THE FORMER PRINCE ANDREW AND THE SEX BAR OWNER IN THAILAND

‘He’s our King,’ says British sex trade boss in Thailand.

A British sex bar boss in Thailand, who is mired in an under-aged sex trafficking controversy, has declared the former Prince Andrew as the ‘Monger King’ of sex tourism, .

Bryan Flowers, 44,  an online newspaper boss and owner of the Night Wish Group, a chain of all-day bar-brothels in the Thai resort of Pattaya, has greeted the former Prince and friend of Jeffrey Epstein with the words: “Welcome. King Andrew – King of Mongers.”

Using a word for sexual predators from the Urban Dictionary he wrote: “Prince Andrew has been removed as Royal Prince for being exposed as a top tier monger. So we are naming him our King of mongers. People think that he has lost a great position, but our position is much higher.

“He f..ked up to 40 Thai girls in 4 days. Absolute legend and mongering God. Tax payers money well spent on poor single mothers. Doing gods charity work,”. he said quoting an article in the Bangkok Post..

He wrote his welcome to ‘King Andrew’ on  ‘Belts of Mongering,’ a website he set up devoted to single male tourists, using one of several internet aliases.

“Welcome to King Andrew – king of mongers1”

This was his reaction to newspaper reports that, while in Thailand, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has invited up to 40 sex workers back to his hotel..

On advice from local officials, Flowers had been trying to clean up his on line reputation deleting over 100 videos from You Tube, and asking Vloggers to delete their interviews with him.

And to rise above hoi polloi the 44-year-old former electrician from Coventry, had joined the Thai National Polo Club and created the Pattaya News, online newspaper group.

Jail sentences

His outburst came while he took extended leave from the resort of Pattaya, flying out just three days before his Thai wife and three junior members of his sex empire were sentenced to prison terms of three to 21 years.

They were accused of running an illegal prostutution business and multiple offences linked to under aged sex trafficking.

The controversy is over why he himself did not face charges over a 16-year-old who had been put to sex work in one of his Night Wish Group twenty plus bars in Pattaya Soi 6 – the traditionally cheaper production line end of the city’s red light trade with on-the-premises sex rooms.

These are potentially extremely damaging statements from a man who has been allowed to go on to create a series of online newspapers in Thailand – the Pattaya News, Bangkok News, and Phuket Express, from the profits of the tourism sex industry.

Night Wish liquidated

His Night Wish Group does not hold board meetings. With the exception of his Thai wife, Flowers controls the business with entirely foreign investors in FaceBook Messenger groups. Night Wish Group was liquidated as a company in Thailand in 2017. His wife Punnipa liases with local authorities and receives all the cash in her bank accounts, which. Flowers controls as well as her business emails.

The day to day business is controlled by Australian Scott Schulz. But his other main interest, together with another Australian called Robin Dey, both from Melbourne, is in Bitcoin scams. Dey is currently in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on a (DTV) Destination Thailand, also known as as a digital nomad visa.

Bitcoin scammers

Both Schulz and Dey ran the ‘New Dawn Fund’, ‘Lendefi’ and MDX Bitcoin scams. The New Dawn Fund was closed down by ASIC -the Australian Securities and Investment Commission.

Incentives to sex tourists

Belts of Mongering’ links to another site Flowers had created for sex-tourists called ‘Pattaya-Addicts,’ which offered the following. (caution:strong language)

‘Belts of Mongering’ offers a Black Belt in Mongering for sleeping with 1000 prostitutes without the competitor’s wife or partner finding out. Prostitution is illegal in Thailand.

Officials, especially local police have to be paid to turn a blind eye, but there is a limit to that.

They had claimed he was making that difficult, especially by promoting Thai his sex workers in Facebook and Telegram apps.

He has also had to take down his websites ‘Jizzflicker.com’- perhaps for obvious reasons - but it can still be found in archive.org.)

Warned about police raid

Flowers left Thailand in June last year three days before his wife Punippa Flowers and three employees were due for judgment in the sex trafficking the girl into prostitution.

The case was initially investigated by an American Ngo – The Exodus Road – who reported the matter to the Anti-Trafficking in Person Police (ATIP) in Bangkok who carried out a raid on the Night Wish Group Flirt Bar in Pattaya Soi 6.

Flowers told investors he was warned of the raid by local police and the girl was not in the bar and the sex rooms had been closed down when ATIP officers arrived. But according to the Night Wish Group policy her name and photo were promoted on the net, and she was found within hours.

Flowers then in a voicemail rant described the 16-year-old victim as ‘a f…g whore!’, who had slept with hundreds of men and who had used a fake ID to get a job. But no such evidence was offered at trial.

The three members of his Night Wish staff were jailed for 21 years for the serious charges relating to trafficking the teenager into prostitution.
They were Briton William Reece Bilton, 32, from Barrow-in-Furness, and cashiers Jaranya Keepair (Kwang) and Saifon Kanyanyiam.

But Punnipa Flowers, 37, was acquitted of the serious trafficking charges and instead merely found guilty of running an illegal sex business for which she was sentenced immediately to three years and was the only person to be given bail to appeal. She walked free from the court on the same day.

In her defence she said that she did not know that a 16-year-old had been employed. It was akin to a heroin trafficker claiming: ” I did not know it was drugs. I thought it was jewellery.”

Paid out £273,355 in bribes, claim

In a messenger post to investor turned whistleblower Adam Howell, Flowers said that he had paid out 11.5 million Thai baht (£273,355.00) in connection with the human trafficking charges. ’Down to corrupt police’, a ‘shit lawyer’ the ‘two lying (Thai) staff’.

It was not that he did not pay, it was the high amount and lack of quality of service that he was complaining about.

We cannot know if Flowers only paid for his wife’s acquittal on the most serious trafficking an under aged girl into prostitution charge, But she was the only person bailed to appeal. The optics are not good.’

He had even boasted in a YouTube video (now removed but saved with all other material by our legal team) how he paid to get a friend of his out of jail on drugs charges at a fraction of the cost, and then turned a profit acquiring the man’s car.

Further, prior to judgement and in a memo to all owner-investors Flowers said they should thank his team for getting them off human trafficking and other charges.

Brit bar staff flee

Prior to the arrests all Flowers’ bars in Pattaya Soi 6, were managed illegally by foreigners, mainly young Britons looking for a way to make a living in Thailand. All were operating on ‘education visas’ and without work permits which would not have been permitted. But when Bilton was arrested they had to fee or find another job, such as digital nomads, often Vlogging. Night Wish managers did not dress as in this advert below.

Below is an image of a typical British Soi 6 Night Wish bar manager circulated in forums in Pattaya

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ENTERTAINING – BUT THE BBC’S ‘THAILAND THE DARK SIDE’ HAD TO BRUSH OVER WHAT WAS REALLY GOING ON. BUT THEY KNEW.

One former bar manager in Pattaya Soi 6 was profiled in the BBC series ‘Thailand – The Dark Side’ presented by influencer Zara McDermott.

Mac, from Staffordshire, a YouTuber who runs the MacTV channel, replied when asked what was really going on in the bars: “There are laws and I need to protect myself, so I don’t get into trouble’. Mac has now bought his own bar. It’s in Soi 7 just along from Soi 6, where Flowers’ lieutenant Nick Dean, from Stoke-on-Trent, another Vlogger, is looking after six bars in a growing British sex empire.

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“Biggest rat ever!”

We cannot know if Flowers only paid for his wife’s acquittal on the most serious charges relating to trafficking an under aged girl into prostitution, But Punnipa was the only person bailed to appeal. The optics are not good.’

What is known from records and voice memos, is that Flowers set about cold-heartedly conspiring to put the Thai cashier called ‘Kwang’ into prison, while publicly defending the British manager Reece Bilton and Punnipa.

In internal Facebook messaging and voicemails which we obtained, Flowers admitted that he would not pay for the defence and bail of the cashier Kwang because he said she was the ‘biggest rat ever.’

This has been confirmed by Kwang’s relatives. Kwang was provided by the court with a lawyer, who did not even turn up on judgment day, and demanded fees to visit her in prison.

Kwang had been honest with ATIP (Anti-Trafficking in Persons Police) who raided the Night Wish bar ‘Flirt’ in 2023 showing them the upstairs rooms where the sex workers took tourists, even giving police the price list, naming the bosses Bryan and Punnipa Flowers.

Flowers and his wife had initially evaded prosecution as their names were not on the ownership document for the bar’s lease or on any of the licences. It was in the name of Punnipa’s brother, who had never even been to the bar.

Flowers had openly boasted in a Vlog that he kept his name off everything he owned because he did not want to go to jail.

But the police ruled she was the owner after they found that all the income, both electronic and cash, went to her back account – and the court agreed.

The story is not over. Convicts can get out of prison.  And while there are high profile arrests, the results of prosecutions and case result are rarely announced. And journalists in Thailand do not regularly cover the courts except in big political cases, and even then can be banned from taking notes.

However, when foreign Ngo’s get involved, it becomes more difficult for offenders to buy off police.

But in October last year Pattaya Police arrested a Dutchman Johannes Reijnaard for sex trafficking two boys aged 15, and 18, which was odd, because by all rights he should have been in jail.

The Khao Sod reported:

“A background check revealed troubling details about Reijnaard’s history. He was previously arrested by Thai police on human trafficking charges in late 2016, but was released due to insufficient evidence and subsequently deported from Thailand.

“However, investigators discovered that in 2017, Reijnaard allegedly paid bribes to officials and illegally re-entered Thailand through a natural border crossing in Sa Kaeo Province.

“He then returned to operating a human trafficking network in the Pattaya area, where he continued his illegal activities until his arrest by Department of Special Investigation (DSI) officers in this coordinated operation.” Khao Sod reported

The operation had been launched by the Destiny Rescue Foundation, the SCIENTIA Project, the Free a Girl Foundation from the Netherlands, with ‘support’ ‘from the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Thailand.

That must been embarrassing for the Royal Thai Police in Pattaya. But no enquiry is expected.

Flowers mass trolling and attack sites

Journalists and NGOs often find themselves under attack online when exposing foreigners involved in crime in Thailand.

In this case Bryan Flowers created 12 websites attacking ‘The Exodus Road’ and, posing as an investigative journalist, harassed members of ‘The Exodus Road’ at its base in Colorado Springs.

Flowers’ truth was that the foreign investigators were sleeping with prostitutes. They had paid one of his staff 100,000 Thai baht to employ an under-aged girl – quite ludicrous if given even a minute to consider how a foreigner could get away with such an action. He claimed the charity were paying police to prosecute etc,, while he was paying them not to.

He could not get to the girl because the Ngo had her locked up in a safe house, he claimed. In fact the girl was in the care of social services.

Flowers has also began trolling this site starting some 20 plus wordpress blogs with my name in the title.

In other cases he ran stories on websites he had already created (see below). These contained fake allegations that I was banned from Thailand for criminal offences etc.

He did the same with the Canadian investor turned whistleblower, Adam Howell, whom he claims was a meths addict and had been barred from his bars because of his behaviour.

But Flowers’ is trying to conceal an unsavoury digital footprint.

He has also circulated extremely flattering bios, written in the third person about himself as a high principled business entrepreneur in paid for self promotions on websites made to look like genuine newspapers (below)

Meanwhile Howell, from Saanichton, British Columbia, who claimed he had been cheated out of a US$460,000 investment in the Night Wish Group by Flowers has had to delay legal action due to Flowers’ absence.

Flowers has now returned on a tourst visa, his work permit having not been renewed, after first hanging around in Phnom Penh, Cambodia doing business and waiting for the all clear.

Despite hostilities erupting between Thailand and Cambodia and closure of the land border, ‘mongers’ can happily fly between the capitals Bangkok and Phnom Penh.

Flowers is due to testify in a civil case later this month.

To catch up on the current investigation read the Night Wish files. Meanwhile I am the new lead story in Flowers’ Belts of Mongeriing

Fact checking – dispelling the myths of the owner of ‘Ethical-Trolling.com

Readers who clicked on the ‘BeltsofMongering’ link will notice another blog in part of his ‘generational’ campaign against the author of this site under the heading Andrew Drummond V Pattaya-Addicts.com.

I probably do not need to address this but for the record: I am, of course, not a sex pat in Pattaya. I was a foreign correspondent accredited by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for over 27 years for variously the London Evening, Standard, Observer, and Times while living in Thailand in Bangkok. I avoided Pattaya, but had to travel there quite a few times at the request of home and foreign news desks in London.

I did not run away from multiple charges. The reasons for my departure were carried in the Sydney Morning Herald, Bangkok Post, and Guardian, and of course this website. I left Thailand quite legally, as Flowers’ knows because he published my passport in one of his attack sites.

When I left there were two outstanding libel cases which I did not attend. Those cases were initiated by Drew Walter Noyes and Bryan Goudie. One of the cases was withdrawn. But in any ccase ut these characters were respectively jailed for two and three years for extortion and fraud.

Drew Noyes, shown below with his Thai wife in his arrest photo was the owner of the Pattaya Times.

Goudie, aka Goldie, claimed to be a British barrister. But he was actually a notorious swindler and the subject of the documentary ‘Bryan Goldie – Scottish Swindler’ based on my investigation for the Crime and Investigation Channel.

Both had fled Thailand while on bail appealing their convictions. Goldie has since been exposed by a Scottish newspaper for a fraud there, and a Swiss gentlement has contacted this site with reference to a jewellery fraud/theft. He has asked for no publicity.

I may well have had four accounts on Pattatya-Addicts. I had been watching this site for journalistic purposes for quite a while, quite rightly as it turned out. A private ‘members only’ section was totally insulting to Thai women and indecent in nature.

I don’t live alone but live with my children and do not accept payment for investigations, except from media organisations.

Publishing a photo from my Facebook page of myself with a respectable Thai lady, Flowers writes in the caption I have been mongering in Cambodia since I was banned from Thailand 15 years ago. That photograph was taken in Cambodia when I was flown there last year for a Netflix shoot about Gary Glitter. I have never been banned from Thailand. I was in Cambodia all of four days and did not even have time to visit old friends in Phnom Penh, unfortunately.

Flowers further claims that I have attributed to him things written by other writers. I can assure readers I can prove all the statements attributed to him are by him, though, of course, he will have regretted saying many things. He encourages readers of BeltsofMongering to write to me at an email given as I have apparently called them ‘all evil monsters’. I have not used that expression, But then again nobody has written to complain.

Clarification

COMING SOON: THE AUSTRALIAN CONNECTION – WHEN SEX TRAFFICKERS UNITE