‘I’m scared… the skin normally tears after three strokes’: Ex-Westminster public schoolboy caught dealing drugs in Singapore opens up
London born Ye Ming Yuen 29 h
The young man who appears on the TV monitor is speaking to us from inside Singapore’s notorious Changi jail.
He is sporting a prison regulation shaved haircut and a white T-shirt bearing his inmate number (L218032018) and name: Ye Ming Yuen.
Yuen is a convicted drug dealer.
Normally, the Mail would not travel half-way around the world to conduct an interview — via a special video link — with such an individual.
Yuen, 29, was born and raised in London where his parents still live. He must also be the first former pupil of £37,000-a-year Westminster School to find himself locked up in top-security Changi.
He has been ordered to serve 20 years after being convicted of supplying cannabis and methamphetamines (‘crystal meth’ or ‘ice’) to his friends.
Yet, this is not why Yuen is at the centre of a diplomatic row between the UK and Singapore, which traditionally have close ties, or why he agreed to speak to us.
