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• UNFAVOURABLY AS SHE HAD NOT TAKEN HER CASE TO THE LIMIT OF THE APPEAL SYSTEM.CONSUL POINTED OUT
AT MISS NIGHTINGALE HAD INDEED LODGED AN APPEAL TO THE SUPREME COURT AND IT WAS ONLY AFTER A GOOD DEAL OF REFLECTION THAT SHE HAD WITHDRAWN IT.THE REASON FOR WITHDRAWAL WAS TO AVOID RISKING A FURTHER PERIOD OF WAITING, WHEN HER NAME COULDNOT BE INCLUDED IN AMNESTIES.
4.MR SUMET SAID THAT HE HAD RECENTLY ACCOMPANIED THE DEPUTY UNDER SECRETARY TO THE WOMENS PRISON, SO THAT THEY COULD SEE CONDITIONS FOR THEMSELVES. THEY HAD NOT SPOKEN TO MISS NIGHTINGALE BUT HAD DISCUSSED HER POSITION WITH THE COMMANDANT, WHO HAD REPORTED HER GOOD BEHAVIOUR AND COOPERATION.THE COMMANDANT ALSO MENTIONED THAT MISS NIGHTINGALE HAD BEEN UNWILLING TO TALK TO REPORTERS, REALISING THAT TOO MUCH PUBLICITY WOULD BE ADVERSE TO HER INTERESTS.
5.IN VIEW OF THIS GOOD BEHAVIOUR, MR SUMET DID NOT CONSIDER THAT MISS NIGHTINGALE WOULD SERVE MORE THAN HALF HER SENTENCE.HE TOOK IT THAT CONSUL WAS AWARE THAT A PRISONERS NAME COULD NOT BE INCLUDED IN THE FIRST AMNESTY AFTER THE CASE WAS CLOSED SO MISS NIGHTINGALE WOULD NOT BEBEFIT FROM THE AMNESTY WHICH WILL MARK THE KINGS BRITHDAY IN DECEMBER, HOWEVER," HE CONTINUED, THE CONSORT OF THE CROWN PRINCE WAS DUE TO GIVE BIRTH SOON AFTER THAT EVENT.THE MINISTRY HAD BEEN INFORMED THAT A SECOND AMNESTY WOULD BE ANNOUNCED IN CELEBRATION OF THE BIRTH,
AND MISS NIGHTINGALES NAME WOULD BE ·
INCLUDED FOR A REDUCTION OF SENTENCE.
6.MR SUMET SAID THAT HARSH SENTENCES WERE NECESSARY FOR NARCOTICS OFFENCES BECAUSE THAILAND WAS UNDER INTER-- NATIONAL PRESSURE TO COMBAT ABUSE, AND HAD HER OWN INTERNAL DRUG PROBLEMS AS WELL, HE POINTED OUT, HOWEVER, THAT FOREIGN PRISONERS WERE TREATED WELL AND HAD PRIVILEGES WHICH THAI PRISONERS DID NOT
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