One of the worst scandals in the annals of tourism’ – Daily Mail Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary As Thailand takes some hard knocks from a book about to be published called ‘Destination: Deadly Thailand’ – described by the Daily Mail as exposing ‘one of the worst scandals in the annals of modern tourism’ – some […]
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 […]
CAN THAI POLICE STLL GET AWAY WITH OLD STYLE ‘COVER UPS’ AND ‘FIT-UPS’? Tortured ‘Narong’ over the Kirsty Jones murder ‘Do it for Thailand’ As the controversy continues over who was responsible for the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on Koh Tao, and police close ranks on their now sealed inquiry, questions are […]
KOH TAO MURDERS: HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION TO SUMMONS OFFICERS ON THE GROUND Porntip Senior police officers involved in the Koh Tao murder investigation today appeared before a board of the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand to answer allegations about the torture of Burmese migrant workers and suspects. The HRC has now it says received […]
THAI PM CONCEDES TO REQUEST BY DAVID CAMERON But Thai police chief not happy British police have been given the green light to investigate DNA procedures and torture claims surrounding the Thai investigation into the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller. Diplomatic sources have confirmed that Prime Minister General Prayuth Chan-Ocha has accepted that […]
WHILE BRITAIN’S AMBASSADOR TARGETS THAI MEDIA – Protesters demanding an British government investigation into the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller were successful today in handing their petition into the British Prime Minister David Cameron at 10 Downing Street. The demo attracted quite a large crowd including Burmese and Thai – although as usual only […]
‘EVERYONE KNEW FROM THE START’ ‘THE BURMESE WERE SCAPEGOATS!’ A leading Thai media mogul went on his own television station in Bangkok last night and said that Thai police were covering up for the island mafia over the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller. Sondhi Limthongkul boss of Manager magazine and Asia Satellite Television […]
TWO MURDERS TOO FAR- PERHAPS MISGUIDED, PERHAPS BELATED BUT 80,000 PEOPLE HAVE SIGNED- AND THEY WANT UK GOVERNMENT TO BE MORE ACTIVE- An online petition demanding a British investigation into the deaths of backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller may be less than pragmatic – but some 80,000 people have signed – some of whom […]
CONFUSED ABOUT WHAT’S HAPPENING IN THE KOH TAO MURDER TRIAL? HERE’S A ROUGH GUIDE No it was this way! No it was that a’way! A defendant writes Thailand’s Justice system will come under considerable scrutiny during the trial of the two young Burmese men if foreign observers are allowed and foreign police are also able […]
The British Government has now officially raised its concerns over the Thai investigation into who killed Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the island of Koh Tao. Foreign Office Minister summonsed the Thai Charge d’Affairs in London and in particular raised concern about the behaviour of the Royal Thai Police and it’s dealing with the […]
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.