Fugitive Briton Drug Dealer Arrested After Hiding Out In Thailand

[Cobalt60]

What I said was, ....if they considered him high risk.......oh sod it I cant be bothered....your right as ever....

it takes a bit more nous to get out of anything other than a cat D

Edited February 23, 2009 by Cobalt60

[Maigo6]

What I said was, ....if they considered him high risk.......oh sod it I cant be bothered....your right as ever....

it takes a bit more nous to get out of anything other than a cat D

Yep........I'm right.

One thing I'm also right about as well is this, when he gets back yo UK, 100% he'll never get Cat D again. Mind you, I knew guys coming fron B Cat into D cat and wanting to go back because they were privilaged prisoners allowed Playstations atc, single cell....

Go to HMP Ford and you're in a wooden hut, it's an ex RAF camp from WW2, until you get your own room, then you have to wait until you prove yourself to be good all over again before you get the privilages you got in your previous prison, playstations etc.

Life sucks sometimes....

[sriracha john]

Rossendale drugs runaway extradited to UK

A drug-dealing pub boss who absconded from prison and went on the run to Thailand has been extradited back to the UK.

Nigel Hunt, 39, was jailed for five-and-a-half years in 2004 after undercover officers found him selling ecstasy from the toilets of Rawtenstall’s Sun Inn. Hunt, formerly of Schofield Road, Rawtenstall, and Rosewood Avenue, Haslingden, absconded from Kirkham prison in 2006.

Police believe he was hiding out in Thailand and Spain.

He was arrested at Madrid airport on February 19. Police said Hunt was one of Lancashire’s ‘most wanted’ men. After he was jailed, police carried out a financial investigation into Hunt’s affairs and he was ordered to pay back £83,380 he had made from crime.

Failure to pay would have added an extra 20 months to his sentence. This order was due to start when he absconded and officers believe this was his motive for fleeing.

A European arrest warrant was initially granted for Hunt in December 2006 as Lancashire officers liased with Interpol to hunt him down.

He was traced to Thailand, where it is thought he had been living for some time.

Officers then discovered he was due to get on a flight to Spain. He was extradited to the UK on Thursday and was taken to Leyland police station. He was due to appear at Chorley Magistrates’ Court yesterday.

- Lancashire Telegraph / 2009-02-28

[galowgala]

Was he pushing drugs in Thailand? Men In Brown need to follow-up on his connections in Thailand. How was he funding 18 months of living expenses in Thailand? Are his connections still at it?

sounds like you should join the tourist police your a real crime buster

[cocopops]

I think all you crazy hippy "soft on drugs" types should take note of the facts. According to the government statistics in this report:

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/the...ealth/HSQ29.pdf

ALMOST AS MANY PEOPLE DIED FROM ECSTASY AS FROM PARACETAMOL between 2000 and 2004.

Now can please start taking this seriously and locking more people up? Instead of the ridiculous insinuation that parents should be responsible for their children? What the fuc_k do think this is, a free society? Honestly....

At times like these, with the economy kicking ass, the government has more money than they know what to do with. The least they could do is start building some more prisons to keep us safe from dangerous villains like Mr Hunt.

Edited March 10, 2009 by cocopops

[ratcatcher]

I wonder if he's related to MIKE HUNT ?

No mate, Nigel Hunt is from Lancashire,............ MIKE's a York HUNT.

[Texpat]

Can anybody identify the trend here?

Edited March 15, 2009 by Texpat

[JimsKnight]

Was he pushing drugs in Thailand? Men In Brown need to follow-up on his connections in Thailand. How was he funding 18 months of living expenses in Thailand? Are his connections still at it?

Dude, 18 months of easy livin' in Thailand does not take a fortune.

[smallprawn]

Was he pushing drugs in Thailand? Men In Brown need to follow-up on his connections in Thailand. How was he funding 18 months of living expenses in Thailand? Are his connections still at it?

He wasn't 'pushing' in Thailand .-- he had a good business there until a woman got hold of him and started to blackmail him. He lost his business and ended up on 'trumped up' charges because she thought he had more money than he really had. He had his passport taken away so he couldn't leave and went through unimaginable conditions because he could not 'pay off' this woman. She thought he had family who would bail him out but he didn't. He eventually got his passport back after months of living rough in the jungle and begging for rice and getting no help at all from previous 'friends'. He never did anything wrong in Thailand except fall for a woman who lied to get what she could. The Court even new that she was lying and told her to drop the charges...but all this took months to happen...and he paid a high price.

He may have had a good business but are you 100% sure it was not just a front?

Anyhow his "good business" was set up using funds from traffiking illegal drugs which makes him a criminal thus he is now en route to the right place for him to reside.

As for femi fan's anti drug law rant the laws of any country are set by the people's elected representatives. Just because you disagree with the law does not give you the right to ignore it. If you are robbed would you sympathise with the thief if he claimed he disagreed with the law against theft? What if the thief was doing the stealing to support his drug habit?

[Arkady]

I wonder why the British police didn't have him extradited from Thailand, since they knew where he was. Was he travelling on his real passport? I would have thought they would take that off prisoners when they go to jail as a precaution. I wonder how easy it is to travel on fake passports these days with machine readable information embedded in them.

[Tolley]

Okay great another petty criminal arrested.

Really it is a big yawn which ever way you look at it.

Don't understand why it even made it into the papers.

[sinom]

I wonder if he's related to MIKE HUNT ?

No mate, Nigel Hunt is from Lancashire,............ MIKE's a York HUNT.

And so's his brother PHILL ..............................

[t.s]

'Most wanted' Rossendale drug dealer held in Spain

He had been jailed in 2004 after undercover officers caught him selling ecstasy from the Bank Street pub’s toilets.

hardcore that

Edited April 20, 2009 by t.s

[imaneggspurt]

I think all you crazy hippy "soft on drugs" types should take note of the facts. According to the government statistics in this report:

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/the...ealth/HSQ29.pdf

ALMOST AS MANY PEOPLE DIED FROM ECSTASY AS FROM PARACETAMOL between 2000 and 2004.

Now can please start taking this seriously and locking more people up? Instead of the ridiculous insinuation that parents should be responsible for their children? What the fuc_k do think this is, a free society? Honestly....

At times like these, with the economy kicking ass, the government has more money than they know what to do with. The least they could do is start building some more prisons to keep us safe from dangerous villains like Mr Hunt.

Compare it with alcohol and see where it comes out,.murder is also illegal, unless war is declared and your government train you to kill a complete stranger,.the law (and most goverments ) is an ass,.

[BigSnake]

Another Bad boy bite the DUST! Ok by me. Could swear I saw this fellow spending big time on friends at a local Bar/Pub(?")

[sriracha john]

UPDATE...

Escaped drug-dealer jailed again

A drug-dealer from Lancashire who escaped from an open prison and fled to Thailand has been jailed.

Nigel Hunt, who was arrested in Spain in February, must serve the final three years of his five-and-half-year sentence plus an extra 600 days.

The 39-year-old fled HMP Kirkham in August 2006 after being jailed for conspiracy to supply class A drugs.

Bolton magistrates ordered him to pay £15,000 interest on top of £69,000 he owes from the proceeds of his crimes.

Hunt, who is originally from the Rawtenstall area will also serve the rest of his time in a high-security prison.

His arrest follows a worldwide manhunt.

The serious organised crime unit at Lancashire Police was alerted by Interpol that he was living in Thailand, but was due to travel to Spain on 12 February.

They notified the authorities in Spain who were waiting for him when he landed in Madrid.

Hunt will not be eligible for parole.

Inspector Simon Brooksbank said: "Despite paying off £14,561.74 of monies released from a restraint bank account at the time of the first hearing, he has since failed to pay up."

"So even though he has paid off a part of the outstanding confiscation order, the amount he now owes is actually more than the original confiscation order."

"Hunt's time on the run has now cost him £15,000 in interest, 600 days more behind bars, and the prospect of having to pay up the £83,000 he owes anyway."

-- BBC 2009-05-21

Edited May 21, 2009 by sriracha john

[jackdanielsesq]

Ya gotta feel sorry for the slob - prolly got beaten by mama as a kid, then the priests had their way with him, which resulted in him becoming a narc dealer, which is why his babe in LOS beat and eventually threw him under the bus!!

Wait - there's retribution - lets call Oprah!!

BR>Jack

[timinchina]

Was he pushing drugs in Thailand? Men In Brown need to follow-up on his connections in Thailand. How was he funding 18 months of living expenses in Thailand? Are his connections still at it?

He wasn't 'pushing' in Thailand .-- he had a good business there until a woman got hold of him and started to blackmail him. He lost his business and ended up on 'trumped up' charges because she thought he had more money than he really had. He had his passport taken away so he couldn't leave and went through unimaginable conditions because he could not 'pay off' this woman. She thought he had family who would bail him out but he didn't. He eventually got his passport back after months of living rough in the jungle and begging for rice and getting no help at all from previous 'friends'. He never did anything wrong in Thailand except fall for a woman who lied to get what she could. The Court even new that she was lying and told her to drop the charges...but all this took months to happen...and he paid a high price.

Can we assume that you're also a drug-dealing scumbag too then?

[patklang]

Nice to see some are bored, not enough threads about the best sandwiches or burgers ever eaten, or how to ditch your thai girlfriend ?

Its good that one of the miserable dregs of society has been re captured all the same.

On the contrary, i think it's pathetic when we spend our time worrying about imprisoning people selling a drug that so many people want to take for their weekend leisure. Adults selling ecstasy to adults. Why should the state interfere with this transaction? Just what has it rightfully got to do with them?

If you want to get the 'miserable dregs of society' off the road, then go spend your energies getting most of our leaders into prison. They're the real criminals.

So you are a drug addict too???

The reason he went to jail was that he is scum and selling drugs.

THIS IS AN ILLEGAL PRACTICE