards).

They may not deserve it for their crimes, but they deserve it for their stupidity!