Welcome to Hell

Colin Martin's autobiography chronicles an innocent man's struggle to survive inside one of the world's most dangerous prisons. After being swindled out of a fortune, Martin was let down by the hopelessly corrupt Thai police. Forced to rely upon his own resources, he tracked down the man who conned him and, drawn into a fight, accidentally stabbed and killed that man's bodyguard. Martin was arrested, brutally tortured by the Thai Tourist Police, denied a fair trial, convicted of murder and thrown into prison-where he remained for eight years. Honest and often disturbing-but told with a surprising humour-Welcome to Hell is the remarkable story of how Martin was denied justice again and again. In this extraordinary account he describes the swindle, his arrest and vicious torture by police, the unfair trial, and the eight years of brutality and squalor he was forced to endure.