- Colin Martin
Colin Martin is an Irish citizen from
Carrickmacross ,County Monaghan , who was imprisoned inThai prisons for the crime of murder. [cite news|url=http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2005/0121/1104400415420.html|title=Irishman released from Thai prison|last=McConnell|first=Daniel|date=21 January 2005 |work=Irish Times|accessdate=2008-05-10]He is the author of the book "
Welcome to Hell --One Man's Fight for Life Inside theBangkok Hilton" (ISBN 0954870778), about his experiences in the Thai legal system, and in the Thaiprison system.He was swindled out of a fortune. He tracked down the man who conned him, and drawn into a fight, accidentally stabbed and killed that man's bodyguard. He claims to not have been given a fair trial. He served almost eight years in Thai prisons.
He was released from the notorious
Lard Yao prison nearBangkok on January 18, 2005, and was deported fromThailand shortly after that date.He continues to work as a
welder .References
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