The Damage Done

Warren Fellows

Feb 1999 · Pan Australia

About this ebook

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

Ratings and reviews

This is in my top 2 books, I've read it so so many times, such a captivating story and the way it is written, no gimmicky writing, an amazing book that I recommend everybody read. I can't rave on enough about it, it will stay with you for the rest of your life.

This book effected me so emotionally deeply that it seeped into my dreams the past 2 nights turning into a few separate nightmares, I read it when i was a teenager but didn't remember it very well, i must say i agree with Warren fellows, that anyone who believes someone deserves or that could wish this type of inhumane existence and torture on another human being is a bigger criminal than him, a sadistic and twisted one at that.. Brilliant book, i am greatful Warren shared his story with the world.

I am in awe of this book. The best I have read by far. Every second I had to spare was used to read a few more pages of this book. I couldn't stop. Inspiring in a sense and eye opening in another. I cannot recommend reading this any more than I can with giving it 5 stars... wish I could give it more.

About the author

Warren Fellows (1953-2022) was a former Australian drug courier who was sentenced to life imprisonment in Thailand in 1978 for his role in a heroin trafficking operation that took place from Perth to Bangkok. He was a free man upon his return from Thailand in 1989. He lived in Sydney, Australia, with his mother.