Suzana Thayer of Barrie became an 'unwitting drug mule' and spent nine months in prison before being suddenly released with no explanation
Barrie resident Suzana Thayer tells the story of her detainment in a Chinese prison and the twist in the story around her sudden and unexpected release in May after she was jailed in Hong Kong in September 2022 for allegedly smuggling cocaine into the country through the Hong Kong airport.
Caywood purchased her ticket, hotel and meals while she was away, but the two never actually met at any point. In the end, Suzana spent 274 days, almost nine months, before being released on May 27, 2023, with no explanation as to why. Medication she required for heart problems — such as pills to treat blood pressure and cholesterol — as well as pain pills she needed, were withheld.“At one point when they were interrogating me, just before they took me to a hospital, I looked at the interrogator and said ‘this is torture’. He literally smiled at me and said ‘yes it is.’
“When the head madam came by, and every time the madam comes by you have to stand at attention and be fully garbed in your prison uniform. I was sitting in my underwear and a T-shirt, and I was sitting on the bed when she next to me, she goes ‘Get up! Stand at attention!’ “I did the university law course for one of the girls in prison because she couldn’t read English and she didn’t know how to write properly, so she asked me to do the course for her,” Suzana says. “I wanted to do it only because I wanted to know about their law.
Suzana says she spoke with several fellow inmates about their situation, and described one story of a woman who is serving 20 years in prison. That woman was asked by her boyfriend to bring a book to Hong Kong and the book contained hidden drugs. 'She is really, really out' Back home in Barrie, her daughter, Angela Thayer, tells BarrieToday that at the time Barrie police wrote a letter to the court in Hong Kong, saying this is what a romance scam is, and included her statements to police, in an attempt to make clear it was a scam.
“I was at the court all day,” she says. “All they kept talking about was the buttons and how many there were.” Looking back on the ordeal, Suzana reflects on the people and organizations that helped make her release happen.
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