Perché così tanti inglesi vengono rinchiusi all’estero? L’uomo che ha trascorso 18 anni nella famigerata prigione tailandese parla
https://www.lbc.co.uk/crime/brits-banged-up-abroad-former-smuggler/
di tylerthe-theatre
Perché così tanti inglesi vengono rinchiusi all’estero? L’uomo che ha trascorso 18 anni nella famigerata prigione tailandese parla
https://www.lbc.co.uk/crime/brits-banged-up-abroad-former-smuggler/
di tylerthe-theatre
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Not many are. It just tends to be the ones smuggling drugs for money.
Silly headline.
We live in a society obsessed with money and image, young naive people lose all sensible thought if it’s offered to them like this.
One horrible thought is that it would not be that difficult to switch suitcases with someone if you were staying in a hotel together.
I have no information that has happened in any of these cases but it’s terrifyingly possible.
You’d have to be really spectacularly thick to think you could get away with just shoving a load of stuff in your case and flying with it.
A combination of they stopped showing Banged Up Abroad on TV, and some dafties think that a UK passport is a get out of jail free card.
Instagram influencer idiot lasses who live beyond their means and think that their perceived beauty gives them superior treatment or air of invulnerability.
*’You can’t do this to me! I’m British’ *waves BRITISH PASSPORT**
>Jonathan Wheeler was issued a death sentence when he was caught smuggling 2kg of heroin worth £1m into Thailand in 1994 after being promised $10,000. 18 years later, he was freed from an infamous prison that “eats men alive”
I guess that answers the question about why people are being “locked up abroad”. They’re smuggling drugs.
I only skimmed the article, so may have missed it, but I didn’t see any statistics that show “so many Brits” are being “locked up”. Just a relatively short list of people caught smuggling drugs and facing the consequences, per the law in the country they were caught.
There’s an old play on YouTube called [“Amongst Barbarians”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN5tuu6Tcr8&themeRefresh=1) which is a fairly chilling representation of folk being caught with drugs overseas.
It’s a rare chance to see David Jason playing a very dark character.
The drug trade will never end, it’s so lucrative it will forever continue to attract people. Given that fact, we can either continue with our dysfunctional approach or we can try something new
Our police and justice system is also comparatively ridiculously soft compared to most other countries (esp in the far east). A lot go over there and they are shocked that there are actual punishments with very little in the way of appeals.
It Possibly something to do with breaking the laws of the country they’re in.
Completely dogshit article. The man snuggled heroin and got caught. The headline makes it sound like he’s was minding his business on a beach and got slammed with 18 years. Most people who go to jail abroad do so because they were twats like this bloke. You cannot use the justification “oh he was young he didn’t know better” shut the fuck up. Even 18 year olds know snuggling Drugs is wrong.
>Mr Wheeler said local drug gangs can spot when young people finish spending their money but “want to stay out there and have more paradise.
>”People want more of that. The raves, the parties and all the rest of it. They want more of that,” he said.
And the frankly idiotic ‘influencer culture’ has basically given those smuggling gangs more people desperate for ‘easy money’ and ‘party lifestyle’ than ever before.
Everyone should be made to watch Bangkok Hilton before they leave school.
There’s a reason all these are similar types of person. Talentless, jobless, unskilled wasters that think they’re entitled to the millionaire lifestyle based on their appearance.
What these people dont realise too is sometimes you’re being set up to get caught. The gangs will tip off the airport that you have drugs, you get caught, the airport can go look how great we’re while other smugglers get through
Always love when they say “don’t repeat my mistakes” like I was planning to smuggle coke through UAE. Russian roulette has better odds
Heroin smuggler is written about as if he’s a good and decent fellow, wtf?
Desperation to be seen living the perfect life style.
Idk but I’m a young British woman and I think these girls are so so dumb!!
Dumb people with no respect for the law (overseas or at home). Too many people in Britain believe that laws and rules are just something that apply to other people.
Don’t break local laws, don’t go to prison?
Weird concept.
“Brits go on holiday, nothing happens , they go home”, doesn’t have the same impact as “caught smuggling coke in angel delight”.
Most of the time it’s always reported almost like that because they’re British they shouldn’t go to jail, and I think some folks actually believe that if they get caught the consulate or foreign office will get them out, that’s their mistake, if you’re stupid enough to do the crime, even if you get “duped” into it, then you should do the time, there have been warnings for decades about watching your luggage and not taking strange bags etc, so there’s no excuse as fas I’m concerned, they all know what they’re doing.
I’ve been abroad quite a bit and not ended up in jail. LPT Don’t stick drugs in your luggage or up your bum and you should be fine.
Because all British immigrants are untrustworthy and criminals.
The ones who’ve been caught breaking the law prove that right, right?
Maybe check and respect other countries laws before flying there?
If you disagree with them, don’t go. Simple. Don’t try smuggling drugs in to… anywhere for that fact.
I’ve done plenty of travelling in Asian and eastern countries, never been locked up. I wonder why? lol