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 […]
‘ELLO, ‘ELLO,’ELLO – WHAT ‘AVE WE ‘ERE THEN? Just when something happens which makes you doubt the innocence of the two Burmese accused of murdering Britons Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on Koh Tao, for instance the statements today by the families of the victims saying they have confidence in the police investigation, something always […]
Ray Teret former colleague and friend of DJ child abuser Jimmy Savile whom I was tracking in Thailand a year back has now been found guilty in Britain of raping seven young girls and indecently assaulting seven others. The former Radio Caroline DJ, known as Ugly Ray was mentored by serial abuser Jimmy Savile, Minshull […]
DAYS BEFORE TWO BURMESE GO ON TRIAL FOR MURDER FAMILIES SAY THEY HAVE CONFIDENCE IN INVESTIGATION. Scotland Yard appears to have backed the Thai police investigation into the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the island of Koh Tao, it is being reported today. And the families of Hannah, 23, from Great Yarmouth […]
The Flying Sporran Reports from Foriegn Fantasy Land in Thailand The sommelier to Bangkok’s boiler room boys Nils Daniel Boccalini – also star of a little known television programme called ‘Thailand My Second Home’ is being chased by angry creditors who say that he should look for a third home. Sweet talking Swedish amateur TV […]
‘Please don’t be scared to come forward’ The two Burmese migrant workers accused of murdering Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the Thai island of Koh Tao today issued a letter through their lawyers begging for help in fighting their case. Twenty-one-year-olds Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo made the statement after the Thai prosecutor announced […]
WHAT RUSSIAN MAFIA? NOT HERE! Before – Captain Ostap Doroshenko – family picture It has got it all. Feuding Russians, retribution, fast cars, perhaps faster women, and an island fortress resort in an country struggling to develop. Two Russians Nikolai Doroshenko and Sergei Polonsky have been having a long business feud over ownership of the […]
DON’T DO DRUGS BECAUSE, ER…. Prisoners Abroad and the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office have got together to produce a video warning people not to get involved in drugs abroad. The video is rather understated. It is called ‘Don’t Do Drugs. It’s Not Worth It.’ Yes. I thought that would wake you up. They could […]
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.