1 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:08,400 Red light district. 2 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:11,400 Just become the place to be, really. 3 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:16,100 Months ago, I was a bleeding, normal, mundane light. 4 00:00:17,780 --> 00:00:19,640 Now, I'm a pimp. 5 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:22,680 Dealing prostitution, drugs. 6 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:24,700 I felt like a superstar. 7 00:00:25,100 --> 00:00:26,400 I thought, I can do this. 8 00:00:28,100 --> 00:00:29,100 You got the honey? 9 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:33,940 He just spoiled our control. 10 00:00:41,740 --> 00:00:43,280 We don't wait for a long time. 11 00:00:45,020 --> 00:00:46,700 A lot I got myself into. 12 00:00:47,180 --> 00:00:49,440 I really don't know if I can go through with it. 13 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:57,660 I wish I could go back to boring old England and my boring old job. 14 00:01:14,350 --> 00:01:18,270 I grew up in a place called Watford, just on the outskirts of London. 15 00:01:22,630 --> 00:01:24,470 So I was a postman. 16 00:01:30,110 --> 00:01:32,050 I absolutely loathed it. 17 00:01:32,530 --> 00:01:35,270 I hated the job, I hated everything about it. 18 00:01:36,810 --> 00:01:39,090 It was more like glamourised paperboy. 19 00:01:40,010 --> 00:01:41,790 Same day in, day out. 20 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:48,460 I was living at home with my parents. 21 00:01:49,420 --> 00:01:52,040 I only moved out once in my life with a girlfriend. 22 00:01:52,300 --> 00:01:53,300 Got a flat. 23 00:01:54,540 --> 00:01:55,780 That didn't work out. 24 00:01:57,980 --> 00:02:00,080 I wanted to make something of myself as well. 25 00:02:00,660 --> 00:02:03,720 To have my own business, not working for someone else. 26 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:09,600 It's always been my dream to own a bar in a place like Thailand. 27 00:02:10,300 --> 00:02:11,640 I've been there on holiday. 28 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:13,700 And it was a brilliant time. 29 00:02:15,930 --> 00:02:18,130 I thought I had no chance of actually moving there. 30 00:02:26,450 --> 00:02:27,450 Jim? 31 00:02:27,750 --> 00:02:28,750 Can I have a minute? 32 00:02:29,170 --> 00:02:33,870 I found one morning a management calls me into his office. 33 00:02:35,230 --> 00:02:36,230 I'm sorry, Jim. 34 00:02:37,450 --> 00:02:38,550 There's been some cutbacks. 35 00:02:39,370 --> 00:02:40,970 How do you feel about taking redundancy? 36 00:02:45,870 --> 00:02:46,870 I'll find it now. 37 00:02:48,350 --> 00:02:53,910 I've been looking forward to this time for so many years, and now it's finally 38 00:02:53,910 --> 00:02:54,910 happened to me. 39 00:02:57,690 --> 00:02:59,210 It's £33 ,000. 40 00:03:00,770 --> 00:03:04,230 It was enough for me to live my dream. 41 00:03:20,810 --> 00:03:24,350 When I wrote Violet, I went into party mode. 42 00:03:27,650 --> 00:03:30,710 And for the first time, I really felt happy for a long, long time. 43 00:03:34,310 --> 00:03:38,190 I had a friend called John, who owned a very popular bar. 44 00:03:40,910 --> 00:03:42,850 Drinking, chatting with people. 45 00:03:43,690 --> 00:03:44,830 I felt special. 46 00:03:45,430 --> 00:03:47,930 Not the normal Jimmy the Postman. 47 00:03:59,050 --> 00:04:01,370 I rented out an apartment for one year. 48 00:04:02,630 --> 00:04:06,690 I thought, I'll see how it goes. Give me one year, see if I settle in, see if 49 00:04:06,690 --> 00:04:10,510 it's not just a dream, if I can make this work. 50 00:04:11,310 --> 00:04:13,250 I just felt like a different person then. 51 00:04:22,110 --> 00:04:25,850 Months went by, and the red light district, I love. 52 00:04:26,330 --> 00:04:27,390 You've got nightclubs. 53 00:04:28,460 --> 00:04:30,180 everyone's happy, everyone's drinking. 54 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:34,620 It's just become the place to be, really. 55 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:41,040 On the way home one day, there was a rent sign on this bar. 56 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:46,420 I'd squandered a lot of money whilst just partying, saying it's got to 57 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:49,820 Why not go for it? 58 00:04:50,900 --> 00:04:55,820 My first thought was go and see my friend John, get some advice off him. 59 00:05:01,830 --> 00:05:03,310 I'm serious about this, John. 60 00:05:04,030 --> 00:05:09,090 Listen, mate, you want to run a bar around here, you're going to accept that 61 00:05:09,090 --> 00:05:11,450 you're going to have girls working out of it. 62 00:05:13,150 --> 00:05:17,190 Explain to me, if you become a bar owner here, you've got to play by the rules. 63 00:05:17,370 --> 00:05:18,790 You've got to pay the right people. 64 00:05:19,570 --> 00:05:21,730 You make sure you pay the police. 65 00:05:22,370 --> 00:05:25,610 A lot of people think prostitution in Thailand is above board. 66 00:05:27,070 --> 00:05:28,070 It's totally illegal. 67 00:05:28,460 --> 00:05:31,600 But you've got to pay the police a certain amount to stay open every month. 68 00:05:31,900 --> 00:05:33,880 If you don't, they're going to throw you out of here. 69 00:05:34,420 --> 00:05:35,420 Or worse. 70 00:05:37,660 --> 00:05:38,660 Worse? 71 00:05:39,540 --> 00:05:40,820 Throw you off your island. 72 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:42,640 Lock you up. 73 00:05:43,740 --> 00:05:47,540 I wasn't sure if I was the right person for it or not. 74 00:05:49,280 --> 00:05:53,380 But in the back of my mind, it was worth the risk for me to live my dream in 75 00:05:53,380 --> 00:05:54,380 Thailand. 76 00:06:01,070 --> 00:06:06,370 I put a sign up outside the bar, Jimmy Chang's staff wanted. 77 00:06:08,570 --> 00:06:12,370 If you have a bar around there with no staff, no girls, you've got no chance. 78 00:06:13,630 --> 00:06:18,110 Selling drinks, hiring out loads of girls, you make money that way. 79 00:06:18,910 --> 00:06:25,710 All of a sudden, the girls were calling me, not Jim anymore, 80 00:06:25,850 --> 00:06:26,850 they were calling me boss. 81 00:06:28,010 --> 00:06:29,210 Which was a nice feeling. 82 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:46,400 Jimmy Chang's Open for Business! 83 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:51,880 Many people turned up that night. The music was blaring. 84 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:54,040 Everyone was drunk. 85 00:06:55,500 --> 00:06:57,980 People shaking hands, congratulating, you know. 86 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:01,160 I felt really proud of what I'd done. 87 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:05,120 Finally, 88 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:07,340 I loved my life. 89 00:07:28,300 --> 00:07:32,600 I knew the police were coming at some point because it was in the red light 90 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:33,600 district. 91 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:38,940 You know why I'm here? 92 00:07:40,060 --> 00:07:41,060 For the money. 93 00:07:43,260 --> 00:07:44,260 How much? 94 00:07:44,740 --> 00:07:49,860 They explained to me, you can sell drinks, you can sell ladies, but you 95 00:07:49,860 --> 00:07:50,860 pay us money. 96 00:07:51,060 --> 00:07:55,560 And I can stay open all night? 97 00:07:58,250 --> 00:07:59,370 What if I don't pay? 98 00:08:00,970 --> 00:08:02,210 We shut you down. 99 00:08:06,110 --> 00:08:07,450 I'll see you at the end of the week. 100 00:08:09,990 --> 00:08:13,450 Months ago, I was a postman leading a normal mundane life. 101 00:08:14,090 --> 00:08:16,250 Now, I've taken the bar over. 102 00:08:16,930 --> 00:08:20,690 I've become a pimp, paying the police protection money. 103 00:08:22,190 --> 00:08:24,770 I didn't realise what I was getting myself into. 104 00:08:28,010 --> 00:08:30,030 I spent many months in Thailand. 105 00:08:30,590 --> 00:08:34,270 In Red Light District, where the bar was, it's quite seedy. 106 00:08:39,010 --> 00:08:42,730 You could go to bed with ten women if you wanted to, if you had enough money. 107 00:08:44,110 --> 00:08:46,670 I was the only westerner along the street. 108 00:08:47,790 --> 00:08:48,790 Taking their business. 109 00:08:50,510 --> 00:08:51,670 It's scary. 110 00:08:54,310 --> 00:08:55,470 Playing a dangerous game. 111 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:02,080 There's one guy coming to the bar blatantly dealing drugs. 112 00:09:02,500 --> 00:09:06,660 Yeah, yeah, yeah, hang on a second. And the girls are buying pills off him and 113 00:09:06,660 --> 00:09:07,660 exchanging money. 114 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:10,680 I knew I couldn't let it go on. 115 00:09:12,620 --> 00:09:14,840 It wasn't the place to have drugs. 116 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:20,340 Of course you can get in serious trouble for it. 117 00:09:35,180 --> 00:09:36,360 He'd smile back at me. 118 00:09:37,680 --> 00:09:39,460 That was the worst thing I could have wished for. 119 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:46,840 When you get a Thai smiling at you when they shouldn't be smiling, you know 120 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:47,840 there's a problem. 121 00:10:01,300 --> 00:10:03,020 No one's ever pointed a gun at me before. 122 00:10:05,550 --> 00:10:08,430 And I looked straight at him, he was looking at me. 123 00:10:09,810 --> 00:10:11,150 Of course it was a death threat. 124 00:10:16,370 --> 00:10:21,390 If someone points a gun at you, it is a death threat. 125 00:10:32,070 --> 00:10:33,170 In 2009, 126 00:10:34,060 --> 00:10:35,580 My brother comes out to see me. 127 00:10:36,680 --> 00:10:39,480 And I'm so looking forward to this, I ain't seen him for quite a while. 128 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:43,840 Gary's not just my brother, he's my best mate. 129 00:10:45,340 --> 00:10:46,340 Not that spot, eh? 130 00:10:48,300 --> 00:10:49,300 Paradise. 131 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:53,620 Gary's the older brother and I always looked up to him and respected him. 132 00:10:56,240 --> 00:10:57,500 Yeah, love him more than life. 133 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:02,920 So, this is my place. 134 00:11:04,270 --> 00:11:06,510 I really wanted to make Gary proud. 135 00:11:06,890 --> 00:11:07,890 This is great. 136 00:11:10,050 --> 00:11:14,310 And I think that's the whole point of me doing this. 137 00:11:14,990 --> 00:11:15,990 Right. 138 00:11:16,230 --> 00:11:17,230 Let's get to the bar. 139 00:11:24,430 --> 00:11:30,630 As soon as I walked in there, I was really excited 140 00:11:30,630 --> 00:11:33,030 to see the girls. 141 00:11:35,069 --> 00:11:36,069 Music blaring out. 142 00:11:39,250 --> 00:11:41,090 I can see in his face he won't dress. 143 00:11:43,810 --> 00:11:44,870 This ain't right, mate. 144 00:11:45,090 --> 00:11:46,330 You need to come home. 145 00:11:49,110 --> 00:11:52,030 For him to see his brother actually have a bar in the bed like this street 146 00:11:52,030 --> 00:11:54,790 was... I think it's quite a shock to him. 147 00:12:01,490 --> 00:12:03,050 Yeah, I don't like to see my brother upset. 148 00:12:03,630 --> 00:12:05,450 But you weren't impressed with me at all. 149 00:12:07,430 --> 00:12:08,430 I'd let him down. 150 00:12:12,590 --> 00:12:15,870 Next day, my brother returned home. 151 00:12:20,030 --> 00:12:22,370 It hurt me, what Gary said to me. 152 00:12:26,750 --> 00:12:32,810 But I thought to myself, I've chose this life, you know. 153 00:12:33,530 --> 00:12:34,530 It's my decision. 154 00:12:36,950 --> 00:12:40,050 Now I've had that first bite of the apple. 155 00:12:40,290 --> 00:12:42,370 As they say, it's kind of like, I want more. 156 00:12:44,930 --> 00:12:49,230 I went back to one of my staff's apartments with a few of her friends. 157 00:12:52,530 --> 00:12:58,010 One of the girls brought a bag of crystal meth out, which they call lice 158 00:12:58,010 --> 00:12:59,010 Thailand. 159 00:13:02,990 --> 00:13:07,070 This was a massive deal for me. I've never done like this before. 160 00:13:12,450 --> 00:13:16,650 The rush you got from it, you're on the total high. 161 00:13:20,770 --> 00:13:25,210 All of a sudden, it just grabs hold of you. 162 00:13:30,610 --> 00:13:32,270 It just spiralled out of control. 163 00:13:34,060 --> 00:13:35,060 You can drink what you want. 164 00:13:35,900 --> 00:13:37,480 You can party really hard. 165 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:46,740 When you think you can get so much done, you can work 24 hours and not sleep. 166 00:13:48,620 --> 00:13:50,940 In my mind, I was on top of my game. 167 00:13:54,180 --> 00:13:58,000 A couple of months later, I'm not just smoking ice anymore. 168 00:13:58,600 --> 00:13:59,600 I'm selling it. 169 00:14:00,180 --> 00:14:02,540 Bits and pieces, one gram here, one gram there. 170 00:14:11,050 --> 00:14:12,430 It's only low -key. 171 00:14:14,270 --> 00:14:16,090 But I wanted more. 172 00:14:18,310 --> 00:14:19,530 And I've become a bit greedy. 173 00:14:27,230 --> 00:14:30,870 The bar next door to me is a bigger plot than mine. 174 00:14:32,490 --> 00:14:34,830 I want this bar to extend my bar. 175 00:14:36,590 --> 00:14:38,410 For it to be a little gold mine. 176 00:14:41,710 --> 00:14:43,850 It's going to take me quite a bit of money to do this. 177 00:14:44,610 --> 00:14:48,510 So to fund this, I need to start selling a lot more drugs. 178 00:14:51,890 --> 00:14:54,090 In hindsight, it was a terrible idea. 179 00:14:57,770 --> 00:15:02,770 A few days later, one of the girls said she's got a contact that sells ice. 180 00:15:02,970 --> 00:15:04,750 And it's strong, really strong. 181 00:15:05,610 --> 00:15:06,610 And it's cheap. 182 00:15:06,850 --> 00:15:07,990 So do it for half price? 183 00:15:08,370 --> 00:15:09,370 Yes, half price. 184 00:15:10,150 --> 00:15:11,290 It's only $50. 185 00:15:11,630 --> 00:15:12,629 And I couldn't believe it. 186 00:15:12,630 --> 00:15:15,830 Like, I've been paying $100, $110. 187 00:15:17,070 --> 00:15:18,070 It's good stuff. 188 00:15:19,070 --> 00:15:20,070 Okay. 189 00:15:22,710 --> 00:15:23,710 Text me his number. 190 00:15:24,130 --> 00:15:26,750 I'll set up a meeting, buy a few grand, see if it's any good. 191 00:15:37,070 --> 00:15:38,890 I arranged to buy 10 grand. 192 00:15:40,010 --> 00:15:41,450 I didn't know what to expect. 193 00:15:42,370 --> 00:15:43,370 Hello? 194 00:15:43,710 --> 00:15:45,350 Yeah, I'm in a black car. You'll see me. 195 00:15:46,170 --> 00:15:53,010 All right, well... I'm thinking to myself, this is going to go really well, 196 00:15:53,090 --> 00:15:56,590 or it's all going to go wrong. I'm going to get sold rubbish. 197 00:15:56,930 --> 00:15:58,270 I'm going to get ripped off. 198 00:15:59,570 --> 00:16:04,890 It's not a lot of drugs, but it's enough to get me a long time in a Thai prison. 199 00:16:09,390 --> 00:16:15,530 I'm looking around, and I don't know who or what he looks like or anything. 200 00:16:21,710 --> 00:16:27,230 The Thai guy's just sat in the passenger seat, and I don't know who he is. 201 00:16:28,690 --> 00:16:31,210 Could be a policeman, could be anyone. 202 00:16:33,350 --> 00:16:34,770 What have I got myself into? 203 00:16:48,140 --> 00:16:49,140 You got the money? 204 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:52,040 Yeah. 205 00:16:53,980 --> 00:16:55,140 My heart's racing. 206 00:17:00,020 --> 00:17:03,840 I don't know if it's a set -up, or is he going to shoot me? 207 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:16,640 Door's shut. He's gone. 208 00:17:18,409 --> 00:17:20,010 I'm sitting there thinking, what have I just done? 209 00:17:20,790 --> 00:17:26,829 If I get caught with 10 grams of ice in my possession, I'll probably end up in 210 00:17:26,829 --> 00:17:27,829 prison. 211 00:17:35,090 --> 00:17:40,490 When I got back home with the drugs, there was a relief, massive relief. 212 00:17:41,070 --> 00:17:42,550 But I actually got away with it. 213 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:56,260 It's stronger than I've ever tasted. 214 00:17:58,120 --> 00:17:59,560 It just blew my mind. 215 00:18:01,100 --> 00:18:02,520 I thought, this is going to sell. 216 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:06,520 Girls, girls, come here. 217 00:18:09,120 --> 00:18:13,900 I gave five grams away to the girls. I've got something for you, all right? 218 00:18:14,360 --> 00:18:17,360 Let your friends smoke it, whoever wants to smoke it, and see what you think. 219 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:18,480 OK, all right, OK. 220 00:18:18,660 --> 00:18:19,660 Yeah, 221 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:20,880 OK. 222 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:24,140 Within half an hour, the phone's going. 223 00:18:24,590 --> 00:18:25,590 Yeah. 224 00:18:26,590 --> 00:18:27,770 Right, how much do you want? 225 00:18:28,310 --> 00:18:29,730 Jimmy, get some more, get some more. 226 00:18:30,170 --> 00:18:31,310 The phone was red hot. 227 00:18:33,470 --> 00:18:34,470 Hello? 228 00:18:35,010 --> 00:18:36,010 Yes, Jimmy. 229 00:18:36,230 --> 00:18:38,010 Now I want five grams. 230 00:18:38,270 --> 00:18:40,330 I want ten grams. 231 00:18:40,750 --> 00:18:47,570 Hey, get these guys a drink. I'll have one for me, yeah? I felt 232 00:18:47,570 --> 00:18:48,570 like a superstar. 233 00:18:49,050 --> 00:18:50,610 Everyone wanted to know me now. 234 00:18:50,930 --> 00:18:54,270 So I said to myself, I need... Plan another trip. 235 00:18:55,630 --> 00:18:57,810 And it's not going to be a 10 -gram trip. 236 00:18:58,790 --> 00:19:00,570 I'm planning on bringing 200 grams. 237 00:19:01,750 --> 00:19:03,070 That's a lot. 238 00:19:05,550 --> 00:19:07,990 But this time, I'm going to plan it a lot better. 239 00:19:08,290 --> 00:19:10,010 No meeting in Peckham Station. 240 00:19:12,470 --> 00:19:14,010 No money changing hands. 241 00:19:18,910 --> 00:19:22,870 Take all the money I could get hold of, which equated to $13 ,000. 242 00:19:23,510 --> 00:19:25,810 I thought I can hide the money in the hubcaps. 243 00:19:26,170 --> 00:19:29,550 The guy was going to take the money and put the drugs in place. 244 00:19:31,470 --> 00:19:32,470 Hi, it's me. 245 00:19:32,870 --> 00:19:34,990 Yeah, I'll be there in about an hour. 246 00:19:35,870 --> 00:19:39,570 I'm worried if you take the money and don't leave the drugs, I'm pretty much 247 00:19:39,570 --> 00:19:41,570 ruined. That's all my money gone. 248 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:57,120 And I'm walking down these aisles. 249 00:19:58,460 --> 00:20:02,960 And I'm going around aimlessly picking things off the shelves, not even 250 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:03,960 what I'm buying. 251 00:20:05,380 --> 00:20:08,660 And my mind's ticking over what's going on downstairs. 252 00:20:18,220 --> 00:20:19,700 I was panicking like mad. 253 00:20:26,870 --> 00:20:30,830 One part of me wanted to take off a wheel cap and see if the drugs are 254 00:20:33,430 --> 00:20:35,290 But it's stupid to do that. 255 00:20:35,790 --> 00:20:37,350 They could have been police watching me. 256 00:20:44,730 --> 00:20:46,730 I've got to trust this guy. 257 00:20:50,330 --> 00:20:53,370 My heart was racing. I just couldn't wait to get back to my place. 258 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:06,640 When I got back home, I bent down, started unscrewing the first hubcap, 259 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:09,080 thinking, what am I going to find there? 260 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:11,180 Have I been ripped off? 261 00:21:15,860 --> 00:21:17,180 I fell on top of the world. 262 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:18,440 I felt great. 263 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:24,880 I'm now in possession of 200 grams of ice, which is a ridiculous amount. 264 00:21:29,260 --> 00:21:30,920 So I phoned the third girl. 265 00:21:31,350 --> 00:21:34,570 I sold five grams of ice for $500. 266 00:21:36,790 --> 00:21:39,870 Within five days, the ice was all gone. A whole lot. 267 00:21:40,690 --> 00:21:44,270 Which, to me, is worth $926 ,000. 268 00:21:45,630 --> 00:21:49,750 I thought, if I can do a few of these trips, I'll have enough money to buy the 269 00:21:49,750 --> 00:21:50,750 bar next door. 270 00:21:52,510 --> 00:21:54,090 That'll be the end. That'll be good. 271 00:22:04,490 --> 00:22:06,130 Now I've got a lot of money sitting around. 272 00:22:07,530 --> 00:22:08,530 It's drug money. 273 00:22:11,590 --> 00:22:13,090 So I need to hide it somewhere. 274 00:22:18,270 --> 00:22:22,850 In my bedroom, I've, like, polystyrene panel ceiling. 275 00:22:25,110 --> 00:22:27,850 And you can lift these squares off. It's a kind of suspended ceiling. 276 00:22:29,190 --> 00:22:33,050 So you can lift them off and put the money up there and put the ceiling back 277 00:22:33,050 --> 00:22:34,050 down. 278 00:22:35,180 --> 00:22:36,320 And to me, that's safe. 279 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:43,180 In hindsight, that was a terrible idea. 280 00:22:45,260 --> 00:22:46,640 It should have been buried. 281 00:22:47,060 --> 00:22:48,620 Everything should have been buried. 282 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:53,440 Who is it? 283 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:57,980 I felt like I was out of my depth now. 284 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:00,720 Total stranger standing there. 285 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:02,160 What do you want? 286 00:23:02,380 --> 00:23:03,600 I want some ice. 287 00:23:05,020 --> 00:23:06,020 What? Hey! 288 00:23:08,020 --> 00:23:10,040 Now, people know where I live. 289 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:12,140 I don't know what you're talking about, mate. 290 00:23:12,700 --> 00:23:15,260 People know that I've got a load of drugs in the house. 291 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:17,000 I'm starting to feel paranoid. 292 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:25,240 I'm in this position where I can imagine quite a few guns being pointed at me. 293 00:23:26,380 --> 00:23:29,580 I'm undercutting the drug dealers on the island. 294 00:23:33,930 --> 00:23:34,930 It's too dangerous. 295 00:23:40,190 --> 00:23:44,030 I've been in Thailand for quite a while, and all's going well. 296 00:23:45,010 --> 00:23:48,690 But I want to be settled for the rest of my life. 297 00:23:49,270 --> 00:23:51,150 I felt there was something missing. 298 00:23:57,350 --> 00:24:01,410 One night, I finished work. 299 00:24:01,850 --> 00:24:03,470 Maybe about 2 o 'clock in the morning. 300 00:24:05,350 --> 00:24:07,330 On the way back, I need to chill out. 301 00:24:07,550 --> 00:24:11,250 There's a nice little bar just around the corner from my house. 302 00:24:12,410 --> 00:24:14,510 Went in there, got myself a drink. 303 00:24:16,910 --> 00:24:17,910 Hi. 304 00:24:18,770 --> 00:24:19,770 Hi. 305 00:24:20,850 --> 00:24:21,850 Pretty, isn't it? 306 00:24:24,250 --> 00:24:25,250 Gorgeous. 307 00:24:27,450 --> 00:24:29,750 We start talking and I find out her name is Son. 308 00:24:31,790 --> 00:24:33,790 started chatting to her, bought her a drink. 309 00:24:35,910 --> 00:24:39,750 After about an hour or so, a couple of drinks, we had a really nice time 310 00:24:39,750 --> 00:24:40,750 together. 311 00:24:43,870 --> 00:24:46,730 And we were talking about bars and stuff, and she goes, 312 00:24:47,570 --> 00:24:51,790 I said, 313 00:24:53,850 --> 00:24:56,470 I have a little bit, if you want to try it. 314 00:25:13,390 --> 00:25:15,170 Following morning, we exchanged phone numbers. 315 00:25:15,890 --> 00:25:17,390 I wanted to see her again, you know. 316 00:25:17,890 --> 00:25:18,890 That was fun. 317 00:25:19,410 --> 00:25:21,070 Let's do it again soon, yeah? Yeah. 318 00:25:21,930 --> 00:25:22,930 See you. 319 00:25:23,530 --> 00:25:26,310 It was only one night, but I was quite beside with her. 320 00:25:27,210 --> 00:25:28,230 There was a spark. 321 00:25:30,630 --> 00:25:32,130 Someone just likes me for who I am. 322 00:25:33,430 --> 00:25:34,430 It's nice to be loved. 323 00:25:45,810 --> 00:25:50,230 Life was good, and the money's coming in, and I'm enjoying myself. 324 00:25:57,510 --> 00:25:57,930 A 325 00:25:57,930 --> 00:26:04,790 few days 326 00:26:04,790 --> 00:26:06,250 later. Hello. 327 00:26:07,890 --> 00:26:08,890 Hey, son. 328 00:26:09,430 --> 00:26:10,430 How you doing? 329 00:26:10,630 --> 00:26:11,630 And some rings. 330 00:26:11,870 --> 00:26:13,890 She asked me if she can buy some ice off me. 331 00:26:15,050 --> 00:26:16,610 Yeah, no, I've got some. Just come over. 332 00:26:17,730 --> 00:26:18,750 She knows I have it. 333 00:26:19,710 --> 00:26:21,190 No, no, no, you don't need to, please. 334 00:26:21,850 --> 00:26:23,250 I told you, it's free for you. 335 00:26:24,150 --> 00:26:25,810 Yeah. Can I have a little bit? 336 00:26:26,130 --> 00:26:27,130 Just come round. 337 00:26:27,590 --> 00:26:28,590 OK, see you soon. 338 00:26:39,330 --> 00:26:45,170 So, a couple of hours later, I hear a motorbike pull up round the corner, Look 339 00:26:45,170 --> 00:26:47,250 over the balcony, and there she is, walking towards me. 340 00:26:55,150 --> 00:26:56,150 Hey. 341 00:26:58,830 --> 00:26:59,830 Coming in? 342 00:26:59,890 --> 00:27:04,350 No, I just came here for the... Okay. 343 00:27:09,330 --> 00:27:10,330 For you. 344 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:16,280 No, take it. 345 00:27:17,820 --> 00:27:18,820 Just have it. 346 00:27:21,740 --> 00:27:22,740 Are you sure? 347 00:27:28,580 --> 00:27:29,580 Okay. 348 00:27:30,340 --> 00:27:32,380 No, I've told you, I don't want your money. Take it. 349 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:35,460 Why did she give me money for? 350 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:37,940 Why is she not taking all the drugs? 351 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:41,360 I thought this was weird. 352 00:27:43,740 --> 00:27:45,680 Okay, you're going to come in for a drink. No, I've got to go. 353 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:51,960 I remember standing there. I've got 3 ,000 baht in my hand. I've got drugs in 354 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:52,960 hand. 355 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:56,560 Like half a gram of ice. 356 00:27:59,960 --> 00:28:01,360 And she started tooting the horn. 357 00:28:06,360 --> 00:28:08,000 I couldn't understand what she was doing. 358 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:27,320 I felt my arm being grabbed. 359 00:28:31,660 --> 00:28:33,960 And it's all gone slow motion now. 360 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:38,680 My heart's racing. 361 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:43,660 But I'm trying to calm down. 362 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:48,000 I've been to myself. 363 00:28:48,540 --> 00:28:52,600 All I had at the moment was half a gram of ice and 3 ,000 baht. 364 00:28:53,820 --> 00:28:55,080 It's only a small amount. 365 00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:57,980 Don't worry, not a big problem. 366 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:01,120 I've still come my way out of this. 367 00:29:03,300 --> 00:29:07,800 When they searched the house, they took me to every room so I could see what 368 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:08,800 they was doing. 369 00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:16,860 Everyone was searching all the wardrobes, all the cabinets with TV, 370 00:29:16,860 --> 00:29:17,860 unit. 371 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:25,680 And the guy sitting in the polystyrene towel banged the first one out. 372 00:29:27,810 --> 00:29:34,130 second one and he was getting so close to it 373 00:29:34,130 --> 00:29:40,590 and I was thinking is he going to stop before he gets to that time could he by 374 00:29:40,590 --> 00:29:41,650 chance miss that time 375 00:29:58,990 --> 00:30:01,010 Like Thailand just won the World Cup in football. 376 00:30:03,630 --> 00:30:04,850 Now they've got the money. 377 00:30:07,750 --> 00:30:08,850 I'm well and truly done. 378 00:30:11,530 --> 00:30:12,530 Mind full. 379 00:30:14,570 --> 00:30:15,990 Another part of being stupid. 380 00:30:16,970 --> 00:30:21,430 When it actually happens, you think about should have done this, should have 381 00:30:21,430 --> 00:30:22,430 done that. 382 00:30:22,750 --> 00:30:23,750 Too late. 383 00:30:28,170 --> 00:30:30,030 They found drugs in the car. 384 00:30:31,290 --> 00:30:33,450 I knew I'd been picked up in the plane. 385 00:30:35,370 --> 00:30:36,770 They all just hung in. 386 00:30:39,750 --> 00:30:43,910 It was some... She don't lie to me. 387 00:30:45,170 --> 00:30:46,410 She's an informer. 388 00:30:56,850 --> 00:30:59,060 I've read... Horror stories about typhus. 389 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:02,160 I never thought in my own mind I'd end up in one. 390 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:10,680 I'm really frightened at this point because I don't know what's going to 391 00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:11,680 to me in there. 392 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:38,960 I couldn't believe what I was walking into. 393 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:43,300 And I couldn't believe how many people were there. 394 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:54,120 All eyes were on me. 395 00:32:04,140 --> 00:32:07,420 The first time I saw myself, I couldn't believe the size of it. 396 00:32:09,300 --> 00:32:12,000 It's like 20 feet by 20 feet, and there's 30 of us. 397 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,500 It's going to be bad enough to try and stand up, let alone lie down and sleep. 398 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:19,860 There's a squat toilet in the corner of the room. 399 00:32:21,220 --> 00:32:22,780 It's going to stink in here as well. 400 00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:25,560 And to be right, it did. 401 00:32:28,100 --> 00:32:30,260 And the heat just hit you. It was like an oven. 402 00:32:34,409 --> 00:32:35,890 Nine o 'clock is the time we go to bed. 403 00:32:41,350 --> 00:32:42,910 I never turn the lights off. 404 00:32:43,930 --> 00:32:44,930 24 -7. 405 00:32:45,850 --> 00:32:47,310 I didn't sleep all night. 406 00:32:48,590 --> 00:32:52,650 I knew I wouldn't be seeing friends or family for a very long time. 407 00:32:54,590 --> 00:32:55,790 This ain't right, mate. 408 00:32:57,110 --> 00:33:03,090 I wish I could go back to boring old England and my boring old job. 409 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,020 I always expected my name to be in life. 410 00:33:10,060 --> 00:33:11,520 Open for business! 411 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:14,260 Come on, Poplar. 412 00:33:14,700 --> 00:33:15,780 Thank you. 413 00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:18,320 Powerful. 414 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:21,340 My mom was a big boss. 415 00:33:22,580 --> 00:33:23,740 I had it all. 416 00:33:24,420 --> 00:33:28,920 But that's the end of it. That's my dream totally shattered. 417 00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:49,000 Six o 'clock in the morning. We was released from the felt. 418 00:33:53,460 --> 00:33:56,940 They pushed me out into the middle of the yard with all the other prisoners. 419 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:06,360 There was one guy in the middle of the day. 420 00:34:08,500 --> 00:34:10,280 Ran towards the fence. 421 00:34:13,780 --> 00:34:15,620 He just went running across the yard. 422 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,840 jumped on the fence and we couldn't believe he got to the top. 423 00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:22,020 We knew he was going nowhere. 424 00:34:31,060 --> 00:34:32,679 All the captains rushed out. 425 00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:40,219 They beat the living hell out of him. 426 00:34:46,540 --> 00:34:48,159 How am I going to get through this? 427 00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:53,900 What is going to happen next to me? 428 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:07,240 And within a week of being in prison, I have a visit from my brother. 429 00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:10,620 At first, I didn't believe it. 430 00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:14,420 I see the shock in his face when he saw me. 431 00:35:19,660 --> 00:35:24,320 I've got grey hair and 20 years in 10 days. 432 00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:27,960 And chained up like an animal. 433 00:35:31,500 --> 00:35:32,500 How are you, mate? 434 00:35:35,240 --> 00:35:38,760 I'm all right. I tried to explain to him everything's going to be OK. 435 00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:44,540 But obviously, my face and the way I look, it's not good. 436 00:35:45,340 --> 00:35:47,640 Listen, Jim, I found a lawyer. 437 00:35:50,670 --> 00:35:52,310 I haven't got the money for a lawyer. 438 00:35:52,630 --> 00:35:53,630 I've got my savings. 439 00:35:58,450 --> 00:35:59,450 How much? 440 00:36:01,490 --> 00:36:02,490 80 ,000. 441 00:36:05,290 --> 00:36:07,610 I just felt guilt with your sin. 442 00:36:09,250 --> 00:36:11,250 And I said, don't waste your money on me. 443 00:36:13,430 --> 00:36:15,850 I'm going to do everything I can to get you out of here. 444 00:36:16,730 --> 00:36:17,730 All right? 445 00:36:24,790 --> 00:36:27,430 Gary transfers the money over to the lawyer. 446 00:36:31,430 --> 00:36:33,530 At the moment, I'm looking at 25 years. 447 00:36:36,610 --> 00:36:37,710 I felt dead inside. 448 00:36:38,370 --> 00:36:43,570 At that point in time, it just feels like someone ripped my heart out. 449 00:36:47,950 --> 00:36:50,410 Over the next few weeks, I was down back and forth to court. 450 00:36:56,230 --> 00:37:00,590 On the day of sentencing, I only ended up with five and a half years. 451 00:37:01,370 --> 00:37:04,990 So I know the law has been involved, thanks to my brother. 452 00:37:15,450 --> 00:37:18,950 The days, they go so slow here. 453 00:37:21,790 --> 00:37:23,770 But then the days, they turn into weeks. 454 00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:30,240 Start losing track of what you're doing. 455 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:33,180 It just wears you down. 456 00:37:37,780 --> 00:37:42,920 To put my family through that as well, I knew it'd be tearing them to bits. 457 00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:49,360 It felt like they was doing the sentence with me. 458 00:37:50,620 --> 00:37:53,480 It was torture, but... 459 00:37:56,170 --> 00:37:57,170 I'm guilty. 460 00:37:58,110 --> 00:37:59,750 Like everyone else in here. 461 00:38:03,390 --> 00:38:05,230 Some of the prisoners were killers. 462 00:38:05,890 --> 00:38:07,910 So you do anything to survive. 463 00:38:11,670 --> 00:38:15,090 One day the fight broke out and I'm right in the middle of him. 464 00:38:20,430 --> 00:38:24,230 Two rival gangs fighting between each other. I can't get out of the way. 465 00:38:30,430 --> 00:38:34,230 Captain, they're rushing in. And they come in with their weapons, and it's 466 00:38:34,230 --> 00:38:35,830 battling people all over the place. 467 00:38:36,570 --> 00:38:42,350 And I turned around, and all I could feel was smash in my face. 468 00:38:46,810 --> 00:38:52,390 How in the hell am I going to get through this? 469 00:38:53,850 --> 00:38:55,910 Is this where I die? 470 00:39:12,109 --> 00:39:14,150 Three of my teeth have been knocked out of me. 471 00:39:17,350 --> 00:39:18,350 I was in shock. 472 00:39:20,090 --> 00:39:22,030 Totally stunned. I couldn't believe what just happened to me. 473 00:39:26,010 --> 00:39:27,630 I'm just starting to lose it. 474 00:39:29,670 --> 00:39:31,910 I really don't know if I can carry on with this. 475 00:39:35,650 --> 00:39:39,350 When people come into that prison, they change. 476 00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:52,300 A guy from Holland, he was caught on his motorbike with a small bit of grass. 477 00:39:53,180 --> 00:39:54,780 We always stuck together. 478 00:39:55,140 --> 00:39:57,640 We ended up great pals. 479 00:39:59,420 --> 00:40:01,420 But one day, he changed. 480 00:40:05,900 --> 00:40:07,920 And he was panicking. 481 00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:20,240 He couldn't handle prison, so he hung himself. 482 00:40:27,020 --> 00:40:32,480 I can't understand a guy at that age, 24, he's got his whole life to look 483 00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:33,480 forward to. 484 00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:52,100 You need to be strong in a place like that. 485 00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:53,820 And obviously he wasn't. 486 00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:02,980 I just felt like I should have done more for him. 487 00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:15,840 I realised I needed to survive. 488 00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:18,860 I needed to value life now. 489 00:41:20,910 --> 00:41:22,370 Get back to see my family again. 490 00:41:23,050 --> 00:41:24,630 I need to go back and apologise. 491 00:41:27,110 --> 00:41:30,390 I needed one more chance. 492 00:41:37,310 --> 00:41:43,550 Two years, three months into my prison term, I was told, embassy visit, 493 00:41:43,710 --> 00:41:44,730 Jim Kelly. 494 00:41:46,370 --> 00:41:47,370 James Kelly? 495 00:41:47,530 --> 00:41:48,530 Yeah. 496 00:41:48,810 --> 00:41:51,390 I have some papers here to take you back to England. 497 00:41:52,850 --> 00:41:58,170 The embassy official explains that I can be transferred back to England and 498 00:41:58,170 --> 00:42:00,550 finish my sentence in my own country. 499 00:42:01,350 --> 00:42:02,910 Get out of here. 500 00:42:04,030 --> 00:42:05,030 Yeah. 501 00:42:07,610 --> 00:42:10,730 When I heard the news, you know, I'm over the moon. 502 00:42:13,390 --> 00:42:16,490 This is me getting out of hell. 503 00:42:16,990 --> 00:42:17,990 Thank you. 504 00:42:19,340 --> 00:42:20,340 Thank you. 505 00:42:33,620 --> 00:42:37,800 The next time I saw my brother Gary was in a prison visit in Wandsworth. 506 00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:43,800 See you then. 507 00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:54,320 Sorry for everything. 508 00:42:57,380 --> 00:42:58,980 I saw my brother Gary. 509 00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:01,200 He's saved my life now. 510 00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:06,940 And... I wouldn't be doing this interview 511 00:43:06,940 --> 00:43:11,400 if it wasn't for him, you know? 512 00:43:16,180 --> 00:43:17,180 How's Mum? 513 00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:21,920 She feels... 514 00:43:23,470 --> 00:43:24,470 She misses you. 515 00:43:26,170 --> 00:43:27,170 I've paid for it. 516 00:43:27,790 --> 00:43:29,650 And it's not just me who's paid for it. 517 00:43:30,910 --> 00:43:32,290 People have hurt around me. 518 00:43:32,890 --> 00:43:37,590 My family is selfish what I've done. 519 00:43:38,970 --> 00:43:41,610 People have said to me, would you do it again? 520 00:43:45,650 --> 00:43:46,650 Not a hope.