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In the Tele today it has a story in "What happened next" about a bloke called Paul Hayward .
I can only assume with what is happening in Bali at the moment that the tele thought
that now was as good a time as ever to tell his story , albeit very briefly.
He played for the Jets in the 70's and was also an
accomplished boxer at the time.( NSW amateur welterweight champ)
He got himself mixed up with a bloke called Warren Fellows
who's father rode 1949 Melbourne cup winner "Foxzami".
Fellows was a hairdresser/drug smuggler and had done numerous
"mule" runs for certain Sydney underworld characters through India .
Fellows coerced Hayward into going to Thailand with him as a bit of hired help to collect some money.
Both men always claimed that only Fellows was privy to the true reason, which was a Heroin smuggling job.
To cut a long and harrowing story short , they both got busted and convicted of smuggling around 8 Kg's
of Heroin and were given bloody long sentence's . This obviously spelt the end of
Haywards football career.
They both spent around 11 (and some) years in Bwang Kwang and other notoriously brutal Thai prisons.
They both got pardons on the Kings birthday or some shite and were sent back home.
When Hayward got home he was a broken man whose sanity had more than likely unravelled overseas.
He ended up dying from a Heroin overdose... a free man.....in physicality only.
The saddest part of this whole story is that Paul Hayward prior
to being locked away had never used drugs or even seen Heroin.
He got addicted in a Thai prison .
If your interested in and are unaware of this story you can read Warren Fellows book
" The Damage Done" .
I've read it about 5 times , it's only about 350 pages and an absolute page turner.
I usually read it on overseas trips and then give it other travellers...
..........just in case they need an excuse not to be an idiot.
Funny thing is it is for sale everywhere in Bangkok's main airport.
I struggle to understand their way of thinking sometimes...it doesn't seem to bother them that their
dirty laundry is being aired in such a detrimental and public way.
Maybe they think it is a deterrent......it paints a very bad picture of Thai prison system.
One other shocking but somehow amusing part of the book is about one of Fellows earlier smuggling trip's .
He flew into Sydney airport and was carrying a rather large amount of smack.
When he went to go through customs he noticed the cops had been tipped off about
a drug smuggler coming through ( probably him).
He had also noticed a bunch of coppers on their way home from a holiday/junket , they were
all pissed up good .
He decided to get amongst them , a few of them flashed their Badges and got let straight through.
One of the stupid pissed coppers had his arm around Fellows , all the drug cops and custom officials
assumed Fellows was one of the pissed cops.
He got let straight through.
I can only assume with what is happening in Bali at the moment that the tele thought
that now was as good a time as ever to tell his story , albeit very briefly.
He played for the Jets in the 70's and was also an
accomplished boxer at the time.( NSW amateur welterweight champ)
He got himself mixed up with a bloke called Warren Fellows
who's father rode 1949 Melbourne cup winner "Foxzami".
Fellows was a hairdresser/drug smuggler and had done numerous
"mule" runs for certain Sydney underworld characters through India .
Fellows coerced Hayward into going to Thailand with him as a bit of hired help to collect some money.
Both men always claimed that only Fellows was privy to the true reason, which was a Heroin smuggling job.
To cut a long and harrowing story short , they both got busted and convicted of smuggling around 8 Kg's
of Heroin and were given bloody long sentence's . This obviously spelt the end of
Haywards football career.
They both spent around 11 (and some) years in Bwang Kwang and other notoriously brutal Thai prisons.
They both got pardons on the Kings birthday or some shite and were sent back home.
When Hayward got home he was a broken man whose sanity had more than likely unravelled overseas.
He ended up dying from a Heroin overdose... a free man.....in physicality only.
The saddest part of this whole story is that Paul Hayward prior
to being locked away had never used drugs or even seen Heroin.
He got addicted in a Thai prison .
If your interested in and are unaware of this story you can read Warren Fellows book
" The Damage Done" .
I've read it about 5 times , it's only about 350 pages and an absolute page turner.
I usually read it on overseas trips and then give it other travellers...
..........just in case they need an excuse not to be an idiot.
Funny thing is it is for sale everywhere in Bangkok's main airport.
I struggle to understand their way of thinking sometimes...it doesn't seem to bother them that their
dirty laundry is being aired in such a detrimental and public way.
Maybe they think it is a deterrent......it paints a very bad picture of Thai prison system.
One other shocking but somehow amusing part of the book is about one of Fellows earlier smuggling trip's .
He flew into Sydney airport and was carrying a rather large amount of smack.
When he went to go through customs he noticed the cops had been tipped off about
a drug smuggler coming through ( probably him).
He had also noticed a bunch of coppers on their way home from a holiday/junket , they were
all pissed up good .
He decided to get amongst them , a few of them flashed their Badges and got let straight through.
One of the stupid pissed coppers had his arm around Fellows , all the drug cops and custom officials
assumed Fellows was one of the pissed cops.
He got let straight through.
