My son was once known as an fool after cocaine was once discovered his pockets at a Thai airport… however he was once SET UP – here is my caution to different Brit holidaymakers

The mom of a person held at a Thai airport after a packet of cocaine was once present in his passport has warned that it might ‘occur to any person’ as she claims he was once ‘arrange’.

Michelle Swain, 57, says her circle of relatives went thru hell once they won a decision from her son pronouncing he had arrived at Phuket island for his much-anticipated vacation best to be arrested at immigration.

Jamie Louis Swain, then 29, from Stevenage, landed at Phuket International Airport together with his brother in May remaining 12 months however was once pulled apart when an immigration officer spotted a small plastic bag with white powder whilst flicking thru his passport to search out an empty web page to put the visa stamp.

Officers mentioned that Swain reacted with wonder, ahead of he began swearing and shaking, prompting government to behavior additional inspections and scan his baggage.

He was once then arrested the airport, the place police examined the substance present in his passport and showed it was once 0.42 grams of cocaine.

He was once mentioned to be going through as much as 20 years in prison beneath Thailand‘s Narcotics Act, however after a courtroom listening to in July was once deported again to the United Kingdom after being ordered to pay a high quality of 50,000 baht (£1,137).

Pictured: The bag discovered by means of Thai immigration in Jamie’s passport at Phuket airport

Speaking to MailOnline, his mom has detailed the stressful incident, alleging that it was once a ‘arrange’.

Ms Swain mentioned: ‘He went there together with his brother, were given thru Heathrow, Dubai, and were given to Thailand.

‘His brother were given thru together with his passport after which Jamie gave his passport and so they mentioned a bag fell out his passport.

‘People say this is because I’m his mum I do not imagine it, however to get thru two airports and the truth it is took place to people, I simply really feel that it was once a collection up.

‘I will’t lend a hand that, I do know I’m his mum, and I’m now not foolish I do know they are all doing this and all of it is going on, I’m now not naive I’ve were given 3 boys.

‘But I simply really feel love to get thru two airports after which unexpectedly this bag seems, and he’d had his passport out all that point, I simply in finding it very odd.

‘It was once lower than a gram, it was once ridiculous, nevertheless it was once sufficient, as our solicitor mentioned, to get cash out of you.

‘As I say, I nonetheless suppose [it was set up], I will’t lend a hand it, as a result of if that is the case then clearly Heathrow and Dubai airports don’t seem to be doing their activity.

‘You get feedback pronouncing “oh how stupid”, however no, as it wasn’t in there. It should had been installed there.

Pictured: Jamie Swain issues to the bag after being arrested by means of Thai government at Phuket Airport remaining 12 months

Pictured: A scan of Jamie’s baggage after he was once taken into custody by means of Thai immigration

‘I feel this occurs greater than we all know.

‘He’s now not the one individual it is took place to, I do know 3 other folks no less than the place it is been precisely what took place to Jamie. It’s simply an excessive amount of of a accident.’

Ms Swain informed of ways when she were reached out to by means of individuals who had reported ‘precisely’ the similar phenomenon of with regards to empty packets of cocaine being ‘discovered’ of their passports.

She mentioned her son was once then held in a ‘conserving mobile’ for round two days ahead of being set free on bail.

She had flown out to Phuket at the similar night time he were detained, and says the ‘terrible’ enjoy had her anxious he could be jailed in a overseas prison.

The mother-of-three mentioned: ‘I flew out that night time, immediately.

‘He was once taken to the police station after which he was once installed a jail mobile. He mentioned it was once now not in a large jail, as a result of he mentioned he may see the ocean from it.

‘He was once handcuffed in there with a Russian bloke, simply them two.

‘He mentioned there was once no water, no meals, not anything. ‘He was once in there about two days then he were given bail.

‘It wasn’t a prime bail quantity. He then needed to keep there [in Phuket] for 3 months no less than, they would not let him pass.

‘He had a courtroom date on the finish of July and he were given fined. He were given fined and deported, however they could not deport him from there, so he needed to pass to Bangkok.

Pictured: Thai government examined the powder and it got here again certain for cocaine

‘So he needed to get a flight from Phuket to Bangkok, and he was once installed Bangkok jail for a few days.

‘It wasn’t really nice in there from what he mentioned. It wasn’t excellent. He mentioned everybody within the jail have been extra considering his tale as a westerner, and so they mentioned to him “you’re not going to get out of here”. They mentioned they’d been there for years.

‘He had a sq. mat and that’s the reason the place he type of stayed. I do not understand how many have been in [the cell], however he mentioned there have been separate cells like Somalians and other religions, and so they mentioned “if you misbehave you go in there, and you don’t want to go in there”.

‘There have been fights in there.

‘But he controlled to get thru it. He flew again in the beginning of August.’

While preliminary stories mentioned the 29-year-old may well be going through as much as 20 years in the back of bars, he was once launched on bail for the identical of £250, and his high quality got here as much as simply over £1,000.

The consequence got here as a aid to Ms Swain, who mentioned solicitors had first of all warned the courtroom may hand a sentence of six months to a 12 months in prison.

Under Thailand’s Narcotics Act, uploading cocaine into the rustic carries a most prison time period of 20 years to lifestyles and a high quality of £43,000 to 108,000 (2,000,000 – 5,000,000 Baht).

Cocaine ownership is punishable with as much as 5 years or a high quality now not exceeding £2,000 (100,000 Baht) or each.

Warning others, she mentioned whilst the rustic and the individuals are ‘gorgeous’ and ‘pleasant’, travellers will have to watch out.

She mentioned: ‘It was once simply intended to be a pleasing vacation. It may occur to any younger boys going in the market. There’s not anything you’ll be able to do, you’ll be able to watch out, but when that occurs there is not anything you’ll be able to do about it.

‘When I see an identical tales now, I do really feel for the circle of relatives.

‘Until you might be in that scenario, everybody feedback “oh you do the crime you do the time” however if you find yourself in that scenario it is terrible.

‘It’s being concerned, particularly in a foreign country, you do not discuss Thai.

‘Luckily our solicitor spoke English. Otherwise I have no idea what we’d have finished.

‘I have no idea what you do if you don’t have any cash or haven’t any one in the market.

‘It is horrifying for the children, it is taking place always in the market.

‘It was once simply an terrible enjoy, I would not wish to put any person ever thru that. I might by no means want it on any person.

‘The fear on my own was once horrible.

‘It’s a disgrace he needed to undergo that in point of fact, it might smash other folks’s lives. I do not believe they see the wear it might do to younger boys’ lives.’