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And ask him this Question:

Why is the UK allowing prisoners with life sentences who transfer from Thailand (and other countries without minimum terms in respect of life sentences) to have their tariff set according to UK case law whilst those with determinate sentences (fixed according to Thai law/other sentencing state) continue to have their sentences enforced resulting in them spending a considerable period of time longer in custody than someone with a life sentence.  Clearly someone with a life sentence will have committed a more serious crime than those with determinate sentences.  In the case of Thailand a life sentence is 99 years.  If a 33 plus year sentence is enforced by the UK then why shouldn’t the 99 year sentence? Or why should the determinate sentenced prisoners not have the benefit of having their sentences fixed according to UK case law?  The first British prisoner with a Thai life sentence transferred recently with a life sentence on the day of an Amnesty which should have reduced her sentence to 40 years, yet the UK treated her as having a life sentence and set her tariff to just under four years, which resulted in her immediate release.  The rules are in particular unfair to Thai sentenced prisoners due to their high determinate sentences.

STEVE’S SENTENCE REDUCED!!!!!

At long last I have some good news to report to all my web site readers. A new warrant of imprisonment has only just been received by me.

This is a actual document handed out by the Prison – Authorities after each Amnesty, confirming a prisoners reduction in sentence, if he or she has been fortunate enough to receive an amnesty at all.

Everything here in Bangkwang works at a snails pace, if it works at all.

It is only now, over 6 months after June 2006 amnesty was announced, is confirmation given to a prisoner of their sentence.

You will all know from our monthly news letters around the months of June 2006 that the hopes of many prisoners here were shattered in June’s announcement of such a tiny fraction of a amnesty that the Prison Authoritarians had had us believe.

I was told I received no amnesty at all in what was billed before hand as the biggest amnesty in Thailand’s history. Yet! Now my new warrant of imprisonment reveals I did in fact get a amnesty, wait for it readers!

You aint gonna believe the compassion and humanitarian generosity they’ve gave me!

“2 WEEKS” reduction in my sentence of 33 ½  years with my new release date of: October 3^rd 2036 compared to my original release date of: 17/10/2036 I will sure sleep a lot more soundly at nights, but I will now have to revise my plans for my future with 2 whole weeks of extra freedom on my hands!

It seems there’s no bounds to their compassion and Humanitarian Generosity to me.

On a less sarcastic note readers!

The cause of so many sleepless nights to me over the past 3 years 9 months of my imprisonment to date, my fine of £11.000 (sterling), which I had no means to pay and therefore prevented my transfer to a Prison back home in England to serve out my sentence.

My fine has totally been cancelled in June’s amnesty now this is cause for celebration and a enormous worry lifted, no sarcasm on that!

I’m coming home readers, this year!!

Well not really home, but at least to a Prison in England!