Help Needed: Bail Money for Lance Whitmore in Thai Prison

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Re: Help Needed: Bail Money for Lance Whitmore in Thai Prison

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yup its a mugs game, turns out hes a mug! let him rot
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^ if you take all the capital letters it spells a secret message
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SinnSisamouth wrote:^ if you take all the capital letters it spells a secret message
I hope I'm not the only one who wasted 30 seconds on this.
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The "other guy" who was with Lance Whitmore, Jake Mastroianni, received an even heavier sentence than Whitmore despite the fact that he was not found with drugs on him. His lawyer says procedural errors were made, but if he appeals he would stay even longer in a Thai jail before being eligible to finish his sentence in Australia.Tough call.

September 9 2016
Australian DJ Jake Mastroianni a victim of legal bungle in Thailand, says lawyer
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Bangkok: Jake Mastroianni, an Australian DJ known in the night clubs and strip bars of Thailand's Pattaya by his stage name Badmouth, was the victim of a critical legal error that put him behind bars for life, his lawyer says.

Mastroianni, 26, was spending time at his girlfriend's apartment in the Thai beach city after his British friend sold ecstasy pills to a foreign man outside a nearby supermarket.
As the friend, Lance Whitmore, a 27-year-old former soldier, pulled 200 pills from his backpack, undercover police rushed to arrest him.

The buyer turned out to be acting for police in the 2014 sting operation targeting foreigners in Thailand's "sin city".

Dozens of police later burst into the apartment where Mastroianni was hanging out, bringing his life as a fun-loving likable DJ to a crashing end.

Police discovered 61 ecstasy pills in the apartment, leaving Mastroianni two years later in Thailand's notorious Klong Prem prison, convicted and facing two life sentences, a punishment that lawyers say is extremely harsh, even in the country where drug traffickers can be executed.

Mastroianni is now considering whether to lodge an appeal against the verdict in a case his lawyer says contained a series of troubling events, including questionable legal advice when he was initially arrested.

Nathan Feeney, a Bangkok-based lawyer with the firm Thailandbail, who is now acting for Mastroianni, says a "critical error" was made when his client's case was not separated from Whitmore's...

Mr Feeney told Fairfax Media that no drugs were found on Mastroianni or in any of his belongings...
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/a ... rchp0.html?
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CEOCambodiaNews wrote:The "other guy" who was with Lance Whitmore, Jake Mastroianni, received an even heavier sentence than Whitmore despite the fact that he was not found with drugs on him. His lawyer says procedural errors were made, but if he appeals he would stay even longer in a Thai jail before being eligible to finish his sentence in Australia.Tough call.

September 9 2016
Australian DJ Jake Mastroianni a victim of legal bungle in Thailand, says lawyer
Lindsay Murdoch
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Bangkok: Jake Mastroianni, an Australian DJ known in the night clubs and strip bars of Thailand's Pattaya by his stage name Badmouth, was the victim of a critical legal error that put him behind bars for life, his lawyer says.

Mastroianni, 26, was spending time at his girlfriend's apartment in the Thai beach city after his British friend sold ecstasy pills to a foreign man outside a nearby supermarket.
As the friend, Lance Whitmore, a 27-year-old former soldier, pulled 200 pills from his backpack, undercover police rushed to arrest him.

The buyer turned out to be acting for police in the 2014 sting operation targeting foreigners in Thailand's "sin city".

Dozens of police later burst into the apartment where Mastroianni was hanging out, bringing his life as a fun-loving likable DJ to a crashing end.

Police discovered 61 ecstasy pills in the apartment, leaving Mastroianni two years later in Thailand's notorious Klong Prem prison, convicted and facing two life sentences, a punishment that lawyers say is extremely harsh, even in the country where drug traffickers can be executed.

Mastroianni is now considering whether to lodge an appeal against the verdict in a case his lawyer says contained a series of troubling events, including questionable legal advice when he was initially arrested.

Nathan Feeney, a Bangkok-based lawyer with the firm Thailandbail, who is now acting for Mastroianni, says a "critical error" was made when his client's case was not separated from Whitmore's...

Mr Feeney told Fairfax Media that no drugs were found on Mastroianni or in any of his belongings...
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/a ... rchp0.html?


Just spoke to my mate who did time in klong prem.

Dont want nothing to do with jake as its drug related


Sorry brah do the crime do the time
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Retardedwaitress wrote:... im gonna visit him next time im in BKK for sure just as a fellow ozzie
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Re: Help Needed: Bail Money for Lance Whitmore in Thai Prison

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I vividly recall the threats made by this person's father on this forum so I have no sympathy whatsoever

Lance Whitmore, 28, an ex-soldier from Bromsgrove in Worcestershire will serve 50 years.


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Re: Help Needed: Bail Money for Lance Whitmore in Thai Prison

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Australian DJ, Jake Mastroianni Transfered to Bangkwan Prison aka the Bangkok Hilton
BANGKOK -26 year-old Jake Mastroianni an Australian DJ facing two life jail sentences in Thailand for possession of 61 tablets of ecstasy has been transferred to Bangkwan prison aka the Bangkok Hilton where prisoners on death row are also held.

Lawyers for Mastroianni, said efforts to have him transferred to an Australian jail have not been fruitful, with a judge also rejecting an appeal to reduce his sentence last year.

Lawyer Nathan Feeney said he was surprised by Mastroianni’s recent transfer to the notorious Bangkwan prison, also known as the Bangkok Hilton, located on the outskirts of Bangkok. The jail houses 7,000 inmates, of which around 700 are on death row.

Up to 50 people can be kept in cramped cells, sanitary conditions are shocking and the meagre diet consists of one bowl of rice per day – which is often rotting.

Prisoners are made to wear leg irons for the first three months, after which they are unshackled.

Mastroianni was arrested in August 2014 in Pattaya, 150 kilometres from Bangkok, where he worked as a DJ at the Sapphire Club, along with 28-year-old Briton Lance Whitmore.

Whitmore was charged with possessing 200 pills, while a search of Mastroianni’s girlfriend’s apartment uncovered a further 61 tablets. Both men were charged with acting as a criminal organisation. Mastroianni received two life terms after pleading not guilty...
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