The Police Judicial prison on the outskirts of Phnom Penh was once a camp used by the Khmer Rouge to interrogate, torture and ultimately murder its victims.
Now, its decaying walls and overcrowded conditions present a new kind of hell for inmates.
This is where Yoshe Ann Taylor has spent the past three years. The 44-year-old Australian woman was convicted of drug smuggling in 2013 after being caught trying to leave the Cambodian capital with two kilograms of heroin concealed in her luggage.
Taylor’s incarceration was based on information provided to Cambodian authorities by the Australian Federal Police. Her sentence is 23 years, enough to miss the entire childhoods of her young son and daughter, who now live without her in their Queensland home even though Australian authorities have folders of evidence that suggest she is innocent.
A joint investigation by Fairfax Media and SBS’s The Feed can now reveal that Taylor was the victim of an internet dating scam run by an international drug smuggling syndicate.
The syndicate which entrapped her, along with other Australian women, continues to operate, apparently unrestricted, from inside the Cambodian prison system. It continues to target Australian women with the intention of turning them into unwitting drug mules.
In 2013, Yoshe Taylor was a single mother living on an isolated property in Queensland. She had recently quit her job as a kindergarten teacher and was working part-time as a tutor while home-schooling her own two children, aged 9 and 14. She dreamed of building a new career in the arts.
Like millions of others, she went online in search of companionship. There she came across a man who offered even more - not just charm, sex appeal and romance, but the possibility of a job in an arts and crafts business.
He went by the name Precious Max, and claimed he was a successful South African businessman working in Cambodia at the so-called Khmer Arts and Crafts business.
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