British woman who dodged death sentence for drugs is arrested after going BACK to Thailand 'to tie up loose ends'

Sandra Gregory, 44, is understood to have attempted to return to the country to 'tie up some loose ends'.

The West Yorkshire woman told friends she had been held by security at Bangkok Airport after problems with her visa.

She was originally sentenced to death in 1993 after being caught with heroin at the airport but received a pardon from the King of Thailand in 2000.

Today, friends said she had tried to go back to Thailand but contacted them yesterday to say she was being held at the airport and was expecting to be deported soon.

It is believed that she has since been put on a flight out of the country.

Susan May, a miscarriages of justice campaigner, said she received a text message from her friend last night.

She said: 'Sandra just texted me last night to tell me that she's been held at the airport and not allowed in.

'The last thing she said was she was expecting to be sent home today so I'm hoping she will be.'

Ms May said her friend told her there was a problem with her visas to enter Thailand.

'She was pardoned by the King of Thailand but obviously she is not allowed in,' she said.

'She is a very capable girl, she's a lovely girl and I'm quite sure she'll be OK.'

Ms Gregory was sentenced to death after being caught with 3.1oz (86.9g) of heroin inside a condom in her body at Bangkok Airport in 1993.
The drugs were not hers - she had freely admitted to using drugs in the past, although never heroin. Instead, she was carrying them for an acquaintance.

(...) The sentence was commuted to 25 years in prison after she admitted the charge and she spent four and a half years in the notorious Klong Prem Prison - known as the Bangkok Hilton - before being transferred to a jail in Kent.

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