From ANDREW DRUMMOND,Bangkok, September 22 2010Evening StandardMurdered British merchant navy captain wanted protection – Daily TelegraphA British merchant navy captain who was gunned down in the Philippines had applied to join a witness protection programme after being caught in an arms smuggling operation.Bruce Anthony Jones, 50, who led a wealthy expatriate life-style with his Filipina […]
From ANDREW DRUMMOND, Bangkok,September 20 2010Link to CBC CalgaryA Thai policeman who gunned down two Canadian backpackers in northern Thailand has killed again. Police Sergeant Uthai Dechawiwat, 39,(left) who killed 25-yr-old backpacker Leo Del Pinto and seriously injured his companion Carly Reisig, has now been accused of clubbing his pregnant teenage bride to death. The […]
FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND September 7th 2010 A British man who owns a South Philippines beach resort was shot dead in front of his wife by thieves. Anthony Nicholas, 64 – gunned down in the Philippines Anthony Nicholas, 64, died in a hail of bullets when he refused to stop his motorised tricycle for armed men. […]
From ANDREW DRUMMOND,Bangkok, September 4 2010ITV London Tonight Link to Daily Mail and video Update: Sept 7 2010 – All of this money has now been raisedA mystery benefactor and the public have raised the equivalent of £43,000 to save the life of a young Briton, who was involved in a horrific motorcycle crash in Thailand, and […]
From Andrew Drummond, BangkokSaturday September 4 2010 British police are to withdraw charges against a Scotsman wanted in Thailand on two charges of rape after discovering they can no longer put together a case against him.Police in Northumbria have admitted that now ten years on they can no longer present sufficient evidence against George Hoolahan, […]
FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND, BANGKOK, AUGUST 30 2010 An American internet porn king who brought to the world such websites as ‘ThaiSluts’ and has won approval from the Thai government to get tax concessions for his new internet business in Pattaya. After first having his business blessed by Buddhist monks and opened by the Mayor of […]
A Belfast man was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment for drugs dealing in Thailand despite protests from his family that he had been framed. Tommy McAuley, from Belfast’s Shankhill Road, but an Irish passport holder, failed to convince judges at Pattaya Criminal Court that he was innocent. Tommy McAuley after his arrested Tommy McAuley after […]
From ANDREW DRUMMONDin Luang Prabang, Northern LaosAugust 20 2010 Luang Prabang Hollywood star Jude Law and his lover Sienna Williams posed as backpackers in remote communist Northern Laos and pledged their love for each other in a ceremony conducted here by a village shaman.In a picture-book journey which ended north of Luang Prabang, the ancient […]
Blog/The opinions here are those of the author. He had the ticket and had booked his seat but just 24 hours before David Fletcher was due to be deported from Thailand – as a persona non grata having served a jail sentence in the UK for sexually abusing a minor – his trip to Blighty was […]
From ANDREW DRUMMONDBangkok, August 11 2010 This is the last known picture of retired business man Raymond Hind smiling happily as his Thai wife in a swirly shirt and 99% pure gold pendant cheekily makes a ‘V’ sign behind his head. Months later Hind, 68, from Cheshunt, Herts, who was terminally ill with throat cancer […]
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.