Chinese state media says Karm Gilespie was detained on New Year's Eve 2013 at Guangzhou's Baiyun International AirportFriends are launching an appeal to help Mr Gilespiesentenced to death last Wednesday for trafficking 7.5 kilograms of methamphetamine,The former actor turned wealth adviser is originally from Melbourne but lived in Sydney and was prominent on social media before his posts stopped in late 2013.
Official details are scarce, but state media said he was detained on New Year's Eve 2013 at Guangzhou's Baiyun International Airport while trying to leave the country and he was found to have 7.5 kilograms of ice.One friend he used to regularly communicate with on Facebook, Jill Parris, wrote she was in "total emotional pain" upon learning about what had happened to her childhood friend.
Other friends expressed their astonishment online, saying they had been trying to find him after his disappearance.
CCP is out to rule the world. We need to stay clear of these guys.
This should not be turned into a story to make people feel sorry for him. If he was 'honest' he would not smuggle drugs. I wish the media wouldn't do this; try to make good people out of criminals.
When you turn up to a chinese airport they make it very clear that drugs carry serious penalties.
He was framed then?
It's absolutely death penalty to carry ice over 50g in China. He shouldn't do that if he really loves his family and friends.
Time for Australia to step up and bloody the CCP's nose!
7.5kg drug ice!! So smart person or false announce? r be suicided or BE dropped, OR BE Sudden cardiac death，or Be in accident!
If he was set up, then pray to god that they find a way to save him; but if he did it consciously, like S'pore former PM Lee Kuan Yew once said, 'tens and hundreds of families are destroyed and one death is too lenient.'
7.5 kg of drugs.. damn. In Singapore, you probably get the cane and death.
if he hasn’t been caught, 7.5kg ice could have destroyed hundreds of families
What a shame... ah well, what's for lunch ?
Appeal what? This is ridiculous. He was found guilty in China of trafficking drugs, and china carries the death penalty. A crime in another country does not mean you deserve punishment from your home country. Tough titties...
He thought they will send him to rehab like they do here
I may be anti death penalty, but anyone who comes up with the excuse this bloke did deserves to be executed for stupidity.
Perhaps he wasn't honest with his friends because he knew they thought he was honest to a fault (whatever that means)
About time, can we send the rest of our drug smugglers there? Save our tax money.
Good riddance to people trying to bring in meth. We don't need more of this drug here.
Is he given leniency from Aussies because he's white with blue eyes? He's a drug smuggler, ice destroyes lives, he gambled and lost.
Too bad. You dont innocently traffick 7.5kg of ice..
Honest to a fault, yet smuggling drugs, explain that one....
Nice guy importing 7 plus kilos of ice?
He is a drug dealer. Why is everyone defending him. All drug dealers should be sentenced to death once convicted not let off on bail and known to police when things go wrong
“Firends” saying they had no idea he’d been locked up in China . Sort of re-defines “friends” doesn’t it ?
The CCP fear the government's upcoming international investment laws. Now is the time to not back down. It shows the CCP are happy to kill people to get their way. They've been doing that for 70 years.
Shoot it
Other countries are NOT lenient toward drug smugglers and possessing drugs,what make people think that they will let them go easy for breaking the law? Their country, their rules.Don’t like it?then don’t go there and cause trouble as these people do not have a sense of humour!!!
He is innocent because? 1. He is Australian 2. Because a distant friend says so. 3. Because China Saya he is guilty.
It is good, which saved my tax for justice drug dealer and may let it free
Idiot
Why havnt we heard of this before now? Very odd that suddenly China decides on the death sentence when China Australian relationships have deteriated over COVID19 issues.
'The former actor turned wealth adviser' Wealth advisor? So what was his advice? Drug smuggling? I despise the death sentence but I despise even more the pain and suffering 7.5kg of ice would have unleashed on kids and families. Tough shit.
Interesting how China supports North Korea who make money smuggling drugs world wide but then they execute somebody transiting out of their country doing exactly the same thing.
did dfat know he was there for 7 years? how weird.
What did Australia do to piss off china?
He was caught with 7 kgs of drug!!!
Revenge is the modus operandi of THE CCP. What does anyone expect from authoritarian power-whores.
Your best strategy is don’t argue; be polite; don’t winge and don’t talk about your rights, be friendly.
Another casualty of prohibition...
AbolishTheDeathPenalty
If God show up in China with 7.5kg ice with him, he will be sentenced to death as well.
毒贩被判处死刑是应该的。
Gilespie, 56, was arrested in 2013 at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport with 7.5kg of the drug ice in his possession.
The tension with China has nothing to do with it. As long as he received a fair trial then he deserves what he gets in the certain knowledge that, if caught, he would be severly dealt with. That's the risk that he was prepared to take.
How stupid can people be to still smuggle drugs into Asian countries with tight drug laws? Little sympathy
Honest right up to the drug smuggling. Pfttt.
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