Australian drug trafficker breaks silence on hellish 7 years in Thai prison

An Australian woman convicted of drug trafficking has broken her silence about her hellish seven years behind bars in a maximum-security prison in Bangkok, Thailand.

Holly Deane-Johns was spared the death sentence and handed 31 years in prison in 2003 after pleading guilty to attempting to post 10.6 grams of heroin from Thailand to Australia in 2000 when she was 29 years old. She is now 51.

Deane-Johns spent seven years in horrendous conditions in the cramped Lard Yao Women’s Prison in Bangkok before she was transferred to a prison in Perth in 2007.

The Australian said she was shoved into a tiny five-by-six metre cell with 120 women.

The prisoners slept piled on top of each other like sardines and would lose their spot if they got up to use the toilet, she said.

On several occasions, Deane-Johns said she woke up with other people’s period blood on her. That’s how tightly…