David McMillan
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And they sent round people calling my name.
It was Daniel Westlake at the time.
I had an Australian passport in that name.
And somebody said it was like looking for a lost sheep.
Daniel, where are you?
You can come out, we won't hit you, don't worry.
I had an address and a place where supposedly a passport was waiting for me.
My Chinese friends, well actually one I'd met in prison, I'd given him a photograph and I didn't have a really good one and it came off my radio operator's license.
So it had to be enlarged and changed and everything like that.
And it had to go into a passport that was freshly stolen because...
It should belong to a tourist who'd just come in and hadn't overstayed his visa and all this stuff with the stamps and the stickers and the little form stuck into it.
So it was supposed to be in some guy's apartment in the toilet there behind a mirror, the toilet cubicle.
I'm getting there, and I've got the key to it, which has been sandwiched in a little...
wouldn't handle so that if I was caught and there was no key, because if they found a key they'd want to know who it is, maybe they'd torture me, I don't know what.
I've got to the apartment, I've got in there and I'm in the toilet feeling around, I'm thinking, what are the odds?
You meet some guy in jail for crying out loud and you give him this photograph and he's going to get you a passport and so I was really relieved to find the thing in there.
I wasn't too thrilled to bits when I took a look at it, it wasn't
The best work of art I've ever seen.
welcome to singapore ladies and gentlemen and to all singaporeans and residents of singapore
I found myself in a hotel room in Singapore.