From ANDREW DRUMMOND,Sunday MailBangkok, September 26 2010Allan Hyne with nephew David, Thai wife Dtim and DorothyA Scots engineer who was given up for dead by his son and daughter after being paralysed and sent into a coma by an oriental bug has uttered his first words in Bangkok after 15 months.And stubborn and spirited Allan Hyne […]
I was doing a bit of trawling yesterday investigating ‘a well-known fact’ among the lower echelons of British society in Thailand that I am the source of all the misfortune that befalls them from Britain’s tabloid press. So I went to the SUN and searched my name and lo and behold nothing. That can’t be […]
From ANDREW DRUMMOND,Bangkok, September 22 2010Evening StandardMurdered British merchant navy captain wanted protection – Daily TelegraphA British merchant navy captain who was gunned down in the Philippines had applied to join a witness protection programme after being caught in an arms smuggling operation.Bruce Anthony Jones, 50, who led a wealthy expatriate life-style with his Filipina […]
From ANDREW DRUMMOND, Bangkok,September 20 2010Link to CBC CalgaryA Thai policeman who gunned down two Canadian backpackers in northern Thailand has killed again. Police Sergeant Uthai Dechawiwat, 39,(left) who killed 25-yr-old backpacker Leo Del Pinto and seriously injured his companion Carly Reisig, has now been accused of clubbing his pregnant teenage bride to death. The […]
FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND September 7th 2010 A British man who owns a South Philippines beach resort was shot dead in front of his wife by thieves. Anthony Nicholas, 64 – gunned down in the Philippines Anthony Nicholas, 64, died in a hail of bullets when he refused to stop his motorised tricycle for armed men. […]
From ANDREW DRUMMOND,Bangkok, September 4 2010ITV London Tonight Link to Daily Mail and video Update: Sept 7 2010 – All of this money has now been raisedA mystery benefactor and the public have raised the equivalent of £43,000 to save the life of a young Briton, who was involved in a horrific motorcycle crash in Thailand, and […]
From Andrew Drummond, BangkokSaturday September 4 2010 British police are to withdraw charges against a Scotsman wanted in Thailand on two charges of rape after discovering they can no longer put together a case against him.Police in Northumbria have admitted that now ten years on they can no longer present sufficient evidence against George Hoolahan, […]
Andrew Drummond is a British independent journalist and occasional television documentary maker. He is a former Fleet Street, London, journalist having worked at the Evening Standard, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, News of the World, Observer and The Times.