British national Anthony Flannaghan was sentenced to...

British national Anthony Flannaghan was sentenced to death in Thailand.
The Bangkok Criminal Court found Flannaghan, 33, guilty of possessing illegal drugs with intent to sell and sentenced him to death, said a court official who asked not to be identified. The court jailed his associate Stephen Wilcox, 39, who pleaded guilty to possession of drugs, to 33 years imprisonment and fined him 800,000 baht.
"The first defendant denied all charges so he faced the death sentence, but the second defendant got a jail term because he pleaded guilty," the official said. "Both defendants have 30 days to appeal."
Police arrested Flannaghan and seized an unspecified amount of heroin from him in April 2003 as he got off a bus in Bangkok from the southern province of Surat Thani. Flannaghan said Wilcox had hired him to transport the drugs. Police then searched Wilcox's house on Samui island in the Gulf of Thailand and found 35 grams (1.2 oz) of heroin, 11 methamphetamine pills, 14 ecstasy pills and 30 grams (one ounce) of marijuana.