Gareth Chasmore faces life or death if convicted for drugs
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A MAN who attempted to smuggle almost £1m of drugs through an Indonesian airport could face the death penalty.
Gareth Chasmore, a 32-year-old roofer from Wakefield, was arrested at Soekarno-Hatta Airport, Jakarta, by customs officers on suspicion of trying to smuggle 6.5kg of methamphetamine hidden in a suitcase compartment.
He had been on a long-haul flight from Manchester, which stopped at Istanbul, before heading to Jakarta where he was arrested.
In South East Asia the laws on drug trafficking are draconian and culprits can expect a sentence of life imprisonment or the death penalty.
Full article on Gareth Chasmore here - does anyone know him?Gareth Chasmore, a 32-year-old roofer from Wakefield, was arrested at Soekarno-Hatta Airport, Jakarta, by customs officers on suspicion of trying to smuggle 6.5kg of methamphetamine hidden in a suitcase compartment.
He had been on a long-haul flight from Manchester, which stopped at Istanbul, before heading to Jakarta where he was arrested.
In South East Asia the laws on drug trafficking are draconian and culprits can expect a sentence of life imprisonment or the death penalty.
How can anyone expect to get through customs and multiple airports with drugs these days? Are all suitcases with hidden compartments x-rayed?
Also, why would drugs be flown from the UK to Indonesia, I thought drugs were generally exported out of the east, into the west.
I doubt we will see this bloke again. Of the last 30 or so cases (or so I read earlier this year) the "The bag isnt mine/didnt know the drugs were there" approach simply doesn't work. Chap has been caught red handed.
If he isn't a courier and is the 'mastermind' behind the haul, there is a good chance Gareth will will be facing the death penalty (firing squad over there) or the rest of his in a squalid Indonesian prison.
I proffer the sentiment that the dealers are just as bad as the few remaining countries still dishing out the death penalties
Currently reading a fascinating book about Sandra Gregory, anyone remember her ordeal?
Work this out then... a couple of weeks ago another bloke from Manchester was arrested trying to smuggle the same type of drug out of the same airport...
http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s...
http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s...
bigandclever said:
Work this out then... a couple of weeks ago another bloke from Manchester was arrested trying to smuggle the same type of drug out of the same airport...
http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s...
Perhaps that airport is a just a point along the route towards the eventual destination?http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s...
singlecoil said:
bigandclever said:
Work this out then... a couple of weeks ago another bloke from Manchester was arrested trying to smuggle the same type of drug out of the same airport...
http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s...
Perhaps that airport is a just a point along the route towards the eventual destination?http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s...
bigandclever said:
singlecoil said:
bigandclever said:
Work this out then... a couple of weeks ago another bloke from Manchester was arrested trying to smuggle the same type of drug out of the same airport...
http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s...
Perhaps that airport is a just a point along the route towards the eventual destination?http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s...
You do all understand WHY drugs mules are paid to do what they do, right?
You pay the drugs mule to smuggle, and then you tip off the authorities that they are smuggling. They get caught and serve their time. Meanwhile, your shipment of many kilos more goes through the airport, possibly on the same plane or possibly not, unnoticed and un-looked for.
The trafficker gets their shipment through, the Customs Officials get their man, and everyone keeps doing business as usual. Apart from the mule, who is simply a pawn offered up as sacrifice.
That's why people get caught both coming in and going out of Indonesia (and everywhere else) with trivial amounts of drugs.
You pay the drugs mule to smuggle, and then you tip off the authorities that they are smuggling. They get caught and serve their time. Meanwhile, your shipment of many kilos more goes through the airport, possibly on the same plane or possibly not, unnoticed and un-looked for.
The trafficker gets their shipment through, the Customs Officials get their man, and everyone keeps doing business as usual. Apart from the mule, who is simply a pawn offered up as sacrifice.
That's why people get caught both coming in and going out of Indonesia (and everywhere else) with trivial amounts of drugs.
k about with drugs out here. It's all over the customs forms.WeirdNeville said:
You do all understand WHY drugs mules are paid to do what they do, right?
You pay the drugs mule to smuggle, and then you tip off the authorities that they are smuggling. They get caught and serve their time. Meanwhile, your shipment of many kilos more goes through the airport, possibly on the same plane or possibly not, unnoticed and un-looked for.
The trafficker gets their shipment through, the Customs Officials get their man, and everyone keeps doing business as usual. Apart from the mule, who is simply a pawn offered up as sacrifice.
That's why people get caught both coming in and going out of Indonesia (and everywhere else) with trivial amounts of drugs.
Interesting observation - never heard that before. You pay the drugs mule to smuggle, and then you tip off the authorities that they are smuggling. They get caught and serve their time. Meanwhile, your shipment of many kilos more goes through the airport, possibly on the same plane or possibly not, unnoticed and un-looked for.
The trafficker gets their shipment through, the Customs Officials get their man, and everyone keeps doing business as usual. Apart from the mule, who is simply a pawn offered up as sacrifice.
That's why people get caught both coming in and going out of Indonesia (and everywhere else) with trivial amounts of drugs.
Agree with the sentiments about Mr Chasmore. My sympathies are limited (although I await the very-expensive representations by the UK government to the Indonesian authorities, petitioning for his release.
)Oli.
WeirdNeville said:
You do all understand WHY drugs mules are paid to do what they do, right?
You pay the drugs mule to smuggle, and then you tip off the authorities that they are smuggling. They get caught and serve their time. Meanwhile, your shipment of many kilos more goes through the airport, possibly on the same plane or possibly not, unnoticed and un-looked for.
The trafficker gets their shipment through, the Customs Officials get their man, and everyone keeps doing business as usual. Apart from the mule, who is simply a pawn offered up as sacrifice.
That's why people get caught both coming in and going out of Indonesia (and everywhere else) with trivial amounts of drugs.
You pay the drugs mule to smuggle, and then you tip off the authorities that they are smuggling. They get caught and serve their time. Meanwhile, your shipment of many kilos more goes through the airport, possibly on the same plane or possibly not, unnoticed and un-looked for.
The trafficker gets their shipment through, the Customs Officials get their man, and everyone keeps doing business as usual. Apart from the mule, who is simply a pawn offered up as sacrifice.
That's why people get caught both coming in and going out of Indonesia (and everywhere else) with trivial amounts of drugs.
It's the game they all play and the only one who doesn't know it is the mule ror the idiot who has invested a £100k of their own and is trying to start things off thinking that they would like a bit of the action.
singlecoil said:
HundredthIdiot said:
Has a Brit ever (or at least, in living memory) been executed in that region for drug smuggling?
I remember a Brit being hanged in Singapore?, IIRChttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Martin_Scripps
The Indo's prefer firing squads to hanging though. He may be lucky and have family with:
1. Lots of money
2. Connections
As that's the only way he's getting off a long and nasty stretch in an Indo jail for the rest of his life.
Still, well done for taking drugs into the largest muslim country in the world...
I have zero sympathy for anybody stupid enough to try and smuggle drugs, especially into or out of places like Indonesia.
The diabetic from Manchester was said to have sold meat in the local pubs, he was obviously offered the job thinking it would be easy and he could make a fast buck. This is the result.
The diabetic from Manchester was said to have sold meat in the local pubs, he was obviously offered the job thinking it would be easy and he could make a fast buck. This is the result.
link said:
“He had only recently got access to his young baby boy – he used to see him at weekends so all that will be finished for a while now too."
Idiot.However, reading the details of the Gregory case further down, she was convicted in 1993 and given the death penalty. This was then changed to 25 years.
She was released in 2000. So served 7 years.
Not THAT much risk then - if you have nothing, aren't educated or particularly intelligent and need the money for whatever reasons ... some will do it.
The time inside is ONE thing, but &*^&ing up the rest of your life with a drugs record is another
uk66fastback said:
The time inside is ONE thing, but &*^&ing up the rest of your life with a drugs record is another
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