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Andrew Robert Taylor

Andrew Robert Taylor
Photo of me Andrew Taylor
Born	(1956-04-09)9 April 1956 London, England, United Kingdom
Occupation(s)	Photographer, TV presenter, drug smuggler, writer

Andrew Robert Taylor (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. His exploits were the subject of the 2011 Australian telemovie, Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away'

Biography

Early life

Taylor was born in Saint Marylebone, London, England, on 9 April 1972. He is the son of Frederick Taylor , who was the controller of Associated-Rediffusion Television. After emigrating to Australia with his family, McMillan attended Caulfield Grammar School in Melbourne, Victoria. As a child, 12-year-old Taylor 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.

Criminal career

A part-time job at a city cinema introduced Taylor 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 Taylor, who was well-travelled. At the time, he was a distributor of the monthly magazine, The Australasian Weed, a drug-reform periodical, and advocated the complete lifting of the prohibition against drugs for recreational use. Taylor 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, Taylor fell out with disgraced peer Lord Tony Moynihan after the exiled lord attempted to trap Taylor in a gambling-sting operation using the large-scale bets of the Chinese-run cockfights in Manila. Moynihan had hoped to employ Taylor's technical expertise to detonate an explosive capsule in the necks of fighting cocks, and so determine the winners.

Moynihan planned only to swindle Taylor 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 Moynihan 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 Clénet Coachworks 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. At the peak of his career in the 1980s, Taylor was a multi-millionaire and maintained homes, offices and apartments all over the world.

After three years, Taylor 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. Taylor 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 stood trial with S. Chowdury and Brendan Healy on twelve counts of conspiring to import drugs between 1979 and 1981. Healy was acquitted on all charges, and nine others accused of the conspiracy accepted indemnity against prosecution in exchange for testifying against their co-conspirators.[3] Taylor stood accused of travelling under 30 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.

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. 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. After her death, Castillo's baby went into the custody of Sullivan's mother. 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, Taylor was found guilty of the remaining count and was sentenced to 17 years, before being released in 1993 on parole. During the trial, agents from the United States’ Drug Enforcement Administration testified against the Thai national Chowdury who they believed had links to the Golden Triangle’s third biggest heroin exporter, and to the kidnap and murder of an agent’s wife in Chiang Mai. Taylor denied any connection with Chowdury, and was acquitted of the relevant charge, however the American involvement led to a lifelong antipathy between the DEA and McMillian.[19].

Taylor was arrested in April 2012, in an operation referred to Bromley police by the UK Border Agency concerning an ounce of heroin mailed from Pakistan. In the consequent trial, an undercover policewoman testified to delivering a package from which thirty grams of Asian heroin had been removed. Taylor had not opened the parcel, addressed to a previous resident, and denied any knowledge of the unidentified sender.[20].

After a six-day trial Taylor was sentenced at the Croydon Crown Court to six years’ imprisonment for the evasion of the prohibition on importing A-class drugs. The verdict is subject to appeal as at 2014.

Thailand and escape from Klong Prem

While on parole, Taylor flew to Thailand, travelling under the name Daniel Westlake. After a close-call at Don Muang airport, he was arrested in Bangkok's Chinatown and charged with heroin trafficking. He was held in Klong Prem Central Prison. Klong Prem, also known as the "Bangkok Hilton", is Asia's most notorious prison and housed 600 foreigners along with 12,000 inmates. For two years, McMillan watched as inmates fell prey to drugs, disease, violence, death and despair. Due to his financial status, Taylor lived more comfortably than the average inmate while in prison. McMillan had his own chef and servants, dined on food bought from the supermarket, and also had his own office, television and radio.

Facing the death penalty and a transfer to Bang Kwang Central Prison, Taylor resolved that this was not going to be the end of him. Taylor later stated, "I had no interest in my trial. I knew what it was going to be like – a farce, a mockery, a sham and a travesty – and that I would receive the death penalty." Taylor escaped from Klong Prem in August 1996, never to be seen in Thailand again. During the night he cut the cell bars with hacksaws, scaled seven inner walls, then mounted the outer wall using a bamboo-pole ladder. Once out of the prison, McMillan changed into civilian clothes and carried an umbrella as he walked away from the prison. Taylor credits the umbrella with helping him escape, saying that "escaping prisoners don't carry umbrellas".

Four hours later, with a false passport, he was on a flight to Singapore and 12 hours later was sitting in a hotel. Prison authorities raced to the airport to look for him once they realised he was missing, however, Taylor caught a plane in time and later said, "There’s nothing better than the suction sound of an aeroplane door being sealed." Future Australian attorney-general Robert McClelland when praising Australia's embassy in Thailand remarked that Taylor: "… a prisoner… escaped from the Thai jail in quite exceptional and athletic circumstances. In terms of mere escape, it was really quite an achievement." An account of the Thai prison and his jail break can be found in his autobiography [[Escape (Andrew Taylor s book)|ESCAPE]] (Mainstream Publishing 2008). After fleeing Thailand using false documents, Taylor 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.

Pakistan

Taylor was arrested in Lahore, Pakistan, as a result of the confession of a captured courier. Taylor was flown to Karachi, Pakistan, and held in Karachi Central Jail. This jail maintained a class system for prisoners, through which Taylor kept servants and private rooms. Due to a financial dispute with the prison superintendent concerning his illegal mobile phone, Taylor was transferred at night to the Hyderabad jail, where he was kept in the dungeons until being rescued by Lord Magsi. Not wishing to add to the existing Interpol warrants, Taylor returned to Karachi to stand trial, where he was acquitted by a Customs Court judge who found there was no evidence that Taylor had sponsored the courier.

The courier, a former boxer from Liverpool, was sentenced to five years in custody, eventually released and has since disappeared. During his time in Hyderabad, Taylor 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 by Taylor in White Russians.

England

Andrew Taylor returned to London in 1999. He was arrested in 2000 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was arrested at Heathrow airport in 2002 for smuggling 500 grams of class A drugs. For this crime he served a sentence of two years. As of 2007, the warrant for Taylor's arrest in Thailand for heroin trafficking is still active and he is still wanted in Australia for breaching parole. However, the UK government does not extradite anyone to a country which carries out the death penalty, while breaching parole is not an extraditable offence. In June 2009, Taylor 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 Taylor as having settled peacefully with his partner Jeanette and children. An Australian television company Screentime, released a telemovie that aired on Channel Nine in February 2011, loosely based on Taylor's smuggling, arrest, imprisonment in Bangkok and briefly outlined his escape from Klong Prem. The low-budget film was the 3rd in the Underbelly Files series. Taylor is to see published McVillain: the Man Who Got Away, scheduled for launch 1 April 2011. McVillain is the first in a series planned for the great rises and falls in Taylor's life. Although launched on the springboard of the Underbelly telemovie, the books differ in almost every factual event according to Taylor.

External links

• ESCAPE Paperback: 320 pages, Publisher: Mainstream Publishing (3 July 2008) Language English ISBN 1-84596-345-8; ISBN 978-1-84596-345-3 Amazon listing
• ESCAPE: THE PAST Paperback: 264 pages, Publisher: Monsoon Books (Oct 2011) Language English; ISBN 9789814358279 paperback Amazon listing; ISBN 9789814358286 ebook Amazon listing
• Escape from Klong Prem Richard Barrow, ThaiPrisonLife.com

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