AND DREW HAS NO NEED TO PAY BAIL! “PATTAYA COURT MADE MISTAKE NOT SENDING ‘SACKED’ REPORTER TO JAIL!” The following just arrived from Somchai  Drew Noyes’ ”spokesman’, who claimed two days ago that his alter-ego would be found not guilty. He used the expression: ‘Its not what you know – its who you know”. Drew Noyes […]

FIRST BARREL DISCHARGED ON PLAINTIFF’S FOOT (Flying Sporran Comment) British Migrant Workers Right’s Campaigner Andy Hall was today acquitted of libel by a Thai court – delivering a blow to Thailand’s foot-shooting propensity for allowing victims of bad news to shoot the messengers. Twitter Pic – Jonathan Head And while the messengers have been in […]

The British Government has supported moves by the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand calling on the Thai authorities to review ‘frivolous’ criminal defamation cases brought against a veteran British foreign correspondent, who has been investigating foreign crime in Thailand. Britain’s Ambassador Mark Kent and FCCT President Jonathan Head, the BBC’s South East Asia Correspondent have […]

JAIL AND DEPORTATION FACE PATTAYA’S ‘MOST CREDIBLE BUSINESSMAN’ FEMME FATALE ALSO GETS TWO YEARS Unlikely Bonnie and Clyde Drew Walter Noyes an American confidence trickster who posed as a lawyer in Thailand was jailed for two years at Pattaya Provincial Court today for attempted extortion. And with him to the cells went Wanrapa Boonsu (‘Kung’) […]

Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary I have always been a bit wary of senior sergeants and sergeant majors in the Thai Police force. They are not like the classic British Army Sergeant Majors, who in days of old, actually ran the British army, and may still do. Anuthep No, Thai Police senior sergeants and sergeant majors […]

WHO IS WATCHING THAILAND’S ‘MEDICAL HUB’ CLINICS? The death of 24-year-old Joy Williams while under anaesthetic at the SP Clinic in Lard Prao, Bangkok, continues to get a lot of space in the British Press – not least because a lot of Britons come to Bangkok and other parts of Thailand as part of ‘medical […]

Non existent Honours Degree in Law Fake British lawyer Brian Goudie, aka Brian Goldie, is due to appear in Pattaya Provincial Court on Monday in a preliminary hearing in relation to an alleged scam on clients of his pseudo law firm ‘Alba Laws’. Goudie,48, currently commuting between Samui, Cha-am, Hua Hin, and Prachuap Khiri Kan, […]

On the day British police finally made it to the Thai island of Koh Tao the scene of the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller, Britain’s Foreign Office has stated that it is concerned not only about the alleged mistreatment of the two Burmese men now held in Koh Samui jail but also concerned […]

‘We’ll tie you to burning tyres!’ – ‘We’ll cut off your limbs and put them in plastic bags’ As the Koh Tao murder case rumbles on, despite Thai Police putting a lid on the affair and stating the case was now closed, the father of one of the accused has given an interview to the […]

An inquiry is under way in Bangkok into how a 24-year-old British woman died under anaesthetic while undergoing simple plastic surgery. The body of the woman (name withheld) was taken from the SP Clinic in the Huay Khwang District of Bangkok late on Thursday. Thai authorities say a British woman has died under anaesthesia during […]