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dirty guru
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Last night I watched a crime show on TV and thought it was Bull shit but nope its true- In the show he was in Bangkok Hilton and facing death-
He was allowed Painting materials - and then Frames-
He constructed a ladder out of those frames-
Had hacksaws smugglered in-
The escape was considered in degree next to impossible
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TcxAGxsfxM&feature=related
For those that dont want to read whole article heres the main point
] Arrest and escape in ThailandWhile on parole McMillan flew to Thailand. He was arrested in Bangkok's Chinatown, charged with heroin trafficking. He was held in Klong Prem Central Prison.[6]
Facing the death penalty and a transfer to Bang Kwang Central Prison, McMillan escaped from Klong Prem in August 1996. During the night he cut his cell bars with hacksaws, scaled four inner walls, then mounted the outer wall using a bamboo-pole ladder. Four hours later, with a false passport, he was on a flight to Singapore.[6] Future Australian attorney-general Robert McClelland when praising Australia's embassy in Thailand remarked that McMillan: … a prisoner … escaped from the Thai jail in quite exceptional and athletic circumstances. In terms of mere escape, it was really quite an achievement.” [7]
David McMillan the only westerner to escape from Bangkok Hilton
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Born 9 April 1956(1956-04-09)
London, England, United Kingdom
Occupation Photographer, TV Presenter (as a child), Smuggler, Writer
David McMillan (born 1956) is a British-Australian drug smuggler who is best known for being the only Westerner on record as having successfully escaped Bangkok's Klong Prem prison.[1] His exploits were the subject of the 2011 Australian telemovie, Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away.
Early lifeMcMillan was born in Saint Marylebone, London, England on 9 April 1956. He is the son of John McMillan CBE, who was the controller of Associated-Rediffusion Television. After emigrating to Australia with his family, the younger mcMillan attended Caulfield Grammar School in Melbourne, Victoria. As a child, 12-year-old McMillan appeared nightly on the Nine Network's 'Peters Junior News', presenting news stories for children in a regular 5-minute TV bulletin. After working as a cinema projectionist and camera operator in Sydney, he began a short-lived career in advertising with Masius Wynne Williams in Melbourne.
[edit] HistoryA part-time job at a city cinema introduced McMillan to the fringes of the underworld; a group of safe-crackers who had turned to narcotics when police surveillance curtailed their traditional profession. Connections with the free-marijuana hippie lobbyists brought those two worlds together, and a tempting opportunity for someone who was well-travelled. McMillan then began a career as a drug smuggler, during which he developed the bag-duplication system at Sydney's Kingsford-Smith airport in the late 1970s as he smuggled hashish from India.
In 1979, McMillan fell out with disgraced peer, Lord Tony Moynihan, after the exiled lord attempted to trap McMillan in a gambling-sting operation using the large-scale bets of the Chinese-run cockfights in Manila. Moynihan had hoped to employ McMillan's technical expertise to detonate an explosive capsule in the necks of fighting cocks, and so determine the winners. In fact, Moynihan planned only to swindle McMillan out of the betting stake after a test game. McMillan was alerted to the scam by his Chinese film-making friends, and left the Philippines after cautioning Moynihan. Lord Tony would later move on to hoodwink smuggler Howard Marks in the 1980s, resulting in Marks's conviction and imprisonment in Florida.
Imprudent spending attracted the attention of federal police when a Clenet automobile was imported from California bearing papers that had greatly undervalued the vehicle. This slip-up led to a major investigation which eventually revealed houses, businesses and properties along the eastern coast of Australia bought with cash and valued in millions of dollars. These assets later became the subject of Australia's first important confiscation of drug-earned assets.
[edit] Arrest in AustraliaAfter three years, McMillian and business partner Michael Sullivan were arrested following Operation Aries, a Victoria Police/Federal Police taskforce operation reported to have cost over A$2 million. McMillan and Sullivan, along with their partners, Clelia Teresa Vigano and Mary Escolar Castillo respectively, had been arrested on 5 January 1982 for conspiracy to import heroin. The four had several false passports between them, and in addition to conspiracy to import heroin, they were also charged with importing, selling, trafficking, and possession of heroin.[2] McMillan stood accused of travelling under thirty false passports and keeping station houses in London, Brussels and Bangkok. The trial heard charges of an attempt to escape Melbourne's high-security Pentridge Prison by helicopter using former SAS personnel in a scheme engineered by a vengeful Lord Moynihan.[3]
The prosecution opposed bail for Castillo, who had a four-month-old baby with Sullivan, because she had access to funds and it was thought she could flee to her wealthy parents in her native Colombia. The police surgeon reported that all four defendants were habitual heroin users.[2]
Clelia Vigano and Mary Castillo were two of three women who died in a fire at HM Prison Fairlea on the evening of Saturday 6 February 1982.[4] After her death, Catilo's baby went into the custody's of Sullivan's mother.[5]
The consequent six-month trial produced 116 witnesses and a hung jury that finally returned a verdict after seven days sequestration. Despite being acquitted of 11 of the 12 counts, McMillan was found guilty of the remaining count and was sentenced to a long sentence before being released in 1993 on parole, (an article in the Australian Financial Review gives his view of day-release after a long sentence).
[edit] Arrest and escape in ThailandWhile on parole McMillan flew to Thailand. He was arrested in Bangkok's Chinatown, charged with heroin trafficking. He was held in Klong Prem Central Prison.[6]
Facing the death penalty and a transfer to Bang Kwang Central Prison, McMillan escaped from Klong Prem in August 1996. During the night he cut his cell bars with hacksaws, scaled four inner walls, then mounted the outer wall using a bamboo-pole ladder. Four hours later, with a false passport, he was on a flight to Singapore.[6] Future Australian attorney-general Robert McClelland when praising Australia's embassy in Thailand remarked that McMillan: … a prisoner … escaped from the Thai jail in quite exceptional and athletic circumstances. In terms of mere escape, it was really quite an achievement.” [7]
An account of the Thai prison and his jail break can be found in the autobiography: (ESCAPE, Mainstream Publishing 2008).
After fleeing Thailand using false documents, McMillan was kept safe in Balouchistan, Pakistan under the protection of Mir Noor Jehan Magsi of the Magsi clan, from where he began operations to Scandinavia.[8]
[edit] Arrest in PakistanSome years later, McMillan was arrested in Lahore, Pakistan as a result of the confession of a captured courier. McMillian was flown to Karachi, Pakistan, and held in Karachi Central Jail. This jail maintained a class system for prisoners, through which McMillan kept servants and private rooms. Due to a financial dispute with the prison superintendent concerning his illegal cellphone, McMillan was transferred at night to the Hyderabad jail, where he was kept in the dungeons until being rescued by Lord Magsi[citation needed]. Not wishing to add the existing Interpol warrants, McMillan returned to Karachi to stand trial, where he was acquitted by a Customs Court judge who found there was no evidence that McMillan had sponsored the courier. The courier, a former boxer from Liverpool, was sentenced to five years in custody, was eventually released and has since disappeared.
During his time in Hyderabad, McMillan formed a friendship with the members of a Moscow street gang, who were completing a ten-year sentence for the hijack of a commercial liner outside their Russian prison. The gang had been separated by the Russian prison authorities, a decision overcome by gang leader Andreas, who flew his hijacked aircraft to Krasnoyarsk from where he freed the other members of his team before flying to Pakistan, then under the control of General Zia al Huq, known for his independence from both the Soviet Union and the US. The story of the Russian prisoners and their ordeal has been written of by McMillan in White Russians.
David McMillan returned to London in 1999. He was arrested in 2000 in Copenhagen. He was later arrested at Heathrow in 2002 for smuggling 500 grams of class A drugs. For this crime he served a sentence of two years.
[edit] Life in EnglandAs of 2007, David McMillan was living quietly in England. The warrant for his arrest in Thailand for heroin trafficking was at that time still active and he was still wanted in Australia for breaching parole. However, the UK government refuses to extradite anyone to a country which carries out the death penalty, while breaching parole is not an extraditable offence.[6] In June 2009, McMillan appeared as a guest in a 50-minute episode of Danny Dyer's Deadliest Men 2: Living Dangerously, which aired on Bravo TV. The episode includes interviews and presents McMillan as having settled peacefully with partner Jeanette and children
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 3:23 pm on Feb. 21, 2011
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atl
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dude, I want to see "underbelly files" it looks like a cool flick 
atl
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 6:29 pm on Feb. 21, 2011
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BKKdreaming
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I guess my question is why go on TV and tell everyone you are a drug dealer and escaped prisioner,
Is that really going to help you when you have trouble with the local police ?
BK
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 7:52 pm on Feb. 21, 2011
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jingjo
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Cause he can Plus all the $$$$$$ he would of been payed DOH and he won't get Busted as long as he stays in England
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I agree DG Heroin Dealers and ya ba dealers should get Life!
Lowest scum of the Earth 
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 8:04 pm on Feb. 21, 2011
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dirty guru
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Infact he did so to make large amounts of money-
Underbelly the hit TV show in Australia also paid him for "certain" help in production-
The Guy is my book a ratbag as heroin is evil-
But the story was remarkable- some nice tits on the Go Go floor in it too : :
To this day he is the only westerner to escape from Thailands Bangkok Hilton-
Then he latter escaped from a Pakistani jail-
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Bangkok Women : Meet Beautiful Thai Girls
Posted on: 8:39 pm on Feb. 21, 2011
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atl
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DG, damn I cant open those links. Even after installing the suggested program......I will look elsewhere!!
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 5:04 pm on Feb. 22, 2011
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Biff
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You can get it as a download on a Torrent Site like Torrenz!
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Thai Girls : Meet Active Thai Girls
Posted on: 12:50 am on Feb. 23, 2011
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sai tai
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The Nine Network streams the episodes but are blocked in the US. You might get around it using an Australian proxy, but I haven't found a working free one.
2 of the original 3 seasons of Underbelly have recently been aired on DirecTV in the US. The episodes are still available via on demand. DirecTV is airing the series in chronological order which is not the order presented on Australian TV. Tale of 2 Cities was shown first followed by The Golden Mile.
Some of the best TV drama ever, and all based on true events.
You can watch most seasons via other streaming sites, but most of them are streamed from sites like megavideo which has limited free viewing.
The Man Who Got Away can be streamed from here...
http://watchnewfilms.com/movie.php?id=7272
The original 3 seasons can be found here, but you would need to sign up with megavideo, otherwise free viewing time is limited.
http://ganjavideo.com/TV_Shows/Underbelly.S01
http://ganjavideo.com/TV_Shows/Underbelly.S02
http://ganjavideo.com/TV_Shows/Underbelly.S03
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 1:02 pm on Mar. 5, 2011
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sai tai
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The Man Who Got Away deserved more than just a single 1.5 hour episode. The story was too rushed.
My favorite of the Underbelly series is Tale of Two Cities, the story of Kiwi Terry Clark who established the Mr Asia drug syndicate in Australia.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
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