Colin Martin
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Colin Martin is an Irish citizen from Carrickmacross, County Monaghan, who was imprisoned in Thai prisons for the crime of murder.[1]
He is the author of the book Welcome to Hell: One Man's Fight for Life Inside the Bangkok Hilton, about his experiences in the Thai legal system, and in the Thai prison system.
Martin claims that the events that led to his imprisonment began when he was swindled out of a fortune. He tracked down the man who conned him, and drawn into a fight, accidentally stabbed and killed that man's bodyguard. Marsh claims that his trial in Thailand was unfair. He served almost eight years in Thai prisons. [2]
He was released from the Lard Yao prison near Bangkok on 18 January 2005 and was deported from Thailand shortly after that date.
He continues to work as a welder.
[edit] Further reading
- Martin, Colin (2005). Welcome to Hell: One Man's Fight for Life Inside the Bangkok Hilton. Ireland: Maverick House Publishers. ISBN 0954870778.
[edit] References
- ^ McConnell, Daniel (21 January 2005). "Irishman released from Thai prison". Irish Times. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2005/0121/1104400415420.html. Retrieved 2008-05-10.
- ^ Martin, Colin (2005). Welcome to Hell: One Man's Fight for Life Inside the Bangkok Hilton. Ireland: Maverick House Publishers. ISBN 0954870778.
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