Belgian drug smuggler dies in Cambodian prison

[geovalin]

Belgian media are reporting that convicted cocaine smuggler David Catry – who received a life sentence in 2018 – has passed away in Prey Sar prison. The Belgian citizen – aged 40 –  passed away from a severe asthma attack on the night of April 29th. Mr Catry was convicted with accomplice Tanguy J. Taller – also Belgian – of drug trafficking and received a life sentence in 2018.

 

He was arrested on January 10, 2018 by anti-drug police and customs agents at Phnom Penh Airport. He had travelled from Brazil to Ethiopia to Thailand and then onto Cambodia where he was arrested after officers found 1.003 kilos of cocaine hidden within his suitcase. He had initially denied the crime, but then later confessed, saying he had received $30,000 to smuggle the drugs into Cambodia.

 

His accomplice, Taller, was convicted in absentia after going into hiding in Cambodia, but was arrested after being apprehended on October 4 ,2018 at the Cambodia-Vietnam International Checkpoint in Svay Rieng province’s Bavet city.

 

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[Mac Mickmanus]

Must have been quite an unpleasant way to die .

Dying of an asthma attack in a Cambodian jail cell ?

Was he supplied with an inhaler or any medicine or anything or just left to die ?