‘I’VE JUST MADE A MILLION SO ‘F#CK YOU!’ Brian Goudie, the fake British barrister currently on trial for posing as a lawyer to cheat a 76-year-old American woman out of 7.8 million baht, defiantly claimed last night that she would get ‘f@#K All!’ Goudie, formerly known as Brian Goldie, who evaded a Scottish arrest warrant […]
Wow. It has been a hectic month as I have been doing a little touring with my children before heading back to the U.K. They do not really understand what is happening. We are sort of on an adventure, some of which I guess could make a story by itself. But the last few days […]
FROM THE ‘JAGGIE THISTLE TO THE WIG AND PEN?’ Flying Sporran’s Diary First picture of Goude in Thailand, outside his personal collection Brian Goudie, 48, by now probably Thailand’s most famous fake barrister is back home in premises on the eastern seaboard formerly known as the lair of Ulster drugs trafficker Jimmy ‘Doc’ Halliday. I […]
BUT PARENTS OF VICTIM HAVE DOUBTS A 23-year-old Briton who allegedly pushed his pal of a balcony off a Bangkok apartment to his death in June 2013 has been acquitted of a murder charge but fined the equivalent of £30 on minor drugs charges, at Bangkok Criminal court. James Anthony Durnan walked free from the […]
BANGKOK BOILER ROOM KING WORTH US$150 MILLION A story in the South China Morning Post yesterday may give a further clue to readers why I am not in Thailand today, or specifically where the threats come from. From an initial investigation by Drummondfor ‘The Times’ Written by colleague Benjamin Robertson a journalist colleague and financial writer […]
The Flying Sporran’s Thai Country Diary Two second rate fraudsters seem annoyed at the fact that that journalist Andrew Drummond the author of this site has left Thailand claiming he has breached bail and they will pursue him all the way to the white cliffs of Dover and beyond to seek retribution. Brian Goudie, our […]
British journalist Andrew Drummond has quit Thailand after 25 years covering Southeast Asia from the Thai capital Bangkok. The primary reasons were a direct threat to the safety of himself and his three children from foreign criminals in Thailand working in liaison with the Thai Police and Thailand’s Crime Computer Crime Act, which he […]
SCOT FREE! Lumsden The Supreme Court has overruled an Appeal Court Judgment in favour of British journalist Andrew Drummond, which was described as ‘demonstrating a fundamental respect for investigative journalism in Thailand’. In reversing the decision the Supreme Court stated the Drummond under Section 328 of the criminal code had libeled James Lumsden a former […]
THAILAND’S MILITARY HONOUR GUARD FOR PATTAYA BLACKMAILERS A sign above a supermarket till in Pattaya harks back to happier times for would-be newspaper magnate Drew Walter Noyes. Even though the Pattaya Times is no more. here is a reminder of a newspaper so unique in its structure and content that it should at least be […]
BANGKOK AIRPORT! COMING SOON ON BBC – WITH THE OBLIGATORY LADYBOY It had to happen, There’s been a documentary by British television of the major airports in Britain. Then there have been documentary series on places like Dubai and more…. How does this translate in Thailand? Just wait. As the military asks citizens to […]
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.