Barlow and Chambers execution

The Barlow and Chambers execution was the hanging in 1986 by Malaysia of two Westerners, Kevin John Barlow (Australian and British) and Brian Geoffrey Shergold Chambers (Australian) of Perth, Western Australia, for the drug trafficking of 141.9 g of heroin.

The two men became the first Westerners to be executed under Malaysia's new tougher laws for drug offences that prescribe death for anyone convicted of having over 15 grams of heroin. Barlow was born in the UK in Stoke-on-Trent and held dual British and Australian nationalities. Barlow's family made appeals to UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to make a protest about the impending execution, and Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Bill Hayden made an appeal for clemency to the Malaysian government. The executions caused public outcry and strained political relations between Australia and Malaysia at the time.

Background

Between early 1981 and the end of 1983 Chambers had made at least twelve trips abroad to transport heroin to Australia. In 1980 Chambers imported heroin to Australia using body packing techniques: Chambers placed the drugs in his anus. The rest of the load was swallowed. He used the same technique in 1981 when, on transit in Singapore, customs officers detected Chambers' two vials of personal-use heroin in his jacket pocket. He was released after bribing officers. Chambers and his then girlfriend, Susan Cheryl Jacobsen, decided to move to Melbourne to escape Perth's organised crime scene. Driving intoxicated near Penong, South Australia, Chambers crashed the vehicle. Chambers was not seriously injured; however, Jacobsen received severe injuries. Jacobsen spent several days in a coma before dying of her injuries on 20 May 1983.

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Kevin Barlow (disambiguation)

Kevin Barlow may refer to:

Kevin Barlow, executed British-Australian drugs smuggler, see Barlow and Chambers execution

J. Kevin Barlow, AIDS activist

Kevan Barlow (born 1979), American footballer

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'Kevin Barlow' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Manners of Dying (2004)

Actors: Yves Charbonney (actor), Ron Devost (actor), Roy Dupuis (actor), Gregory Hlady (actor), Serge Houde (actor), Burt Jardin (actor), John Maclaren (actor), Alexandre Makombo (actor), Kevin McCoy (actor), Tony Robinow (actor), Ken Slade (actor), Claude Vallières (actor), Vlasta Vrana (actor), Christopher James Yarwood (actor), Cheryl Rimmer (actress),

Plot: Kevin Barlow will die on schedule and according to regulations. Harry Parlington, director of the Cantos execution facility, intends to make sure of it. However Barlow chooses to go, be it calmly or fighting violently to the end, Parlington feels confident that he and his team can deal with the situation. When Barlow makes a baffling and unusual final request, a strange duel ensues between the condemned man and the prison director. In this struggle there can be no winner or loser, only two men faced with doubts and difficult choices to make. The iron grip Parlington usually maintains on the execution procedure begins to slip as the final hours become a maze of manners of dying.

Keywords: battle-of-wits, death-penalty, death-row, execution, multiple-storyline
Genres: Drama,

Dadah Is Death (1988)

Actors: Shapoor Batliwalla (actor), David Bookalil (actor), David Bracks (actor), Clive Carlin (actor), Robert Davis (actor), David Field (actor), Paul Griffiths (actor), Barry Henry (actor), John Hirt (actor), Hugh Keays-Byrne (actor), Aldo King (actor), Kym Lynch (actor), Gandhi MacIntyre (actor), Edgar Metcalfe (actor), Victor Banerjee (actor),

Plot: On 9th of November 1983 two Australians, Kevin Barlow and Geoff Chambers were arrested at Penang Airport in Malaysia carrying 179 grams of Heroin. A crime which in Malaysia carries a mandatory sentence of death... Dadah Is Death (A Long Way From Home) is the true story of Barbara Barlow's desperate attempt to save her son from the Hangmans rope - a courageous effort that involved impassioned pleas to President Reagan, The British Prime Minister, and even the Pope. By July 1986 this international struggle had seemed to reach a hopeless conclusion and all that was left was a mother's love for her son.

Keywords: based-on-true-story, drugs
Genres: Drama,