Various Thai media and the Daily Mail using its vast reserve of internet trawling online reporters have been running a story this week about 33-year-old Benjamin Robert Simpson an alleged wealthy crypto currency dealer who, while high on methamphetamine indulged in a shooting spree from his speedboat off the Thai island of Koh Samui. The […]
‘POLICE AND CHRISTIAN EVANGELISTS SET ME UP’ SAYS DOUGLAS SHOEBRIDGE – WANTED IN THAILAND FOR TRAFFICKING IN AFRICAN WOMEN An Australian aide to Thai police, who has been accused of framing fellow Australian Luke Cook for a death sentence in Thailand in a sensational drugs trafficking trial, claims he now himself has been framed on […]
GOOD BYE Y’ALL! RIGHT-HAND MAN WHISTLEBLOWER ON THAI POLICE COMBATTING FOREIGN CRIME UNIT IS SILENCED Looking rather meek and fazed Joshua Pate, a former volunteer of an unorthodox police unit tackling foreign criminals stands under arrest for drug dealing in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Texan Pate, 44, who had been with the controversial unit involved in […]
BUT THAILAND’S FRENCH ‘FLIC’ THIERRY PERENON WAITS IN THE WINGS Liverpool brothers Joseph and Gregory Mulhane have understandably been in a tizzy this week since they were arrested in Thailand on a warrant issued by the North West Regional Crime Unit in the United Kingdom on drugs dealing allegations. The two likely lads actually from […]
FROM AN ENGLISH CHILDREN’S HOME TO SAMUI COURT As the days draw closer to the day when two young Burmese men go on trial on the Thai island of Koh Samui for the rape and murder of Hannah Witheridge and the murder of David Miller on nearby Koh Tao, and after a young British woman was […]
GANGLAND BRITAIN IN HUA HIN (CONTD) One of Hua Hin’s most famous developers, former Brit drugs supremo Darren Oxley, is in the centre of a controversy again after a Russian buyer was allegedly stiffed for the 3 million baht which he put down on an Oxley Home. It turns out that the land, which 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 […]
BUT PATTAYA’S MOST OUTRAGEOUS SEX TOURIST WILL FIGHT STANDING! POLICE PROBE JOURNALIST’S BROKEN BAG STRAP. The journalists from Sneaky TV in Australia have snuck off. They did not want to get arrested. They did not want their film seized. So at 4 am this morning they hiked it out of Pattaya and got a morning […]
Alys A British Embassy consular official faces a Foreign Office inquiry for over-servicing a British subject while on consular duty. Vice-Consul Alys Harahap has been accused of over-visiting a British prisoner and giving him a comforting hug. The British newspaper the ‘Mail on Sunday’ even goes on to suggest she is having a ‘secret affair’ […]
AWFULLY WELL KNOWN EXPAT COP ARRESTED FOR DRUGS OFFENCES – Garry Halpin – Phuketwan An expat police volunteer well known to both this site and probably even better known to the media down in Phuket has been arrested for selling ‘Ice’ and ‘Yaa Baa’ after being arrested in a police sting. No explanation has been […]
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.