Aussie DJ loses appeal to reduce life sentence in Thailand after being caught with ecstasy

Shackled and wearing Thai prison clothing, Mastroianni, had an appeal to have his sentence reduced

A Melbourne DJ who was gotten with 61 delight pills in Thailand has disregard to have his twofold life accommodating office sentence diminished coming about to losing a court appeal.Jake Mastroianni, 26, was gotten in the Thai coastline resort of Pattay close to 28-year-old Briton Lance Whitmore in August 2014.The two men were gotten for obligation in regards to pills, with Whitmore censured for having 200 pills. 

Whitmore, a past British trooper, got a 50 year jail term coming about to admitting to the charges. 

Not in the slightest degree like the Englishman, Mastroianni declined to surrender and got a twofold life sentence.On Tuesday Mastroianni and Whitmore, shackled and wearing Thai medicinal office bits of clothing, had an area have their sentences reduced yet it was rejected by a Thai criminal court. 

Both men are being held at Bangkok's top security Klong Prem jail, which has a reputation for rude living conditionsMastroianni's Bangkok-based legitimate consultant, Nathan Feeney said it was appalling in light of the course that there was lack of protection concerning paying little respect to whether the joy he was charged over had a spot with him. 

"Jake was not having the drugs, that is the essential part," Mr Feeney said. 

Mastroianni's honest to goodness instructor said police were given information and struck his sweetheart's space and Mastroianni had happened to be there. 

Mr Feeney ensured his client was given poor honest to goodness claim by past true blue aides when he was at first gotten, which indicated him to such a high sentence. 

Mastroianni's genuine benefactor is purportedly endeavoring to get the DJ traded to an Australian prison, ABC reported. 

"We're at present considering all decisions yet slanting towards destroying the prisoner trade to Australia," Mr Feeney said.The Aussie DJ has starting now served two years and it is trusted prisoners must serve an eight years before they can be traded. 

Mastroianni, an unmistakable DJ in Melbourne before coming to Thailand, had in like path worked at Thailand's acclaimed "full moon" party on Koh Phangan in the Gulf of Thailand. 

Known by a stage name "Misuse", Mastroianni had moreover worked at the Sapphire Club in Pattaya, 150 kilometers southeast from Bangkok, where he appeared in August 2014, as showed up by the Club's Facebook page. 

Earlier, Jeffery Stevens, a legitimate educator at Thailand Bail, tending to both men, told The Guardian, they had believed the court would diminish the enough genuine sentences. 

"We've done all that we can," Stevens said. 

"At the day's end, Lance fought dependable. We were not fighting the way that he was shaky." 

An administrator from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) told AAP it was giving consular help to an Australian man kept in Thailand. 

As showed up by DFAT reports there are 15 Australian prisoners held in Thailand, eight of whom face accommodating office terms for pharmaceutical related offenses. 

Reports said Mastroianni could meet all essentials for a remedial office trade application to Australia in six years.