INVESTIGATE OURSELVES? SOME MISTAKE SURELY? An investigation into how the Thai Justice system reversed a serious assault case against the son of a Chinese-American millionaire and put the victim of the attack through hell has been blocked by a classic ‘Catch 22’ – getting the Thai police to authorise an investigation against itself. In the […]
– LOVE, COMPASSION, TOLERANCE – ARE WE INCLUDED? An Aussie mother stages a sit in at the Thai Parliament to complain about rampant corruption in Thailand. The victim is her son Jack Hansen-Bartel a former studentsof the New International School in Thailand (NIST) who was savagely beaten in a police controlled party bar in Koh […]
The ‘Rich Kids Incident’ – Eight Months On A Valentine’s Day Message As the case against two young Chinese-American rich kids for the brutal attack on Australian Jack Hansen-Bartel drags on in the Samui Courts with attempts by Thai police to even charge the victim, his mother is not holding back. A long term expat […]
WHAT NEXT FOR BATTLING AUSSIE MUM? Two rich kids, who were charged in connection with a vicious attack on an Australian student in the Green Mango Club in Koh Samui and who then signed a fictitious lease for an apartment on the island to show they were not a flight risk, were given their passports […]
IS ISLAND JUSTICE STILL ISLAND JUSTICE? It was late in Koh Samui’s famous ‘Soi Green Mango’ and the customers, several of whom have just passed out of school and awaiting University, are dancing away to the beat – when in the mayhem fell to the floor. In just a few seconds he had taken three blows […]
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.