Thai drug jailings
Three Australian and a Thai have been sentenced to a total of 121 years imprisonment after being found guilty of possessing B.skg of heroin for sale. Jailed’ were a Sydney hairdresser, Warren Fellows. aged 27, William Sinclair, aged 67. a Bangkok bar owner, and Kitti Imsap to 33 years and eight months each. A Sydney football player, Paul Hayward, aged 27, was sentenced to 20 years. The three Australians, arrested in October, 1978, and held in custody since then, pleaded not guilty to attempted trafficking. But Hayward and Fellows pleaded guilty to illegal possession , of - the heroin which the prosecution said was found in their hotel room. Defence lawyers said the Australians would appeal against the judgment.—Bangkok.
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Press, 27 July 1981, Page 4
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