FLYING SPORRAN’S DIARY British citizens who are not enamoured with the help they get from the British Embassy in Bangkok will not be surprised to read today that the British government makes £56 million a year just by keeping people on hold on the telephone. I laughed my socks off when I read today’s Daily […]
NOYES PRODUCES THE ‘MICHAEL JACKSON’ DEFENCE IN EXTORTION TRIAL.- David Hanks at the clinic David Hanks, the former owner of Masquerades Brothel in Melbourne, is being used by controversial American Drew Noyes, as his ‘get out’ from a charge of conspiring to extort a beauty clinic in Pattaya out of millions of Thai baht. In […]
WHICH WITCH HUNT WILL WIN! In the latest episode in the living drama that is the Phnom Penh Paedophile NGO soap opera, it appears NGOs may have been have been grassing each other up as they face just one scandal after another. First there was the SISHA financial scandal. Then came the Somaly Man allegations. […]
Wyn Ellis calls on Attorney General to drop Supreme Court appeal Supachai At an FCCT panel discussion on Thailand’s Criminal Libel law yesterday, Dr Wyn Ellis called on the Attorney General to deny a request from Dusit District Prosecutors to file a Supreme Court appeal against his acquittal on a charge of defamation. Dr Ellis […]
(Pic: ‘The truth is the truth’) ‘The Truth Is The Truth’ – says accused man. Dutch television has been screening a recent video of the alleged ‘Evil Man of Krabi’ denying he had anything to the brutal rape attack on a 19-year-old Dutch model in Ao Nang on her 19th birthday. The clip below would […]
While British journalist Andrew Drummond was making his presentation about foreign crooks using abusing Thailand’s Computer Crime Act last night – two more cases against him looked like they might be collapsing in Pattaya. Brian Goudie, the fake barrister and former Royal Marine officer, had left it to David Hanks, the former owner of Masquerades […]
BRITISH JOURNALIST DESCRIBES COMPUTER CRIME ACT AS ‘CROOKS CHARTER’ (Picture: Andrew Drummond on the FCCT panel with Dr. Ellis, Supinya Klangnarong and David Streckfuss (off picture) Controversial American Drew Noyes, a self-appointed expert on Thai libel law, was to invited speak at the Foreign Correspondent’s Club after claims that Thailand’s Computer Crime Act was widely […]
DON’T SHOW ‘MEN IN SUITS’! -FCCT TOLD Fake lawyer Brian Goudie has issued his own ‘cease and desist’ order from Koh Samui to stop the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand showing the film ‘Influential People and Men In Suits’ before a panel discussion at the club tonight. FCCT officials are taking legal advice but they […]
PATTAYA TODAY – IT’S A HARD SLOG Flying Sporran’s Mid-Week Diary I love this report sent to me from the Pattaya Today newspaper – one of the clean English language newspapers in the resort of Pattaya. The newspaper reported the most recent dismissals of libel and computer crime act cases brought against me and then […]
MULTI-NATIONALS WELCOME! If you are concerned that the days when Thailand’s leaders and anyone with stocks of ready cash can escape jail in this country are coming to an end; or if you are worried that your work force’s pay demands will cut into your profits – then relax. This story is for you. If […]
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.