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Andrew Robert Taylor

Andrew Robert Taylor
London, England
, United Kingdom
Occupation(s)Photographer, TV presenter, drug smuggler, writer

Andrew Robert Taylor (born 1956) is a British-Australian

Klong Prem prison.[1] 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

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

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.[2]

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

Pentridge Prison by helicopter using former SAS personnel in a scheme engineered by a vengeful Lord Moynihan.[3]

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.[4] 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.[5] After her death, Castillo's baby went into the custody of Sullivan's mother.[6] 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.[7] 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].[8]

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].[9]

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

despair. Due to his financial status, Taylor lived more comfortably than the average inmate while in prison.[11] McMillan had his own chef and servants, dined on food bought from the supermarket, and also had his own office, television and radio.[11]

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.[12] 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.[10] 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."[13] 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."[14] 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).

Balouchistan, Pakistan under the protection of Mir Noor Jehan Magsi of the Magsi clan, from where he began operations to Scandinavia.[16]

Pakistan

Taylor was arrested 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.[citation needed] 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

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

Bravo TV
.

The episode includes interviews and presents Taylor as having settled peacefully with his partner Jeanette and children.

Underbelly Files series. Taylor is to see published McVillain: the Man Who Got Away, scheduled for launch 1 April 2011.[19]
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.

References

  1. ^ http://www.amazon.com/Escape-Westerner-Thailands-Bangkok-Hilton/dp/9810575688
  2. ^ Drummond, Andrew (8 September 2007). "Drug runner a dead man laughing". The Australian.
  3. ^ Sydney Morning Herald. Copter Plan Foiled. 21 January 1983
  4. ^ Heroin syndicate used 17 false passports: police. The Age: 7 January 1982, p.5.
  5. ^ Bolt, Andrew. State warned in 1978 of Fairlea fire hazard. The Age: 8 February 1982, p.1.
  6. ^ Grandmother to care for fire victim's son. The Age: 11 February 1982, p.17.
  7. ^ an article in the Australian Financial Review gives his view of day-release after a long sentence
  8. ^ Mills, James, The Underground Empire, 1978
  9. ^ Trial Transcript, Croydon Crown Court, 5 August 2012
  10. ^ a b Andrew Drummond in Bangkok and Paul Cheston in London (14 September 2007). "Drug dealer who escaped Bangkok jail is on the run in London". Evening Standard. Retrieved 8 March 2009.
  11. ^ a b http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2007/09/16/lifestyle/lifestyle_30048997.php
  12. ^ "How to plan a successful jailbreak". BBC News. 1 March 2009.
  13. ^ http://www.metro.co.uk/news/862906-david-mcmillan-how-i-made-my-jailbreak-from-klong-prem-prison#ixzz1gVCpeYCd
  14. ^ Andrew Rule (12 September 2009). "There Was A Crooked Man". Melbourne: The Age. Retrieved 2 February 2010.
  15. ^ http://www.thaiprisonlife.com/books/escape/
  16. ^ Andrew Rule (2000). The One Who Got Away. The Sunday Age, Melbourne.29 October 2000
  17. ^ http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23412205-drug-dealer-who-escaped-bangkok-jail-is-on-the-run-in-london.do
  18. ^ http://aww.ninemsn.com.au/news/inthemag/8204592/why-i-married-a-wanted-man
  19. ^ http://www.panmacmillan.com.au/display_title.asp?ISBN=9780980717044&Author=Taylor,%20Andrew

External links

{{Persondata | NAME = Taylor, Andrew | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = British-Australian drug smuggler | DATE OF BIRTH = 9 April 1956 | PLACE OF BIRTH = [[London, England]], United Kingdom | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = }}

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