FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND, BANGKOK, January 27 2011 A Thai policeman who murdered his 18-yr-old bride two weeks after their wedding has been sentenced to 25 years after pleading guilty at Pai Provincial Court. Sergeant Uthai Dechawiwat had a life sentence reduced in half after he pleaded guilty. He admitted clubbing his pregnant wife to death […]
The rather xenophobic ‘Bangkok Post’ is running with an article today complaining that elderly foreign pensioners, mainly Brits, are being looked after in hospitals in Phuket despite the fact that they have no cash to pay for their treatment.Some 337 foreigners ‘mostly Brits’ were treated in Vachira Hospital last year. But only 17 were penniless […]
FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND BANGKOK JANUARY 19 2011 British pensioners in Thailand have started a murder fund after a court released a Thai wife who allegedly commissioned the death of her London husband and then began to milk his bank accounts. Raymond Hind with his wife Fon In Hua Hin, 200 miles south west of Bangkok, […]
From ANDREW DRUMMOND, Bangkok,January 13 2011 British Embassy officials in Thailand have assisted in the ‘escape’ from Thailand of a 23-yr-old woman from Manchester who was reportedly involved in a horrific gang-rape on the resort island of Phuket. The woman claimed she was gang raped for two hours by a group of Swedes and Thais […]
ANDREW DRUMMOND January 13 2011 A 31-yr-old property heiress attending a Thai ‘Celebrity Rehab’ clinic is reported to have fled after being sexually assaulted on New Year’s Day by the clinic’s gardener. And in another incident there was a stand-off between staff of two Thai Celebrity ‘Rehab’ clinics after a woman patient asked to be transferred […]
From ANDREW DRUMMONDBangkok January 11 2010 Thailand’s Department of Corrections have assured the families of a young couple murdered by Police Sergeant Somchai Wisetsingh in Kanchanaburi that the Sergeant is still behind locked doors in Khaobin ‘Supermax’ prison in Ratchaburi province. The move follows persistent rumours on internet forums in Thailand that Sergeant Wisetsingh has […]
Briton Shivaun Orton faces death in Malaysia for drugs trafficking. But was she a trafficker or a victim? And will she be able to convince authorities she had no choice? A comment by Andrew Drummond. Times have changed in the execution business. In the old days I guess one took along one’s knitting and applauded as […]
FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND, BANGKOK, December 31 2010 Three years after he gunned down Canadian Leo Del Pinto in the northern Thai village of Pai the trial of Police Sergeant Uthai Dechachiwat has still not started and papers have now been referred to the Office of Special Litigation in Bangkok. But on January 17th Sergeant Uthai […]
News blog Some British expatriates in Thailand maybe concerned about their government’s plan to target to reduce what the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph are today dubbing ‘abroad fraud’. However by virtue of the fact that the story is in the Mail, and Telegraph and social security scroungers is one of their ‘b?te noires’ there […]
Tough turkey says wife ‘This is Thailand’ From ANDREW DRUMMOND, Bangkok,December 23 2010 A Briton, who became Thailand’s premier turkey farmer, will be eating pot noodles today, because he says turkey sticks in his throat. Plucking away in Hua Hin in bygone days Joe Stanyer, 57, was the equivalent of Britain’s Bernard Matthews, but things […]
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.