From ANDREW DRUMMOND,BANGKOKMAY 6 2011 Britain’s secretive Financial Services Authority have begun operations in Bangkok in a bid to rack up their operations against international boiler rooms a few notches.A team has been in the capital for the last week engaged in discussions with officers at the Crime Suppression Division and counterparts in other Embassies […]
From ANDREW DRUMMONDBangkokMay 6 2011 Edinburgh born Anthony Prestidge, best known as ‘Scots Tony’, wanted in Britain for armed robbery and in Australia for murder has been extradited to Australia for trial.Prestidge, more than six years ago confessed to me that he killed his brother in law Andy Arthur Ball in Perth, and at the time said […]
From ANDREW DRUMMOND, Bangkok Welfare officials in Thailand have interviewed two Irish children aged 12 and 9, who were allegedly thrown down a well, while their father was away on a business trip and being robbed of his property. How the Daily Mail May 2 2011 ran with the story Police in Chalong, Phuket, interviewed […]
FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND,BANGKOK, APRIL 29TH, 2011 This week there is a blackout on news back in Britain and it’s not all bad. The reason is of course because of THE WEDDING.I’m all for a good party and why not celebrate the future marriage of the future King and Queen of England, so I have not […]
Followers of the BBC’s Alastair Leithead will not be in the least surprised to know that ‘Al’ has gone Hollywood, after a mild but recurring case of ‘gone troppo’.Al and yours trulyUsed to dodging bullets in Afghanistan Alastair is possibly the BBC’s most sartorial correspondent with a wide range of helmets all designed to match […]
Prosecution of stalker ‘Buriram boy’ could help battered wives to speak out – court told From ANDREW DRUMMOND Bangkok, April 15 2011 Well it’s been a little bit quiet here for a week mainly because I have been on a couple of assignments which I cannot write about until they hit the print media. But I […]
From ANDREW DRUMMOND,Bangkok, April 1 2011 Daily Mail A British accountant and his Filipina girlfriend have been charged in their abscence with the kidnap and murder of a six-year-old girl on the Philippines island of Cebu. Ian Charles Griffiths, 48, from South West London, is reported to have kidnapped the girl from outside a school […]
FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND, BANGKOKMarch 31 2011The father of a 23-yr-old New Zealand woman who died in hospital in Chiang Mai after being taken seriously ill in a city centre hotel is launching a website to warn travellers that Thailand is no real paradise.Richard Carter, father of Sarah Carter said: ‘We just want to make travellers […]
From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok,March 31 2011Five months after he was found wasting away chained to cell bars in Pattaya police station Briton Richard Hewitt has still not been allowed home, because of legal complications which have delayed a simple case of overstaying his visa.Hewitt, 48, from Brownhills, Birmingham, now revealed in his youth as being a […]
FROM ANDREW DRUMMONDBANGKOKMarch 29 2011 I am not sure whether the BBC bothered to get all the required permissions but as Thailand this year is being promoted as a foreign film hub perhaps the boys and girls from the corporation managed to slip in under the counter during the celebrations. Living the agony: Stacey working […]
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.