Jack Lawrence

The head of an international drug trafficking business that spanned across multiple continents, a decade behind bars in Australia, relentlessly pursued by the US Drug Enforcement Agency, wanted by Interpol.

not to mention two death penalty sentences and the only Westerner on record to have successfully escaped Bangkok's Long Prem prison, also referred to as the Bangkok Hilton.

My name's Jack Lawrence.

Welcome to Wanted.

Or as David likes to put it... Earnestly desired, I like to think of it.

It's April 5th, 1956, in the West End of London.

John and Rosie Macmillan welcome into the world their new baby boy, who they name David.

David's mother, Rosie, was in fact Australian.

And as a result, David would make several trips back and forth between the two countries as a youngster.

We've actually got something in common because I was also born in the UK and emigrated to Australia.

You came over with your mother, I believe.

As for David's father, he says he really didn't have much of a relationship with him.

David's mother and father would separate when he was still very young, and he would again head back to Australia with his mother and sister and move to Melbourne.

He would attend Caulfield Grammar Private School in Melbourne's southeast until he was asked to find another school after what he says was an incident with his chemistry teacher who claimed that David had attempted to make a batch of LSD.

Some possible early warning signs of what was to come in David's life.

It was the 1970s in Australia and drug use was not particularly underground and so-called hard drugs were not really distinguished between anything else.

David says even from a young age, he knew that he was going to need control in life and to get control, he would need money.

And in fact, the law was something that was just there to be broken as he witnessed firsthand so-called respected people doing just that.

So how would David go about taking control?

How was he going to make his money?