ABC Radio and TV foreign correspondent Peter Lloyd has been arrested in Singapore for posession of drugs.

Lloyd was scheduled to return home from his India posting to front the new ABC2 breakfast tv show with Virginia Trioli, but instead has found himself in gaol in Singapore, a country with harsh penalties for drug trafficing.

Lloyd has been charged with possessing and trafficing in drugs and faces prison and/or being caned under singapore laws.

Ironically Lloyd has reported extensively on drug arrests in that country.

Peter Lloyd recently split from his wife and came out as being gay. He was on leave when he was arrested.

Peter Lloyd was appointed to the ABC’s South Asia bureau in mid-2002. From 2002 to mid 2006 he was based in Bangkok. His reports on the Bali bombings and later the Tsunami disaster earned several Walkely Award nominations.

A working journalist since 1985, Peter has reported for Australian audiences from the UK, Europe, Africa and the United States.

He joined the ABC in 1988, working in the Sydney television newsroom for three years before moving to Britain to work for the BBC and British Sky News.

On his return, Peter spent a decade in commercial television news and current affairs in various roles. In 2000, he returned to the ABC, taking up a senior reporting role with television news and later with the national radio current affairs programs AM, The World Today and PM.