{"id":55707,"date":"2023-06-04T02:57:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T17:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/03\/boss-richard-wakeling-extradited-from-thailand-starts-jail-sentence"},"modified":"2023-06-04T02:57:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T17:57:02","slug":"richard-wakeling-crime-boss-extradited-to-uk-from-thailand-starts-jail-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55707","title":{"rendered":"Richard Wakeling, crime boss extradited to UK from Thailand, starts jail sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drug importer fled UK in 2018 before trial that led to 11-year prison term but was captured at a Bangkok garage in February<\/p>\n<p>An organised crime boss described as a most wanted fugitive after going on the run in 2018 has been jailed after his extradition to the UK from Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Wakeling arrived back in the country on Thursday evening and appeared at Chelmsford crown court on Friday afternoon, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/03\/boss-richard-wakeling-extradited-from-thailand-starts-jail-sentence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drug importer fled UK in 2018 before trial that led to 11-year prison term but was captured at a Bangkok garage in FebruaryAn organised crime boss described as a most wanted fugitive after going on the run in 2018 has been jailed after his extradition &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[983,372,1057,911,93,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-drugs","category-drugs-trade","category-essex","category-thailand","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55708,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55707\/revisions\/55708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}