BUT SENTENCE SUSPENDED BECAUSE SHE HAD BEEN A GOOD GIRL (before Drew) The Secretary of the Lions Club of Bangkok (310D Silom) and former hostess at the Buffalo Bar in Pattaya has been given a one year prison sentence and fined 10,000 Thai baht by Pattaya Court for libeling an assistant to foreign correspondent Andrew […]
BUT IN CRIMINAL CASE HE PULLS THE ‘I PICKED WRONG THAI WOMAN’ DEFENCE Fake barrister Brian Goudie has been given 15 days to pay an American woman or face bankruptcy and deportation. The Bankruptcy Court has ruled that Goudie, from Falkirk, Scotland, should pay 7.8 million Thai baht to Barbara Fanelli Miller, whose son Gregory […]
‘I didn’t think checking the CCTV of the boats was relevant – nor was it worth checking the murder weapon’ I have been following the trial of the two young Burmese on Koh Samui and have been totally absorbed. It seems now reading the international press that few people outside Thailand believe in Thai justice […]
HUMAN RIGHTS COMEDY IN THAILAND CONTINUES – Human Rights Watch is not surprisingly up in arms against the proposed constitution of the Thai National Human Rights Commission, one of which is a notorious supporter of the lèse majesté laws under which anybody can be locked up for saying something which somebody not the King believes is […]
LEFT HAND DOWN A BIT! ITS THE THAI NAVY LARK The credibility of Thailand took another blow today as the Guardian newspaper followed up on its report last year on slavery in the Thai fishing industry making it quite clear, if we were in any doubt, that officials were complicit in the trafficking of Rohingya […]
COMING SOON A BOILER ROOM GUIDE TO COMPANY NOMINEES Apologies for a break in transmissions here but several long term enquiries are coming to a head; I am still in a learning curve with regards to the new U.K. -and then, of course, I have been meeting up with old colleagues while raising kids 24/7. […]
‘The pile of injustice in Thailand and the FBI from America is way too high for a 78 year old lady to cope with.’ I have just received a letter from the 78-year-old mother of Greg Miller, the American who died while in custody awaiting an appeal on child sexual abuse charges. That Greg […]
SHE TRIED TO SAVE HER SON FROM CROOKS AND INJUSTICE – BUT HE DIED THROUGH LACK OF CARE IN THE THAI JUSTICE SYSTEM An American mother, aged 77, who was allegedly swindled out of almost US$300,000 by a fake British lawyer in Pattaya who promised to defend her son Greg Miller on child sexual abuse […]
BROTHER-IN-LAW ‘BROKE KNEE CAPS FOR THE MAFIA’ The offer of a US$5000 reward this week for information about the death of American serviceman and Iraq veteran Josh Devine in the Andaman Sea in April comes as the family back home fails to get any closure on the mystery. Joshua Devine, 36, a ‘Soldier of the […]
Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary (CONTD) While I have touched on the subject of human rights in China Raymond, Raymond Chang the Chinese American student who is singing about US Chinese détente might be better singing about something closer to home and more immediate – that is the deportation from Thailand over 100 Uyghurs last week […]
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.