Sandra Gregory's Story
This series tells the true stories that would be any traveller’s worst nightmare - when a holiday in paradise becomes a journey into hell that ends up in prison abroad.

Through graphic dramatic reconstruction, each film tells the story of someone who’s been arrested and thrown into a foreign prison. It could be for smuggling drugs, falling foul of local corrupt policemen or for being duped into carrying illegal goods through customs.

In all cases, the films follow the sinking sense of horror from the build up to the moment of arrest, their journey through an incomprehensible legal process, the coming to terms with the details of life in a hellhole jail, and the devastating fall out with their family and friends.

When Sandra was 25 she left a happy middle class upbringing in Kent and the modest antiques business she'd set up to go on holiday to Thailand for two months. She fell in love with the country and stayed for two years, teaching English to Thais.

When Sandra fell ill she was unable to continue teaching and found herself without any money - not even the fare for the flight home. Then she met Robert Locke, who seemed to offer her a way out of her predicament.