BUT POLICE WARN ‘BE CAREFUL. YOU COULD BE SUED’. The Thai National Commission for Human Rights has provided a hotline and an email for any witnesses who feel they can shed new light on the murders of Britons David Miller and Hannah Witheridge on the island of Koh Tao. But almost simultaneously Deputy Police Commissioner-General […]

NEGATIVE INSINUATIONS WERE OUT OF LINE. Workers’ rights activist is asking the office of the National Broadcasting Telecommunications Commission to adjudicate his complaints over a three part ‘investigation’ by Thai Channel 3 television into his role in the ‘Natural Fruit’ controversy. The series widely regarded as a ‘stitch up’ in the foreign community suggested Hall, […]

FIGHT THE FAKE OFFICER AND GENTLEMAN The appeal for help in raising bail to fight an international confidence trickster Brian Goudie whom a court in Koh Samui, Thailand, has agreed can sue  journalist Andrew Drummond for publishing pictures, among others, of Goudie in the attire of a barrister at law and an officer in the […]

As international human rights agencies seeks clarification on a controversial Thai murder investigation, staff at the Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok send a team to Koh Samui A Burmese migrant worker ngo also has sent a team to Koh Samui where the suspects are being held. But police chief Police General Somyot Pumpunmuang denies they are scapegoats. And […]

(UPDATED) AN APPEAL FOR SANITY, er, and CASH. Due to an increasing number of serious physical threats and other threats to my freedom, which, I guess, would have to be implemented illegally with co-operation of local police, I plan to leave this country next year,  with my three young children, subject to proceedings in hand. […]

The last article on this site “Boiling water and beatings, claim Burmese workers” has been deliberately mistranslated and is currently circulating around Thai media and social networking sites stating that I wrote that the men under arrest had been tortured. This is of course NOT a claim I have made. I have no knowledge of […]

PLEASE DON’T CLOSE THIS CASE! Three of the out of group of nine Burmese who were friends of the two who now face the death penalty in Thailand for murder of two British backpackers were tortured by Thai police six days ago, it was claimed today. Praying and begging for forgiveness (Khao Sod)  Or is […]

THAI POLICE RE-ENACT KOH TAO MURDER SCENE ‘VERY SATISFIED WITH INVESTIGATION’ BUT BURMESE SAY ‘THEY DID NOT DO IT’ Two Burmese migrant labourers, who police say have confessed to the brutal murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller, were today ordered to take part in a reconstruction of the murder scene – comically one holding […]

Thai Police today said that a 21-year old Burmese bar worker has confessed to the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the holiday island of Koh Tao. Burmese suspects share a at about 10.30 pm motorbike behind Sairee Beach, Koh Tao. Win is No 1 sandwiched between his friends – Picture Royal Thai […]

POLICE CHIEF REMOVED – NOW ISLANDERS WANT FEES TO PREVENT MURDERS OF TOURISTS Flying Sporran Comment Well here we go again. They are doing their best to spoil my prediction that there might be a logical ‘Agatha Christie’ ending to the Koh Tao murders. Today the Nation newspaper is reporting that the Koh Parish Council, […]