A man  from England has been released from a Thai jail after serving more than 17 years for a crime he says he did not commit. Alan John Victor Davies, 66, arrived at Heathrow Airport to be met by friends and well-wishers. Businessman Mr Davies lived in Parkstone, in the late 1980s, when he left the UK for Thailand. He intended to visit his elderly mother in Poole in May 1990, but never saw her again. Instead he was plunged into a nightmare when he and two other men were arrested at a Bangkok bank in January 1990 and charged with conspiracy to smuggle heroin. From the outset, Mr Davies insisted he had been framed.

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