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Kim Eriksson Sirawan has taken a fight to the highest court for a shorter sentence.
Now, the Supreme Administrative Court has voiced its opinion and ruled that Eriksson should serve the 21-year, three-month sentence that the Swedish Prison and Probation Service added when he was transferred to Sweden.
This means that he can only be released on parole in August 2024.
Sentenced to eight years in Thai terror prisons
A heavy blow for the Swede, who has already spent eight years in Thai terror prisons like Bang Kwang, better known as Bangkok Hilton and Klom Prem, and expected to be released on parole in early summer 2022.
Kim Eriksson Sirawan has gone from being sentenced to death in Thailand almost ten years ago to having his sentence changed several times, and when he was transferred to Sweden in January 2019, the sentence for drug offenses in Thailand was set at 18 years.
The Swedish Prison and Probation Service also included the previous sentence of three years and three months in prison for, among other things, a felony weapons offense, from which Kim Eriksson fled when he moved to Thailand.
Kim Eriksson has opposed this because he has stated that in Sweden you cannot be sentenced to more than 18 years in prison when the punishment is applied to more than one crime.
Kim Eriksson was acquitted for the first time by the Court of Appeal
It was confirmed by the Court of Appeal, which overturned the decision of the Swedish Prison and Probation Service, but the Swedish Prison and Probation Service appealed and is now right.
“From section 25 of the law on the calculation of sentence time and more it follows that the terms of fixed-term prison sentences must be added together,” writes the Supreme Administrative Court.
“The law does not specify an upper limit for the length of the sentence. Nor does it appear from the preparatory work that any upper limit has been envisaged ”.
Kim Eriksson has also tried to be released immediately in Sweden. This is because the Swedish Prison and Probation Service, after he was allowed to serve the remainder of his sentence in Sweden, brought him here in January without having a valid identity document. Kim Eriksson claimed that he was therefore brought into the country illegally.
Received amnesty from the king – sent letters to Stefan Löfven
A few months after Kim Eriksson was transferred to a Swedish prison, the King of Thailand granted him amnesty and therefore requested the Ministry of Justice to reduce the sentence by a third and also wrote a letter to Prime Minister Stefan Löfven demanding that the sentence be shortened.
“The government is directly responsible for ensuring that my application is carried out correctly, in accordance with an agreement with Thailand and myself,” he wrote in the letter.
After Kim Eriksson escaped from prison in Sweden, it wasn’t long before police raided his home on the outskirts of Bangkok in the summer of 2010 and revealed a drug lab and 53 grams of methamphetamine in the garage.
He was sentenced to death in 2011, which was later converted to life in prison and was eventually reduced to 36 years and eight months in prison before being transferred to the Swedish prison.
After this, he was pardoned by the King of Thailand.
