Going Home?
Claiming that some 60.000 Thais are denied a visa each year, the magazine says: “The British visa section has to be the worst advertisement for British tourism ever invented.
Despite all the British Embassy hype about transfer date being top secret! One of the guards here at Bangkwang calls me to the office and promptly announces to me as I walk through the door, “You go home”, what did you say I ask him in Thai language as I sit down at his desk, where he proudly shows me the paperwork of my transfer and all it’s details. I cant believe my eyes November 6th I will be transferred to HMP Wandsworth,
Ringing my mum and dad that week and telling them an exact date I am coming home! (Well to prison in England) was the best news and feeling, so so long I’ve waited to be able to give them good news of course my mum and dad were delighted, I got so choked up I could hardly speak (a wave of emotions took over me) over 4 ½ years waiting for this moment and I could hardly speak for the tremendous emotions and relief I was feeling. It was if the weight of the world was lifted from my shoulders, more than anything I felt so good for my parents and my family’s sake, part of their nightmare was soon to be over. The worst part of all this for them is the permanent worry they have to live with knowing I am living in a
The infamous Bangkwang Prison better known as “The Bangkok Hilton” is known through out the world for all the shocking and horrific conditions we have to endure here.
This reputation has haunted my family and loved ones for years many of them can not bring themselves to even look at this my web-site as I’ve clearly designed it to shock people into hopefully bringing about the change to us prisoners imprisoned here.
I don’t do this lightly as I am fully aware of by portraying the appalling conditions here I also make this whole ordeal worse on my family. But if we are to bring about change for the better and understanding the system here as I do, I firmly believe this is the only way to bring about that change by showing and telling the truth from behind these walls.
Without wanting to sound pessimistic of this great news of my transfer, I wont believe it until I am sitting on the aeroplane high in the sky over Thailand, for this is Thailand and any kind of hiccup is possible, my years here and experience has taught me to always expect the un-expected and always prepare for the worst case scenario.
I feel very anxious, and I don’t feel good about all the friends I will be leaving behind here. It might sound crazy but now my time is almost here, in many ways I don’t want to go. I never thought I would say that and even crazier is I will miss this place. I feel more like I am leaving home than I am going home! More important than ever now is Lek my wife visa appeal is successful; let’s hope there’s good news on that before I transfer! All that’s on my mind now is Lek’s settlement visa.
To all you people out there who’ve supported me in various ways I thank you all kindly it’s you who got me to where I am now my news letters and articles will continue and the next one will hopefully be written by me from an English Prison and more important than anything I hope to be writing you Lek and Oak are now also settled in England. My new Prison address will be published on my website A.S.A.P. Wandsworth Prison my first port of call is only an allocation Prison and I shouldn’t be there long, before being moved to a Permanent address and its then I will contact you all.
Sincere thanks to you all
Steve Willcox
bravenet.com