Would you blame the manufacturer in your new car had a flat tyre? Down in Hong Kong Lindell Lucy is busy sleuthing in the field of expat investment. Whatever he says I’m guessing is relevant to all expatriates in Thailand too – and for those just about to hand over their bucks to an independent […]

Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary Yesterday in the UK the Guardian published a very good article about the plight of the two young Burmese charged with the murder of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the Thai island of Kho Tao. The article carried criticism of Scotland Yard and the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in […]

COURT ACTION AGAINST FAKE LAWYERS IN PATTAYA Drew Noyes – US Ambassador Controversial American businessman Drew Noyes, former publisher of the Pattaya Times, blocked his Facebook page yesterday hours after a British journalist told a Thai court that last week he had used it to describe an oil worker with a baby daughter – as […]

“It was terrifying. My boyfriend was dead. He was staring me in the face and not breathing – but all the clinic boss would say was ‘He’s just sleeping’. A young Australian woman has told how she fled the Thai island of Koh Phangan after her fiancé died in front of her while undergoing a […]

LION’S CLUB PRESIDENT OUT OF CONTROL Drew Walter Noyes, the former publisher of the Pattaya Times newspaper, who has been convicted and sentenced to two years for extortion, has gone on the internet astonishingly to falsely accuse an oil worker of child sexual abuse. Donning his sash as President of the Thai-Indian dominant Lions Club […]

RAY TERET GETS 25 YEARS ‘THOUGHT THE COURTS WOULD DISBELIEVE THE ACCOUNTS OF VICTIMS AND DOUBTED THEY WOULD COME FORWARD.’ Ray Teret the British disco jockey who made Pattaya his home was jailed for 25 years for raping and indecently assaulting 11 under aged girls was jailed for 25 years at Manchester Minshill Crown Court […]

PLUS – COVERING UP A SUSPICIOUS DEATH ON KOH PHANGAN. Shot three times on the bed but where’s the blood? And why did things in the crime scene keep moving? Apologies to readers for the lack of pace in recent stories. That’s because I have had to go and spend time researching.  I have been […]

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH PROTESTS PLAN TO SEND PRISONERS TO WORK ON THAILAND’S FISHING BOATS! Human Rights Watch has protested a plan by Thailand’s military government to send prisoners to work in Thailand’s fishing fleet – seemingly a 21st Century resurrection of the Roman tradition of sending prisoners to the Galleys. Working in Roman Galleys the […]

FOREIGN OFFICE SHOULD BE CALLED TO ACCOUNT The two Burmese migrant workers accused of the brutal killings of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the Thai ‘paradise island’ of Koh Tao, have been given just 16 more days to prepare their case which has now been quietly been brought forward to Boxing Day. But the […]

There has been widespread publicity over the forthcoming trial of the two Burmese migrant workers who will be asked today to plead guilty to murder and rape charges relating to the barbaric killings of Britons Hannah Witheridge and David Miller – and also extremely silly ones of entering the country and working illegally something quite […]