Forget You Had a Daughter - Doing Time in the Bangkok Hilton

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Forget You Had A Daughter

DoingTime in the ‘Bangkok Hilton’ - Sandra Gregory’s Story

sandra gregory

with michael tierney

First published in Great Britain byVision Paperbacks, a division of Satin Publications Ltd.

This book is copyright under the Berne convention.All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system,

or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission of the publisher.

©
2002
Sandra Gregory and Michael Tierney Vision Paperbacks

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Southwark Street

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Publisher: Sheena Dewan

Cover design ©
2002
Button Design Company

Printed and bound in the UK by Mackays of Chatham Limited, Chatham, Kent

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For parents everywhere.

For all those who remain behind bars.

For those who will never leave.

And for Pippy.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye

Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

oscar wilde
,
The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Contents

Introduction by Martin Bell, OBE
1

1. ‘Boom, inThai,You Die’
   5
   

2. Class Act
   15
   

3. Opium Mountain
   28
   

4. In Sickness and Health
   41
   

5. Nothing Like the Sun
   58
   

6. Suicide is Painless
   73