taxexile
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i am not a lawyer and am not trying to give advice, but to me, your best bet would be to return to your home country,change your name by deed poll,get a new passport, and return to thailand where you are happiest.
getting involved with the thai legal system may be an expensive gamble with no guarantee of a good outcome. a thai lawyer that you can trust may be able to advise you on that.
good luck
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bob
its precisely attitudes like that,sympathy for the young lad, poor kid,bit thick and naive, etc. coupled with lax sentencing,that will encourage more and more of these young lads and ladesses to take risks.
if the mules are put off from carrying the stuff, then it wont get carried,or at least less will get carried.
maybe he will tell the thai authorities who this shipment was destined for and maybe someone further up the chain will be caught.maybe.
if he bought the stuff in the uk,then he will probably have been dealing small time on the streets and will not be short of money for the trip. he may have had to borrow some money to buy the pills.he was a small time rascal with big ideas.
wanting a pile of money to count and spend.
now he can count the cockroaches as they scurry around his feet.
i dont feel sorry for him in the slightest.
there are plenty of honest ways to make money. its a choice we all have to make.
and a nineteen year old street lad from the uk is not some naive pitiful creature,they know the score. if they put their guile to better use,they could do well in life.
but a lot of people will always look for the easiest way, its down to laziness.
often the easiest way entails activities of varying degrees of criminality.
and yes, it would be nice to catch mr. big , but they are often too clever.
probably starting out as young mules, just like this kid,but got away with it a few times and progressed to bigger and bigger deals,eventually employing his own mules.
thats why i'm pleased they caught this lad and i hope they throw the book at him and lock him up for a long time. we,the public,need protecting from these people,
and it is the duty of the police and the courts to provide that protection.
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at least he wont be costing the uk taxpayer anything for the next few years.
if uk laws were stricter and enforced properly,he might not have embarked on this stupid enterprise. if benefits werent so easy to obtain,he might have had to get a job,and along with it, a more responsible attitude to life.
if he really has tried to bring drugs into the country,then he has brought all this upon himself and deserves whatever is coming his way.
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axel,john de lorean was his name.
he took the british government for millions in subsidies and grants to open his factory in northern ireland. unfortunately,the sports car produced was poorly engineered,poorly designed and failed to sell. thats when he allegedly went into drugs to raise money to save the company (i.e. his reputation and ego)
as for the jug eared bum from manchester, he will learn a valuable lesson.
the £50,000 profit he would have made from this ill-fated venture could have been earned in 3 years as a hard working labourer in the uk.
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from the uk daily telegraph...wednesday
The father of a British teenager arrested on suspicion of trying to smuggle 3,400 ecstasy tablets into Thailand said last night he had no idea he had even left the country.Michael Connell, 19, from Bury, Greater Manchester, was seized after an X-ray machine at Bangkok's international airport detected the pills.
He faces the mandatory death penalty if convicted but death sentences passed on foreigners are usually commuted on appeal to life imprisonment.
Connell, an unemployed labourer, was held late on Monday evening, having travelled to Bangkok via Dubai.
His father, Derek Connell, 48, a taxi driver, learned of his arrest when he tuned in to a local radio station at 9am yesterday. Last night, he and his former wife, Maureen, were waiting to hear from the Foreign Office.
Mr Connell said: "This has hit me like a bombshell. We didn't even know he'd gone. He's no money and I've not lent him any, so how the ###### he's managed to get over there is beyond me.
"I'm just in shock. I don't know what to do."
His last contact with his son was late last week when the teenager rang with a request to borrow £5 "for a video and something from the chippy". He loaned him the money and gave him a lift to the video hire shop.
The next time he saw him was on a television screen, flanked by Thai police officers, handcuffed and seated at a table laden with drugs.
Michael Connell left his local secondary school with no qualifications. Since then, says his father, he has "probably not worked more than a month in his life".
He had travelled to Bangkok a year ago to visit a friend. "He went out to see this lad I don't know," his father said. "He brought me back a [Manchester]United shirt."
Mr Connell went on: "He'll be petrified."
Beaches in southern Thailand are approaching the high season for raves and full moon parties at which many young European visitors take drugs.
Connell, who has a brother, Adam, 17, is the youngest Briton to face Thailand's tough anti-drugs laws since the arrests of the Birmingham teenagers Karyn Smith and Patricia Cahill, aged 17 and 18, in 1990.
If convicted he might face eight years in a Thai jail before becoming eligible for transfer back to Britain under a "Prisoner Transfer Treaty".
Because of their age Smith and Cahill were each given a royal pardon after serving three years in jail. Since Connell is a little older, his chances of early release could be weaker.
when i first read the story,i was prepared to have some sympathy for him on the basis that he may have been set up.
after reading this article,and if the article can be believed,then any sympathy i might have had has just completely evaporated.
another lazy yob,in all probability on benefits courtesy of the british taxpayer,using those benefits to fund a trip abroad to smuggle drugs for personal gain.
long may he remain in the sweaty confines of a thai prison,with plenty of time to reflect on the errors of his ways.
i sincerely hope it is many years until he can get "a video and something from the chippy" again.
he fully deserves all that is coming to him,
and, more importantly, some parents' teenage child may have been spared any harm from the drugs involved.
well done thai customs.
another one bites the dust!
© Copyright of Telegraph Group Limited 2003.
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its a asame to be so young and be going where he's going i really feel for the guy and hope he lives to see a thai lady again
if he knew he was taking drugs out of the country then he must of known the risks he was taking, and therefore deserves all he gets.
if, however , he didnt know what was in his bags,if someone with a grudge had planted them, then he is in a whole heap of trouble,not of his making.
but 5000 tablets is a sizeable package. it would be hard to slip that into someones bag.
i wonder who he shared his hotel room with last night?
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pnustedt
who asked you to sign?
if your marriage is not registered in thailand why did they insist you sign ?
our marriage is registered in the uk,nothing registered in thailand,my wife has uk and thai passports but when we(she) bought some land last year, i was just the invisible falang in the background. wasn't involved at all.
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there is a 25 metre open air public pool at the back of the small park next to the emporium mall on sukhumvit (between 22 and 24)
it costs about 100 baht for a years membership,and 15baht per visit after joining.
it is pretty good for uninterrupted lengths.
they also have free aerobic sessions at 6pm every day close by the pool.
40 minute jumping and stretching to music. usually over 100 thais there, its a superb way for keeping in shape if you can get over the embarassment of leaping around to 70's disco music in public.
i think most thai city parks have these sessions. few falangs but lots of lovely thai ladies. mosey on over as they say.
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that is also from the terms of service.
and postings on this topic,even though it is not by any stretch of the imagination "thailand related " , have broken most of the above guidelines.
come on admin, do your job properly.
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whilst i heartily endorse lengthy sentences for drug smuggling, i would also like to voice my concerns about the possibilities of "fitting up", poor evidence gathering and false accusations
there must be people in thai jails,thais and foriegners,who should not be there.
it pays to be careful who you associate with, and who you annoy here.
years ago,a "girl friend" who i had asked to move out of my apartment went into a fierce sulk and told the maid that she was going to get some heroin and plant it in my apartment the next day and inform the police.
thankfully,the maid told me and within half an hour i was out of the apartment and in the back of a cab to a hotel for a day or two whilst i found a new place to live.
whether this girl would have done it or not i dont know.
but had she done it, i dont think for one minute i could of proved my innocence in the matter if the police had wanted to get a result.
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What a surprise, the original poster has not been flamed to Death by the cynics yet...............
Come on lads, where are you all?....
we are still here,begs, just waiting and watching,taking our time, for the right moment ,to unleash the torrents of venom,of bile and of cynicism............
but, maybe the original poster,if his post is serious,should,if it comes to it, learn the hard way.
a good hard knock certainly prepares you well for the next time, and then you will be so much better equipped to deal with it all again should the necessity arise.
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you have been the dog, now do the decent thing by your unborn child and its mother. accepting the relationship has ended,offer financial support and offer to be there as a father. she may not want any of that. plenty of thai ladies seem to bring up children on their own,but probably not so many with her kind of background,especially a look kreung.
good luck.
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Drunk Norwegian Amok In Air
in Thailand News - Discussion
they should have let him get off the plane when he wanted to.