How C4 Dispatches Betrayed My Trust
The Times Friday May 14 1999 A C4 expose of the trade in Thai women to the British sex industry should have dealt a blow to traffickers. Instead it may have endangered some of those who took part, says Andrew DrummondOn April 29 smart blue flyers were inserted into newspapers throughout Britain posing the question: ‘Is […]
Murder In Chiang Mai
Murder in Chiang MaiTimes 2 Cover Story Thursday August 17 2000Kirsty Jones was found dead in a backpackers’ guesthouse in Thailand seven days ago. She had been strangled with her sarong. Other guests have given conflicting accounts. Drugs have been found, and police made errors. Andrew Drummond reports from Chiang MaiThe sign says: ‘Don’t nibble. […]
An Unadulterated Documentary For Once, Uncut With Fiction
Lord of the Golden Triangle -Reviews‘Andrew Drummond reported on the same region for an excellent Everyman documentary in 1988 and his new film – made for Granada by the newly formed newspaper subsidiary the Observer Film Company – shares the same ingredients of journalistic derring-do (‘by mule through the minefields of no-man’s land’, political analysis […]
A Gleaming Model Of What Investigative Reporting On TV
REVIEWS Time Out December 8 198620/20 Vision: No Man Mants to die: 10.30-11.30 20/20 to C4A gleaming model of what investigative reporting on TV should be. Punchy, hastily re-written, and updated ‘No Man Wants to Die’ reports on Derrick Gregory imprisoned in Malaysia and facing that country’s mandatory death sentence for heroin smuggling.”””””””””””” Today Dec 8 1986Tonight’s television […]
Burma's Forgotten Allies – Observer Magazine
When Burma allied itself with Japan during World War II in the hope of gaining independence from the British, one sector of the population remained loyal to the Crown – the Karen hill people. They have suffered for it ever since. Andrew Drummond reports from the Burma-Thai border, where the Karen are now fighting for […]
Thaksin Insists City Takeover Is Still On
June 12, 2007By Andrew Drummond in BangkokManchester City fear that the proposed takeover by Thaksin Shinawatra, the former Prime Minister of Thailand, is in jeopardy after his assets were frozen by an anticorruption committee in Bangkok. Thaksin insists that he could proceed with his bid, but the club have demanded written assurances.The 57-year-old’s solicitor, Noppadol […]
The Sex Slave Trade – LWT For Channel 4 Dispatches
The Sex Slave Trade – LWT for Channel 4 Dispatches (Secret filming) April 29 1999Credit: Investigation in Thailand by Andrew DrummondEarly in 1999 Andrew Drummond was contacted by London Weekend Television. Their Factual Programming Department had put in a proposal to make a programme for Channel 4 Dispatches on the trafficking of women into Britain to […]
Exposing The Nazi Right
Under a false identity for 18 months in the early 80s Andrew Drummond infiltrated the League of St. George, regarded as the ‘thinking man’s Nazi party’, and the umbrella for a wide range of different Nazi movements in Britain.He mixed both with intellectual Nazis and with their skinhead street-fighters and attended the annual bashes at […]
Lord Archer's Bagman
As if often the case in British scandals it is not an indiscretion which brings down a government official or Member of Parliament but the lies told afterwards.Such was the case in a scandal involving Jeffrey Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-Super-Mare, and former deputy chairman of Britain’s Conservative Party. Archer had been accused by a British […]
Unmasked: Drug Baron Who Got Away/ No Man Wants To Die
‘No Man Wants to Die’ Twenty Twenty Television for Channel 4, U.K.Credit: Investigation by Andrew Drummond. This was an investigation in to the British heroin syndicate which recruited Derrick Gregory, 32, an unemployed Briton with a history of mental illness, to smuggle heroin out of Malaysia.While reporting on the conviction and execution of Australians Geoffrey Chambers and […]
