Man Who Escaped From Notorious Thai Jail Reveals How He Did It

[Jonathan Fairfield]

 

By Claire Reid

 

The only Westerner to ever escape from a notorious Thai prison has revealed that an umbrella was key to his success.

 

David McMillan, who was born in London, had a '40-year career' as a drug smuggler, which took him all around the world.

 

But an admitted 'career lowlight' was when he was sentenced to death by firing squad in Thailand after being convicted of trafficking heroin.

 

He was sent to the notorious maximum security Klong Prem Central prison in Bangkok, which houses up to 20,000 inmates across numerous buildings.

 

Full story:https://www.ladbible.com/community/interesting-man-who-escaped-from-notorious-thai-jail-reveals-how-he-did-it-20210719

 

-- Lad Bible 2021.07.25 

[simon43]

I wonder if Lad Bible would be so keen to promote this convicted drug dealer's book, if he were a convicted pedophile.  Seems that peddling drugs that cause misery and death is OK to profit from.  Double standards here IMHO.

[robblok]

6 minutes ago, simon43 said:

I wonder if Lad Bible would be so keen to promote this convicted drug dealer's book, if he were a convicted pedophile.  Seems that peddling drugs that cause misery and death is OK to profit from.  Double standards here IMHO.

Ah alcohol is also a drug so yea talk about double standards.

[clivebaxter]

He wrote the original book years ago and has talked about it at length on his YT channel. Whatever the evils of drug smuggling a very intelligent and engaging character. David was to be extradited from the UK back to Thailand, think he was held in Wandsworth prison. Even though the death penalty was being held over him the UK decided he was being sent back, only a few years ago. At the last minute having won the legal battle the Thais dropped the case and did not peruse his return after all, That has never been explained as far as I know.

Edited July 25, 2021 by clivebaxter

[internationalism]

there is an interview with him on yt, how he lived and how escaped - he had a lot of money to bribe prison guards, probably up to prison director. He has used a ladder. An umbrella was just to melt into a crowd

[clivebaxter]

1 minute ago, internationalism said:

there is an interview with him on yt, how he lived and how escaped - he had a lot of money to bribe prison guards, probably up to prison director. He has used a ladder. An umbrella was just to melt into a crowd

There was hours of it on Shaun Attwoods YT channel, but he got cancelled this week ????

[steven100]

They should have gotten rid of him asap. 

[steven100]

3 minutes ago, robblok said:

Ah alcohol is also a drug so yea talk about double standards.

don't talk your alcohol nonsense, the guy is a heroin trafficker .... he deserves the death penalty. 

[robblok]

Just now, steven100 said:

don't talk your alcohol nonsense, the guy is a heroin trafficker .... he deserves the death penalty. 

Why not Steven, you do the same in topics where it says drunk. Point is alcohol is a drug and so heroin. Scientists have classified alcohol as more damaging. 

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-11660210

 

Been other research that shows the same. The war on drugs is lost we need to do a new thing banning does not help. But people need to realize that alcohol is a drug too and really damaging especially causing aggression. So i don't get it when people defend alcohol but think other drugs are evil. 

[Tropicalevo]

13 minutes ago, robblok said:

Ah alcohol is also a drug so yea talk about double standards.

So are tea and coffee.

Tea, coffee and alcohol are usually legal. Heroin isn't.

 

Edited July 25, 2021 by Tropicalevo

[steven100]

1 minute ago, robblok said:

Why not Steven, you do the same in topics where it says drunk. Point is alcohol is a drug and so heroin. Scientists have classified alcohol as more damaging. 

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-11660210

 

Been other research that shows the same. The war on drugs is lost we need to do a new thing banning does not help. But people need to realize that alcohol is a drug too and really damaging especially causing aggression. So i don't get it when people defend alcohol but think other drugs are evil. 

your excusing and defending a heroin trafficker  .......    I find that hard to comprehend. 

Everyone knows right from wrong .....  and heroin trafficking is wrong  ,    ( in anyone's language ) 

having a beer is not.

 

 

[rcuthbert]

6 minutes ago, steven100 said:

don't talk your alcohol nonsense, the guy is a heroin trafficker .... he deserves the death penalty. 

My late friends ,Samantha and Conrad, decided to try pure heroin. To make matters worse - both had young children.

The felon sold deadly poison, so he deserved capital punishment.

[canthai55]

5 minutes ago, steven100 said:

your excusing and defending a heroin trafficker  .......    I find that hard to comprehend. 

Everyone knows right from wrong .....  and heroin trafficking is wrong  ,    ( in anyone's language ) 

having a beer is not.

How many people high on heroin have killed other people ?

How many people high on alcohol have killed other people ?

You need to get you priorities straight - the War on Drugs is a total failure. Never before have drugs been so pure, so readily available, and so cheap.

Why - the War on Drugs is the reason - and the huge amount of money that can be made. THAT is the reason.

Not to mention the millions of lives lost, families torn apart, people doing life for a bag of marijuana, while rapists and murderers do 5 years or so.

Your Neanderthal viewpoint helps nobody.

Alcohol is legal - this makes it all right ? That some Politician decided it is legal makes it OK ?

 

[clivebaxter]

26 minutes ago, steven100 said:

They should have gotten rid of him asap. 

Na that would have been a certain Thai in an Australian jail, our David is far more interesting. Talking about Bangkok prison entry at about 1 hour 24 mins

 

Life, Death & Escape in the Drug Wars: Studio Interviews with Shaun Attwood & David McMillan No. #2 - YouTube

Edited July 25, 2021 by clivebaxter

[clivebaxter]

9 minutes ago, rcuthbert said:

My late friends ,Samantha and Conrad, decided to try pure heroin. To make matters worse - both had young children.

The felon sold deadly poison, so he deserved capital punishment.

Did anyone force them to take it, their choice to try pure heroin which nobody would even recommend.

[Hayduke]

41 minutes ago, steven100 said:

don't talk your alcohol nonsense, the guy is a heroin trafficker .... he deserves the death penalty. 

Or even worse…. Like another famous heroin smuggler, he deserves to have been made a member of the PM’s cabinet. That would have really taught him a lesson.

 

 

 

Edited July 25, 2021 by Hayduke

[clivebaxter]

13 minutes ago, steven100 said:

your excusing and defending a heroin trafficker  .......    I find that hard to comprehend. 

Everyone knows right from wrong .....  and heroin trafficking is wrong  ,    ( in anyone's language ) 

having a beer is not.

 

 

As a government supporter what is your opinion on a convicted heroin dealer working as a public servant?

[steven100]

28 minutes ago, robblok said:

Ah alcohol is also a drug so yea talk about double standards.

I think we agree that we both disagree on this one .....  each to his own.  

[BE88]

38 minutes ago, clivebaxter said:

He wrote the original book years ago and has talked about it at length on his YT channel. Whatever the evils of drug smuggling a very intelligent and engaging character. David was to be extradited from the UK back to Thailand, think he was held in Wandsworth prison. Even though the death penalty was being held over him the UK decided he was being sent back, only a few years ago. At the last minute having won the legal battle the Thais dropped the case and did not peruse his return after all, That has never been explained as far as I know.

 

Nobody lost face, it seems familiar to you

 

[robblok]

21 minutes ago, Tropicalevo said:

So are tea and coffee.

Tea, coffee and alcohol are usually legal. Heroin isn't.

 

Yes but that is just a definition, had alcohol been compared and based on its damaged judged it would have to be banned like all the other drugs. So why is it that alcohol has so many defenders while the effects are worse.

 

So many people seem to think that alcohol and drugs are different they are the same. Some people become alcoholics just like some people become addicts. Some people commit violence when drunk (actually alcohol is known for the most violence of all) and some do that when high. Not everyone who does drug ends up on the street, many are just like alcohol users normal people. Why is that. Because they are the same.

 

Yet in the perception of many die hards like Steven100 when you take a XTC tablet or smoke a joint your hooked for life. While a glas of beer is relaxing and good. But fact is that both can do the same to some people. Its just that there is a sub class of people who can't handle any of this. Same like the dad that drinks the families money away in the pub you got druggies doing the same. Hell on Thaivisa you see people constantly talking about the cheapest beer to fuel their habbit.

 

So why waste money on drug enforcement when if you legalize it you will have more money to spend on healthcare. We should focus on those that cant handle it not on those that can. I don't care if someone is drunk or high as long as they behave im ok with it. Its those that don't behave that are the problem. In Portugal it worked well. In my country it works well (no not all drugs are legal). 

 

So its time to either ban alcohol with the other drugs or allow other drugs too. No more double standards for substances that do the same thing.

[robblok]

11 minutes ago, clivebaxter said:

As a government supporter what is your opinion on a convicted heroin dealer working as a public servant?

Then its ok.. its called double standards.

[canthai55]

Any thinking individual just has to look at what happened in Portugal when drugs were decriminalized.

https://time.com/longform/portugal-drug-use-decriminalization/

In the USA - the Opoid Crisis is fuelled by one thing - Big Pharma making Oxy and Fentanyl

[cdemundo]

35 minutes ago, Tropicalevo said:

So are tea and coffee.

Tea, coffee and alcohol are usually legal. Heroin isn't.

 

Yeah, that's kinda the point about the double standard.

Although, i never heard, "He was all effed up on Earl Grey (or Starbuck's) and crossed the white line and killed a whole family".

So I think tea and coffee don't belong in the same category as alcohol.

[tomazbodner]

53 minutes ago, robblok said:

Why not Steven, you do the same in topics where it says drunk. Point is alcohol is a drug and so heroin. Scientists have classified alcohol as more damaging. 

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-11660210

 

Been other research that shows the same. The war on drugs is lost we need to do a new thing banning does not help. But people need to realize that alcohol is a drug too and really damaging especially causing aggression. So i don't get it when people defend alcohol but think other drugs are evil. 

Alcohol and tobacco are legal only because the governments can make a ton of money out of them on taxes.

[sungod]

1 hour ago, simon43 said:

I wonder if Lad Bible would be so keen to promote this convicted drug dealer's book, if he were a convicted pedophile.  Seems that peddling drugs that cause misery and death is OK to profit from.  Double standards here IMHO.

If there was a drug smuggler and a kiddie fiddler up against the wall, which one would you shoot first?

[robblok]

4 minutes ago, tomazbodner said:

Alcohol and tobacco are legal only because the governments can make a ton of money out of them on taxes.

Of course why else, i mean science says they are equally damaging as other drugs. So risk wise it makes no sense. Anyway I just post here because a lot of alcohol drinkers seem to have the idea touch drugs once your an addict but never seem to worry about becoming an alcoholic. I mean its th same thing as an addict and it just happens to a smal portion of users of all drugs. Alcohol is no better or worse then others. We had a fishing village in the Netherland hard workers no problems but they did a lot of cocaine. So how is that different then alcohol. They worked hard during the week blew of steam with coke in the weekends. As long as they did not harm anyone it was the same as alcohol.

[NCC1701A]

maybe he can give me some tips on how to escape from Hua Hin.

[faraday]

3 hours ago, clivebaxter said:

There was hours of it on Shaun Attwoods YT channel, but he got cancelled this week ????

He's back on there today...☑️

[faraday]

4 hours ago, robblok said:

Ah alcohol is also a drug so yea talk about double standards.

Heroin's illegal. Alcohol's not.

[Mickeymaus]

Oh my goodness - it is an advertisement for a book...