A SWEDISH VIEW OF THAI JUSTICE Ringvall and Thai girlfriend A journalist on a Sweden’s biggest newspaper Aftonbladet has just described one of the ugliest days in court he has ever seen. He was actually talking about a suburban court in Stockholm, Sweden but the case was one of murder and it happened in Pattaya. […]
Thailand’s military led government has issued a summons against a group of university professors claiming their meeting to discuss freedom of knowledge in education was against the law. The group in Thailand’s northern capital were, according to the government, in breach of an NCPO order banning political gatherings of more then five. The Government may […]
BUT ‘SEE YOU SOON’ WRITES SCAMMER TO THAI COP AS HE FACES JAIL OR ARREST WARRANT Now skulking in Wilmington, North Carolina, Drew Walter Noyes, the infamous former publisher of the now defunct Pattaya Times newspaper has today through his lawyers withdrawn a second case he brought against Kanokrat Nimsamoot Booth – as a result […]
LA LAW? LAW AND ORDER? NO ITS ‘SERIAL SWINDLERS’ IS IT IN HIS GROIN OR IN HIS SIDE – FAKE LAWYERS AFGHANISTAN WAR WOUND? In this video ‘Brian Goldie makes his television debut. An investigation team put the thread of Goldie’s life of extortion together from Scotland to Australia to Thailand where he is known […]
CAN’T BLAME THE VICTIM? BLAME IT ON YOUR BEST FRIEND. This week there have been more skullduggeries in the case of the Chinese-American millionaire and the young Australian former pupil of the New International School of Bangkok. This case as we have reported runs in the typical Thai genre of justice – putting the innocent […]
A former director of the small British financial company TBO, 65 per cent owned by former Ukip member of the European Parliament Godfrey Bloom – once described as one of ‘Britain’s national embarrassment’ – has been operating in Thailand as an unregistered independent financial advisor. Christopher Tressider, appears to have the left the UK since […]
SEAN TINSLEY WALKS AGAIN Friends and relatives of Adam Pickles the Head of English at an international school outside Pattaya on Thailand’s eastern seaboard have reacted with fury to the release of his convicted assailant on bail to appeal to Thailand’s Supreme Court. Though it was inevitable that Sean Tinsley, who operated a Visa agency […]
FAKE LAWYER AND KEY BAR BOSS PREPARES HIS BRIEFS Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary Brian Goudie, who re-invented himself in Thailand as a barrister and former officer in the Royal Marines, and who has since been convicted of using his cover to clean out a 78-year-old woman out of close on US$300,000 reckons he has mastered […]
‘Reporters without Borders today publishes a scathing attack by Thailand’s military leader Prayuth Chan-Ocha whom the report describes as an ‘eccentric megalomaniac’. Led by Gen. Prayuth Chan-o-cha, the Thai junta has been persecuting the media for the past 18 months, imposing a reign of terror that has included interrogations, arbitrary arrests, a spate of prosecutions […]
WHAT OFFICIAL ENQUIRY? THEY’VE ALL BEEN CREMATED! Thai Lawyers for Human Rights has called for an independent enquiry into the deaths of people who died in a military detention facility – and the closure of the facility forthwith. This follows the deaths firstly of Police Major Prakrom Warunprapa and secondly of Suyriyan Sucharitpolwong, better known […]
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.