Drug smuggler back from Philippines

[joebloggs]

someone we posted about a while ago..

A Thalidomide victim from North Yorkshire who was imprisoned in the Philippines for nearly 20 years for drug offences has arrived back in the UK after being pardoned from his life sentence.

http://www.maltonmercury.co.uk/news/...ines-1-4414218

[grahamw48]

Rufforth ?

Village next to an old WW2 airfield which used to be used for motor racing, now used by Microlights...about 3 miles from me.

He's lucky to be alive.

Drug smuggling ? Nuff said.

[Terpe]

I remember this story very well.
He spent a long long time in a terrible place. As said, he's lucky to be alive.

[joebloggs]

He spent a long long time in a terrible place. As said, he's lucky to be alive.

at least he is alive, unlike many drug dealers victims

[Dedworth]

at least he is alive, unlike many drug dealers victims

[fred]

It was a bit of weed ...Hardly deadly.
Guy messed up bad and was a twot for thinking he could get that amount of weed to Aussie..but he has done his time..more than the average violent murderer here..I`m glad hes back home and wish him the best of luck.
Still think he should write that book!

[joebloggs]

i dont think his book will be as interesting as Apocalypse Now fred

[Arthur Little]

Still think he should write that book!

... it could be called 'Gone For A Burton'! And he could always claim he'd been "stiched-up"!

[tanga]

i dont think his book will be as interesting as Apocalypse Now fred

Great film based on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness filmed in Philippines
Eleanor Coppola wife of Francis made a docufilm about the making of Apocalypse now under the title
Heart of Darkness
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102015/
The original film was cut to 2hrs 23 mins,the redux directors cut released in 2001 lasts 3hrs23mins
Heart of Darkness relates the problems encountered in Philippines,the set being destroyed by a typhoon,endless delays,the PAF helicopters,rented from Marcos suddenly taking off mid scene to fly to Mindanao to suppress rebel activity and about Martin Sheen's supposed near death heart attack
Marlon Brando threatened to pull out of the Kurt role and Clint Eastwood was contacted as stand by for the part

Love it or hate it,Coppola certainly also helped in advancing local film making techniques

[grahamw48]

My friend was an 'extra' in it...playing one of the GIs...and similar part in 'Platoon'...and likewise in 'Return to the River Kwai' (I think that's what it was called).

[fred]

'Return to the River Kwai'

Alan from the birds cage was the British military consultant for that film..I myself was an extra for 3 weeks in "platoon"...Somewhere in Cavite by the sea.I met sheen and the big cheese...whats That directors name again?
Not one to name drop.
Anyway...The good old days!

[grahamw48]

I've sent a PM Fred.

[Neu75]

It was a bit of weed ...Hardly deadly.
Guy messed up bad and was a twot for thinking he could get that amount of weed to Aussie..but he has done his time..more than the average violent murderer here..I`m glad hes back home and wish him the best of luck.
Still think he should write that book!

[andy222]

He broke the rules. End of story. A lesson should be learned. Dont mess around in the phils..

[grahamw48]

He should have gone to Specsavers....
.

[andy222]

I did read it. He was lucky.

[joebloggs]

Should have gone to Specsavers....
.

i remember that on the bottom of the form, but i think they withdrew the death penalty in 2006 ?

been thru this before, would he do it again, i doubt it, seeing he's been banned from the phils pitty he's back in the UK