– BEST FOR NEWS – Just to keep everyone up to date. I am sure there is a way I can get the viewer count to show again. But in the meantime the good news is that this site is soaring. Soaring that is for a news investigation site which does not pretend to be […]
WHAT HAPPENED TO EXTORTION CASE? – ASK POLICE A planned scoop by Drew Noyes to discredit the ‘Flying Sporran’ backfired on him yesterday when he ended up facing criminal libel charges from a Thai national. Drew Noyes exclusive picture of Kanokrat and myself at Pattaya Police Station yesterday. Please share! He said. Happy to oblige […]
IS THIS HER WALKING HAND IN HAND WITH HER RAPIST? Police in Krabi today issued a picture of the Dutch girl who reported that she was raped in Krabi last July which appears to show her walking hand in hand with her attacker. And they showed a further picture of the 19-year-old birthday girl, her […]
‘IT PROBABLY CANNOT BE CONSIDERED RAPE BECAUSE THE WOMAN HAD DINNER WITH THE SUSPECT’ Is taking a Thai woman out to dinner essentially a request for sex and is that the expected conclusion? I put this question to a young Thai woman today and I am think I am right when she answered ‘Yes’. Now […]
IT’S NOT RAPE IF SHE ‘HAD DINNER WITH A THAI MAN’? – (Updated 20.20) Clumsy attempts to mend Thailand’s image, after a video about the rape of a 19-year-old Dutch model in the Thai Province of Krabi went viral on the internet, looked set to backfire today. This follows a statement by Tourism Minister Chumphol […]
‘I AM DEFENDING MY DAUGHTER. WHY WOULD A PARENT SEND HIS CHILDREN TO THAILAND IF MEN LIKE THIS CAN ROAM FREE?’ The Dutch father , who composed a song called ‘Evil Man in Krabi’about a Thai tourist guide who charged with brutally attacking and raping his daughter, said today that he was willing to go […]
RAPE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST PRIZE WINNER AT PATTAYA ‘SUCCESS ACADEMY’. From Andrew Drummond Bangkok. Police in Britain have arrested the chauffeur and fixer of former British DJ and TV presenter Jimmy Savile on his return from Thailand. Ray Teret, 71, was arrested by Greater Manchester Police at a house in Altrincham. Manchester Police’s Serious Sexual Offences […]
NASA OFFICIAL REMINDS A HACK JUST HOW GOOD THAILAND CAN BE. Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary. Mae Hong Son This week the diary is taking another direction. I have been running around in northern Thailand for a week to find I have been gagged. There is no story at the request of Scotland Yard but the good thing […]
British Law Just Isn’t British Law A lawyer running a firm called British Law in Pattaya was actually struck off the law list in Britain for failing to properly represent one of his clients. Kevin Harper, who formerly worked at Josephs Solicitors in Blackburn, Lancashire, was struck off in 2009 in case number 9816 2007 […]
Apologies to readers. I am a but out of the loop at the moment. Am currently in Chiang Rai and heading for a village on the Burmese border on a breaking story. Well, it will be if I actually get to break it. Meanwhile I am planning to subject ‘my photographer’ (He hates it when […]
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.