The response to the death of Stuart O’Neill and the resulting flood of touching messages that followed have over the last two weeks turned around a really tragic incident into a celebration of the life of a great and funny friend. Now I am being brought back to earth with a bump by a flurry […]

From ANDREW DRUMMONDBangkok, July 3 2010British child protection police arrived in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh today to help surpervise an investigation into the activities of 66-yr-old David Fletcher, who ran a charity for children on a city garbage dump.Two officers from CEOP -the  Child Exploitation and Online Protection   centre- arrived in the capital and […]

This follows the case of Samantha Orobator, a Nigerian born Briton, locked up in jail in Laos for drugs trafficking.Samantha faced the death sentence but while in jail became pregant with the assistance of another prisoner Briton John Watson . Her case was taken up by the charity ‘Reprieve’ and she returned to Britain under a […]

In June 2010 Andrew Drummond working with photographer Andy Chant were called to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to investigate the activities of David Fletcher, a Briton who had set up the ‘Garbage dump project’. Food is good no matter where it comes fromFletcher, who had a conviction in the UK for the sexual abuse of a 15-yr-old, […]

A convicted British child abuser was today being held in custody in Bangkok and is expected to be the second Briton deported under the country’s new anti-paedophile policy. David Fletcher David Fletcher, 66, from Saffron Walden, Essex, was arrested at a guest house in Bangkok after fleeing Cambodia where he was running a charity for […]

This is a blog I’m sorry. I make no apologies today for giving you an old story. But this is a story I wrote the best part of 14 years ago and it just shows, well, not a lot of of things have changed. Its about Pattaya of course, and the local shenanigans. In a day or […]

This is a blog only Well not exactly, but readers of this blog will already know that I previously said that it was pointless attacking the BBC or CNN or other foreign correspondents over the coverage of the red shirt riots in Bangkok because things always to tend to turn around in the end. A […]

The head of a ‘Volunteer Project’ offering tours feeding children at Phnom Penh’s Stung Mean Chey rubbish dump has fled the city after first trying to ‘borrow’ the engagement ring he gave a 17-yr-old student there. David Fletcher, 66, who was exposed in last week’s Sunday Mirror as having a conviction for the sexual abuse […]

Convicted child sexual abuser runs ‘ charity’ for rubbish dump kids in Cambodia Food is good no matter where it comes from The atmosphere was tense in a little hut next to a massive toxic garbage mountain, for many years the sole source of income for poverty stricken families here in the capital of Cambodia. […]

From ANDREW DRUMMOND,Bangkok, June 17 2010(Story and picture credit: Phuket Gazette)A British woman was attacked in Thailand by a pack of crab eating Macaques while trying to conquer her lifelong fear of primates.Macaque pic courtesy of animal.info.com not S & P restaurantsDee Darwell, 56, from Peterborough blacked out as first one monkey then another bit her […]