What is the cost to the British Tax Payer?
It costs something in the region of £50.000 per year to keep I alone in prison in
Yes!! Fifty thousand pounds, multiply that by my 33 ½ year sentence and then multiply that by the other fifty English prisoners still held in Thailand’s prisons, all waiting their time to transfer back here to an English prison.
These other fifty “and growing number” of English prisoners have Thai sentences ranging up to 50 years, so their costs are even higher than mine.
Quite clearly the costs to the British Tax Payer is running into “Hundreds of Millions of Pounds” “£100.000.000” to house prisoners convicted in
Even the most hard liners on crime couldn’t argue “we” (British Citizens) convicted in Thailand are getting off light, as all of us would have served the 4-8 years minimum term of imprisonment in the horrific squalid conditions of a Thai prison, (before we are eligible to transfer to an English prison)
We would have all been more severely punished for our crimes than we would have been if committed and convicted in
Maybe Gordon Brown will have more compassion for our Human Rights and see common sense and stop wasting this hundreds of millions of pounds on this completely outrageous waste of Tax Payers money.
Write to him/her on this money issue; write to him/her on the unfairness of the Thai-UK Prisoner Transfer Treaty and lack of support for British Citizens Kings Pardon Petitions in
Print of articles from this site which explain these issues and send them to your Local M.P. demanding action.
Articles of interest found on the Home page
· Fact sheet explaining the unfairness of the Thai-UK prisoner Transfer Treaty.
· UK Law raises serious Human Rights Issues
· Why would anyone want a life sentence?
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Or:- Any articles, newsletters, sketches on this site you feel maybe appropriate to help persuade your M.P. to help us.
This month a faint glimmer of light shone through the end of a very long tunnel, when both Solicitor and barrister agreed to take my case.
Paperwork excellently prepared by my Solicitor was put forward to our barrister, for his advice on a review of my case. The very last days or so of this month, the Barrister has advised in favour of pursuing an application to the High Court to judicially review the enforcement of my sentence.
The High Court will now initially need to grant us leave for a hearing, without the courts permission, I will not automatically receive a hearing.
It’s very very early days yet and like I said just a faint little glimmer of light at the moment.
But!!, by far the best start to a new year in a very long time.
KIND OF IRONIC!! MADNESS? :- where yet more of Tax Payers money has to be used to fight the Home Office (Ministry of Justice) and hopefully bring an end to this outrageous waste of £100.000.00 ssss wasted imprisoning us for longer than is humane and reasonable for the crimes we’ve committed. Why can’t the UK Government especially the Ministry of Justice see sense?
Surely it would be a feather in anybodies cap to amend this UK-Thailand Treaty and also make amendments to the policy to support British Prisoners convicted in
(Most notably being also fellow Commonwealth Countries:
Surely a proposal by a Government Department that proposes saving a Government HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF POUNDS is a good thing for that Department and all concerned?
By Steve Willcox
bravenet.com