Possible Death Penalty for Drug Smuggling Housewife

The Halk · 10 Jun 2012 at 13:43

BBC story
Daily Mail with interview

Seems she was coerced into carrying lots of drugs by threats to her son.

No sympathy from me. Everybody has a sob story. That amount of drugs would have caused a great deal of pain and suffering and death.

I don't agree with drugs being illegal, however while they are illegal and while it's scumbag criminals running the drug cartels then I have no sympathy for people who work with them.

Opinions?

Nitefly · 10 Jun 2012 at 13:45

I'm going to Bali soon.

Errr, I better not smuggle any drugs :eek:

Death penalty is totally stupid though.

Participant · 10 Jun 2012 at 13:46

"The death penalty has been used in the past for drug traffickers, but in recent years it has been applied infrequently."

So they probably won't kill her. Crazy to attempt this though, I can't believe people are so stupid as to risk this. Do it in Europe or something where at least you won't be shot or hanged for it.

Glaucus · 10 Jun 2012 at 13:49

Robbie G said:
So they probably won't kill her. Crazy to attempt this though, I can't believe people are so stupid as to risk this. Do it in Europe or something where at least you won't be shot or hanged for it.

apparently death threat on her son, but of course he wasn't involved in the drug factory that he lived next door to. And he was also sentenced for robbery.

Why not just move the son to India.

Sounds like a typical daily meal family, wonder how much she's been paid for that interview.

Participant · 10 Jun 2012 at 13:53

I don't believe that story, because if it were true, her son should have just gotten on the next plane back to blighty rather than ask her mum to ship drugs to him.

RomanNose · 10 Jun 2012 at 13:55

Now that's what you call a bad day at work.

orderoftheflame · 10 Jun 2012 at 14:01

I don't really agree with the death penalty for most crimes, but the consequences of being caught with drugs in that part of the world are pretty well known. She made her own choice, she has to deal with it.

Dabbles · 10 Jun 2012 at 14:07

orderoftheflame said:
I don't really agree with the death penalty for most crimes, but the consequences of being caught with drugs in that part of the world are pretty well known. She made her own choice, she has to deal with it.

This. She knew the consequences when she smuggled drugs into a far east country.

When I flew to Australia we had a stop in Singapore. There was an announcement made before landing telling everyone that people can and have been sentenced to death for drug smuggling and not to do it.

It's not like you get there and think 'oh ****, I didn't know!'

KaHn · 10 Jun 2012 at 14:20

I'll see if i can find my visa thing for Singapore, in bold writing on it, drug smugglers will be executed.

Not something you really "forget" now is it?

KaHn

KatanaDV20 · 10 Jun 2012 at 14:31

Wish we had that kind of penalty here for the UK burglar scum, mugger scum and the scum like that guy who raped the girl who missed her bus.

Dabbles · 10 Jun 2012 at 14:33

KatanaDV20 said:
Wish we had that kind of penalty here for the UK burglar scum, mugger scum and the scum like that guy who raped the girl who missed her bus.

What about the bus driver? He seemed to get a massive proportion of the blame from some quarters!

N17 · 10 Jun 2012 at 15:45

Stupid old woman. Rules are rules when you visit another country...... Serves her right

Sin_Chase · 10 Jun 2012 at 15:49

KaHn said:
I'll see if i can find my visa thing for Singapore, in bold writing on it, drug smugglers will be executed.

Not something you really "forget" now is it?

KaHn

Checked my passport stamps for Singapore, not on the stamp itself but the landing card has it in HUGE bolded lettering.

I even think some flights have announced it over tannoy when handing them out.

the shadow · 10 Jun 2012 at 15:53

Her old Neighbours must be Thinking Death to Chav Scum

steve-h · 10 Jun 2012 at 15:56

Haha, government is telling people what they can and can't do and enforcing it with money they've stolen from people... nothing new, move along people.

Lummox · 10 Jun 2012 at 15:58

If you can't do the time...................................................

RomanNose · 10 Jun 2012 at 16:00

Lummox said:
If you can't do the time...................................................

steve-h · 10 Jun 2012 at 16:01

Lummox said:
If you can't do the time...................................................

That's a pretty rhyme, but actually think about the bigger picture and you might come to a different conclusion.

KaHn · 10 Jun 2012 at 16:39

Sin_Chase said:
Checked my passport stamps for Singapore, not on the stamp itself but the landing card has it in HUGE bolded lettering.

I even think some flights have announced it over tannoy when handing them out.

Sorry, thats what I meant the landing card which works as a visa waiver if you are only in the country for business "meetings"

KaHn

Nexus · 10 Jun 2012 at 16:50

From reading her interview, its difficult to work out whether she is proper drugs smuggler who is lying, or whether she is just really stupid.

Either way, she knows what she did was wrong and even admits to that before even attempting to travel with the drugs. There seems to be a lot that doesn't add up also, with her view that her sons were good lads with learning problems, yet they appear to be criminals, not to mention former neighbours claiming they were 'neighbours from hell'. She also lives in India in a mud hut and only buys rice and gas every 6 months... yet she also works for a legal firm and flies back and forth between various countries? It doesn't make sense.

The problem with cases like this is that I try and put myself in their shoes as to what they are going through and it must be about the grimmest situation you can possibly be in. If she genuinely was somebody of unstable mind who didn't know what she was doing, then I could have some sympathy, but I don't think that's 100% the case with her, so I can't give her any sympathy and she is likely to deserve whatever she gets.