BUT WILL SHE PAY THE 18 MILLION BAHT (US$1/2 MILLION) DAMAGES?   EIGHT YEARS ON AND STILL NOT IN JAIL IN A CASE ‘FAST-TRACKED’ BY A THAI PRIME MINISTER.   Janpen The wife of a British fugitive from justice has had her 33 year 6 month jail sentence – for conspiracy to murder one of […]

STOP THAILAND’S QUALITY TESTING OF EXPORTS IF POLICE DO NOT COME CLEAN ON DNA, SAY EXPERTS Thai police are to be reported to an international regulator over their conduct in the investigation of two young Burmese men for the murders of Britons Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on a Thai holiday island. (EVENING STANDARD) International legal and […]

OUTED BY A BOILER ROOM MINION A boiler room boss known in Thailand as ‘Paki Pete’, who has taken down customers for millions of dollars in share fraud has been exposed as an Indian businessman with links to Crime Suppression Division Police. Variously known Pete the Indian, Paki Pete, or Sri Lankan Pete or Tony […]

AFTER MULTIPLE COVER-UPS  VICTIMS  HOLD OUT HOPE Three years after being raided by the Department of Special Investigations in the Thai resort city of Pattaya Italian con man Raoul Bianchetti appears to have become a self-made multi-millionaire. Nevertheless a group of victims are holding out hope that the man who they claim builds floating death […]

Ben Bartanyi must be regretting the day when he showed the class of tourist typically cruising down one of the sleaziest streets in the Thai resort of Pattaya. Ruining the image? This image? He was caught on camera during the country’s Songkran New Year festivities engaged in a sexual act with a Thai bar girl […]

BUT NOT CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS   A reward of US$5000 has been put out now for the whereabouts of Greg Pitt, a former stalwart of the British Chamber of Commerce in Thailand.   According to those hunting him down he has been sentenced to 18 years in jail by the provincial court in Trat […]

THANKS, BUT WE WANT TO RENT AND SELL YOUR HOUSES TO OTHER FOREIGNERS NOW! Foreigners who built expensive holiday and retirement homes on the Thai island of Koh Samui on ‘extendable leases’ leases have been kicked out and their property and their possessions seized. Now their homes are being rented and sold to other foreigners. […]

Briton Simon Corner the subject of a Euro arrest warrant issued after the disappearance of his Scots girlfriend Lis Brown in the south of Spain last November could be a test case for co-operation between police forces across two continents. So far the Guardia Civil, the primary investigator, has been involved with police in Merseyside, […]

HE COULD DEAL WITH ARTHUR SCARGILL BUT NOT THAILAND’S IMMIGRATION POLICE In its continuing onslaught against foreigners Thailand has cut short the annual holiday of British journalist and author Maurice Jones and told him to get packing in seven days. Jones, a well-known and feisty journalist front the north of England wrote the amusing novel […]

CONVICTED BANK ROBBER ARMED BY POLICE IN THAILAND FOR TERROR These are the moments a Thai policeman handed over a gun to a former ‘Double Category A’ British convict in the Thai resort of Hua Hin. The recipient was Jason Coghlan a convicted criminal and bank robbery and brother of the boss of one of […]