Warren Fellows was convicted of a crime he did not commit and sentenced to life imprisonment in Bangkok’s notorious Bang Kwang men’s prison, the Bangkok Hilton. For twelve years, he suffered shocking conditions and brutal treatment at the hands of his guards, who would do anything to extract confessions from the convicted heroin traffickers. This is his remarkable story.
Since 1978 Warren Fellows has been living with his scars and nightmares, gripped by fear. His fellow prisoners in Bang Kwang prison, the Bangkok Hilton, preyed on this and tormented him constantly. He survived by following a code of honour and staying strong and silent. The Damage Done is his heartbreaking account of fighting to survive one hour at a time through the Bangkok Hilton’s seething penal population until he was released after twelve years.
Join the author as he recalls in simple and direct language the twelve years he spent in Bangkok’s notorious Bang Kwang men’s prison. He recounts with clarity and candour his experiences, both good and bad, during his incarceration.
In 1978 Warren Fellows, Paul Hayward and William Sinclair were convicted of heroin trafficking between Thailand and Australia. They were sentenced to life imprisonment in Bangkok’s notorious Bang Kwang men’s prison, the Bangkok Hilton. For Warren Fellows, it was the beginning of twelve years of hell. The Damage Done is his story told with honesty, self-knowledge, and humor – the confessions of a junkie tail gunner on a kamikaze mission.
About The Damage Done Book
In 1978 Warren Fellows, Paul Hayward and William Sinclair were convicted of heroin trafficking between Thailand and Australia. They were sentenced to life imprisonment in Bangkok’s notorious Bang Kwang men’s prison, the Bangkok Hilton. For Warren Fellows, it was the beginning of twelve years of hell.
The Damage Done takes you behind the bars of a Bangkok prison. A place where sewer rats and cockroaches are the only nutritious food, where autocratic prison guards giggle as they deliver pulverising blows and where the worst punishment by far is the khun deo – solitary confinement, Thai style.
Brutally honest and repentant of his initial crime, Warren talks about the decade of his life he lost in leg irons. The Damage Done is a brave and compelling book that poses harrowing questions on the nature of justice.
‘Not a book for the fainthearted…A gut-wrenching confessional of endless days and nights in purgatory.’ HERALD SUN
‘Exceptionally readable’ THE AUSTRALIAN.
