LOST IN TRANSLATION – I AM TOTALLY INNOCENT – SAYS MAN FINGERED BY POLICE AS DRUGS TRAFFICKER Walter Douglas has been in touch to state that he has been unfairly treated and re-iterates the fact that he has never been convicted in connection with drugs or for money laundering. Although this is quite clearly stated […]
ME? A CRIME BOSS? THE PRESS HAVE AN AWFIE WAY WITH WORDS! Walter Douglas pictured in Amsterdam It’s mid-afternoon at Dreamers Beach Club in Koh Samui and the boss has just hopped off a boat from Koh Phangan when I catch up with him at his club putting away a chicken salad for a late […]
POLICE IN MANILA DEMANDED TO SEE WHAT RUNAWAY HAD TOLD THAI POLICE – BEFORE SETTING HIM UP ON RAPE CHARGE The Commission of Human Rights in Manila has passed on a report to the government and chief prosecutor recommending the prosecution of six Metro Manila Police officers who arrested a ‘runaway’ from a Bangkok boiler […]
HOME BUYERS IN CHIANG MAI FIND THEMSELVES CAUGHT UP IN THE DRUGS POLITICS OF THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE Foreign home owners in Chiang Mai have been caught between a rock and a hard place after the arrest of a major developer for murder and suspicions that a foreign housing development in the city has been built […]
The young son of a British M.P. has been arrested in Laos for drugs related offences. The incident which has been suppressed by British newspapers should however be taken as a warning to visitors to the country. People should be particularly careful in the backpacker hot spot of Vang Vien. A spectacular holiday can turn into a […]
Now Thai Supplier Sought In Bali Drugs Case From Andrew Drummond, Denpasar, Bali May 30 2010 The British father of six-year-old Kitty Ponder broke his silence today to say Lindsay Sandiford set himself and his partner Rachel Dougall up with a damning haul of cocaine on the holiday island of Bali. As Bali police continued […]
Thumbs up! This is Simon Gunn. He is, or rather was, the wealthy boss of a drug and alcohol rehabilitation clinic in Thailand for royalty and Hollywood stars. But here he is flying high in a haze of ‘Ice’ – crystal methamphetamine. Gunn, 44, who says on the website for the Channah Drugs and Alcohol […]
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.