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‘I survived the bangkok hilton’

Whatever your idea of a nightmare is, think again. This is how Holly Deane-Johns remembers her time in the notorious Thai prison known as the Bangkok Hilton.

“You go into survival mode,” Holly tells Woman’s Day. “The things I saw, I couldn’t believe. You’d look into other prisoners’ eyes and there was nothing there any more. That was scary as that could be you some day.”

Holly, now 52, was arrested in 2000 after

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