It’s a massive complex, holding 22,000 inmates, effectively it’s “a city within a city”, and surrounded by a 30 foot moat.ĭavid, who’d been arrested under the alias ‘Daniel Westlake’ said: “When you first go in you get the worst of it.

He describes chaos, there was “deafening noise, blocked toilets, and people running around in chains'.Īnd when he was transferred to prison, Klong Prem, conditions got even worse. Would you believe it, it still didn’t kill him, but he couldn’t walk for three days.” 'People in chains'ĭavid says it's possible to bribe your way out of these situations in Thailand, but because of the foreign agencies involved he wasn't able to.Īfter a short spell in police custody, he was taken to court which he says “was a spectacle in itself'. “I had a cellmate who tried to kill himself. “I was a foreigner brought to them by a foreign agency, by the USDA and the Australian police, I wasn’t going anywhere,' David said. When police arrest someone in Thailand they can be held for up to seven days. A much younger David (Image: David McMillan)

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