From ANDREW DRUMMONDin Luang Prabang, Northern LaosAugust 20 2010 Luang Prabang Hollywood star Jude Law and his lover Sienna Williams posed as backpackers in remote communist Northern Laos and pledged their love for each other in a ceremony conducted here by a village shaman.In a picture-book journey which ended north of Luang Prabang, the ancient […]
Blog/The opinions here are those of the author. He had the ticket and had booked his seat but just 24 hours before David Fletcher was due to be deported from Thailand – as a persona non grata having served a jail sentence in the UK for sexually abusing a minor – his trip to Blighty was […]
From ANDREW DRUMMONDBangkok, August 11 2010 This is the last known picture of retired business man Raymond Hind smiling happily as his Thai wife in a swirly shirt and 99% pure gold pendant cheekily makes a ‘V’ sign behind his head. Months later Hind, 68, from Cheshunt, Herts, who was terminally ill with throat cancer […]
Bangkok, Murder in Chiang Mai – Andrew Drummond Times 2 Cover story The death of a backpacker Tomorrow will be the 10th anniversary of the murder and rape of backpacker Kirsty Jones, aged 23, in the Aree Guesthouse in Chiang Mai. Even though Thai police, together with the help of Dyfed Powys Police, have the […]
August 9 2010ANDREW DRUMMOND, Bangkok,Tomorrow will be the 10th anniversary of the murder and rape of backpacker Kirsty Jones, aged 23, in the Aree Guesthouse in Chiang Mai. Even though Thai police, together with the help of Dyfed Powys Police, have the full DNA profile of her killer no progress was made in finding her killer, […]
ANDREW DRUMMOND HUA HIN, AUGUST 07 2010 (Updated Sept 05 2010) Gunshots in the night, a man screaming in pain floundering in a swimming pool, an armed police raid, murder threats, and some tasty and violent characters from the British crime scene. These are episodes from the continuing soap opera at a housing project for foreigners in […]
The Lersuang Family Tree – see letter Property Pundit British ‘off plan’ property kings Errol Salih and Selwyn Casey – the men who brought us England footballer Joe Cole and gave him a free condo in a non-existent project in Hua Hin have made a tactical withdrawler, have been dismissed from their property rental business, […]
The response to the death of Stuart O’Neill and the resulting flood of touching messages that followed have over the last two weeks turned around a really tragic incident into a celebration of the life of a great and funny friend. Now I am being brought back to earth with a bump by a flurry […]
From ANDREW DRUMMONDBangkok, July 3 2010British child protection police arrived in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh today to help surpervise an investigation into the activities of 66-yr-old David Fletcher, who ran a charity for children on a city garbage dump.Two officers from CEOP -the Child Exploitation and Online Protection centre- arrived in the capital and […]
This follows the case of Samantha Orobator, a Nigerian born Briton, locked up in jail in Laos for drugs trafficking.Samantha faced the death sentence but while in jail became pregant with the assistance of another prisoner Briton John Watson . Her case was taken up by the charity ‘Reprieve’ and she returned to Britain under a […]
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.