Warren Fellows
Australian drug trafficker
Warren Fellows (13 September 1953 – 14 January 2022) was an Australian convicted drug courier who was sentenced to life imprisonment in Thailand in 1978 for his role in a heroin trafficking operation. In his best-selling book The Damage Done, Fellows describes the violence and harsh conditions he experienced in Thai prisons.
Biography
Early life
Fellows was born in Sydney, Australia, on 13 September 1953, the youngest of three children. His father was a champion jockey and horse trainer who won the 1949 Melbourne Cup on Foxzami. Fellows was educated at De La Salle College, a Catholic school for boys in Ashfield. He claimed he was nearly expelled from the school when he was caught running a horse betting operation from his school desk.
Drug trafficking
Fellows worked in various jobs, including as a bartender and an apprentice hairdresser in Double Bay. It was through his bar work that he first became involved with drug trafficking, successfully importing hash from India with a friend. On his return to Australia, he married and had a child. He was later hired to travel to Los Angeles, Hawaii, and South America to smuggle cocaine into Australia.
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