Charity worker feared being raped in 40-day Thai prison nightmare
Sean Felton, 47, says he fought off perverts and killers in Sakhon Nakon Prison but was looked after by the prison’s ‘daddy’.
A charity worker accused of trespassing spent more than a month in a Thai prison fearing he was going to be raped.
Sean Felton claims he fought off perverts and killers in the squalid conditions at Sakhon Nakon Prison.
He survived in a cramped cell – home to roughly 50 inmates – on three bowls of rice each day.
Sean had to sleep on the floor and bathed with fellow lags and was one of only two Farangs (westerners) in the prison.
The 47-year-old founder of Abducted Angels, an organisation dedicated to locating children taken abroad during family fractures, is back home now in the former pit village of Norton Canes, near Cannock.
But the nightmare he says he endured at Sakon Nakhon still hangs from him.
He was put into the prison for the offence of trespass, which can carry a five-year sentence in Thailand.
His crime was to have helped Scottish father Jodie Smith bring his ten-year-old son Joleon back home.
The pair were arrested after allegations they had entered the estranged wife’s home without permission.
Joleon Smith is now back with his father but the bleak memories remain with him.
“It was horrific,” said the father-of-one, “it was torment. I never want to experience it again.
“You were always scared of being raped. Blokes having sex in front of us was every day. You just had to look away.