From Andrew DrummondBangkok, July 4 2011 More than ten years have passed and the sound and picture are fuzzy. But a video is now doing the rounds which a judge refused allowance to be shown in a Thai court. The video records the very odd arrest of a Briton on a drugs charge in Pattaya, Thailand. Lawyers for Kevin Quill, who […]
From Andrew Drummond,Bangkok July 3 2011A British businessman will learn this week if he is to go to jail in Vietnam at the behest of Irish billionaire millionaire Patrick McKillen – the owner of showcase property worldwide. Peter Laking, 60, from Midhurst, Sussex, will be flown from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi on Wednesday to hear […]
From Andrew DrummondJuly 2nd 2010 It went almost unnoticed but the decision last Sunday by a judge in the predominantly islamic state Terengganu state of Malaysia to sentence Shivaun Orton to just 14 months in jail has delighted not only her family and friends but also the top executive of a major US oil company.Shivaun Orton was […]
Not so many foreigners know this but recently in the Thai vernacular press and on television there were headline stories about how some American had kidnapped a child from outside a school in Bangkok and had used ‘criminal type’ figures to help him.The child’s mother and her new lover, a tuk-tuk driver, said that they were […]
From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok June 30 2011 Daily Mail Evening Standard Three young British men on a gap year trip together were killed outright in Thailand when their tourist coach was involved in a head on collision with another bus. A fourth teenager also travelling with the same group arrived back in London early today suffering from […]
A Briton who was robbed in a hotel in Bangkok says he was told by Thai police to claim on insurance as they were not going to investigate – despite the fact that the thief, a lady boy, was not only caught on CCTV but also left a copy of his ID with reception.Kevin M (name withheld) […]
From ANDREW DRUMMONDBangkok, June 19 2011 Two former British tennis champions are going to court over a £725,000 investment one made to the other in a multi-million pound project for a so called ‘Millionaires’ Row’ on the Thai holiday island of Phuket.Former British champion Greg Rusedski claimed he has been back-handed by former British champion […]
From ANDREW DRUMMONDBangkok, June 17 2011Adam Freeman – the son of Sydney underworld figure George Freeman – surrendered to Australian Federal Police officers in Bangkok today by arrangement.Freeman, who fled to Thailand, after being linked to a lab which produced 19.5 kg of ecstasy seized by police in Australia last December, handed himself in by prior […]
From ANDREW DRUMMOND, Bangkok June 13 2011The sister of a Briton, who was declared drowned in a shallow lake on Koh Samui, has expressed disappointment that a second post mortem has concluded her brother drowned and police will NOT now be continuing with a murder investigation.Eve Deary, 53, from Waverley, Surrey, said that she still […]
A couple who fled to safety in Bangkok after being banged up in the Philippines on adultery charges are to feature in ‘Locked Up Abroad’ on National Geographic Television this week.David Scott, from Swindon, Wilts, and Cynthia Reyes, from Manila, made their break for freedom after colleague Andy Chant and myself took up their case in […]
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.