A British backpacker faces jail in Thailand after allegedly picking up a stranger’s phone by mistake.
Rory McColl, 37, flew into Bangkok on March 9 for a 12-day trip but was arrested on his first night out after bar staff alerted police.
His parents say the father-of-one spent two nights in a concrete cell before being released on bail, but has since been stranded in the country after his passport was confiscated.
He has now spent seven weeks living in a hotel in Pattaya, a beach resort around 90 miles south east of Bangkok, as he awaits a court hearing on April 28.
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