Oxford graduate Sandra Gregory, now 44 years old, was arrested in Thailand in 1993 for smuggling heroin and sentenced to death. The sentence commuted to 25 years in prison after she admitted the offence and was confined in the notorious Klong Prem Prison for four and a half years before being transferred to a prison in Kent. In 2000, she …
It was THAT big
Ian Welch, a biologist from Aldershot, has been helping with a stingray tagging programme in Thailand. Deciding to go fishing, he ended up landing the biggest ever freshwater fish caught with a rod, a stingray no less. It took him ninety minutes to haul the monster from the water, about 10 metres deep at that point, and it required the …