British tourist faces death penalty after being arrested for drug smuggling in Thailand
A 23 -year -old British man was arrested in Bangkok after allegedly found more than 9 kg crystal methamphetamine in the hotel room of the Thai police.
George Wilson of Buckinghamshire, High Wycombe was arrested on Monday evening in the red light area of the city after watching the movements of an international drug gang of civil servants.
Police claimed that Mr. Wilson had given a suitcase containing narcotics by a British who told him to contact Suvarnabhumi Airport abroad.
LBC reported that there were drugs concealed in 10 green foil bags labeled Chinese tea and hidden under a white towel after a overturning of the Lumpin police.
The images of the arrest showed that Mr. Wilson rejected any information about the content of the suitcase: orum I don’t know what happened. ”
However, during the arrest, the Department of Metropolitan Police Department of Metropolitan Police Department 5, Pongtanin Bamrungsawat said later that the suspect was “confirming that it is his items”.
“The accusations were explained to him with their rights and handcuffed and detained for legal processing,” he said.
Police confirmed that a chemical test was methamphetamine.
“The full name of the suspect was George Henry Allaway Wilson, who was born on July 29, 2002,” George Henry Allaway Wilson, “Lieutenant Colonel Noppha Thongbo from Lumpini Police. “He was arrested on 29 September at 18:00. He was currently detained and will be taken to the Bangkok Southern Criminal Court to be detained in prison tomorrow.”
Colonel Siranwitcha Intorn, Director of the Department of Crime, said that Mr. Wilson suspected that he was part of a cross -border smuggling network and draws attention to a large amount of drugs.
“The amount of drugs discussed was also very large. Royal Thai police coordinated the highest levels of arrest to arrest,” he said.
Before moving to Thailand, a regional transit center for text and narcotics, the Thai authorities were suspected of being built in Myanmar, a neighboring country that was uncomfortable with civilian conflicts.
Importing or exporting narcotics such as methamphetamine carries the death penalty in Thailand, but life imprisonment is more widely applied. However, mitigating conditions may reduce the sentence to 10-20 years.
The United Kingdom, Foreign Affairs, said that he was in contact with the Thai authorities after the arrest of a British man ”.
Mr. Wilson, a former student of Hurst Lodge School in Surrey, was in Thailand for two weeks before his arrest.
