‘I AM DEFENDING MY DAUGHTER. WHY WOULD A PARENT SEND HIS CHILDREN TO THAILAND IF MEN LIKE THIS CAN ROAM FREE?’ The Dutch father , who composed a song called ‘Evil Man in Krabi’about a Thai tourist guide who charged with brutally attacking and raping his daughter, said today that he was willing to go […]
Why Me? Why Me? – From ANDREW DRUMMOND, Bangkok – A young Briton was today in hospital in Thailand with multiple stab wounds after defending his girlfriend from a sex attack in an idyllic beach resort area. Jack with April Jack Cole, 21, from Bath, told today how a group of Thai youths on motorcycles […]
SHOTGUN TOTING FATHER PROTESTS BAIL FOR TOURIST GUIDE WHO ALLEGEDLY BRUTALLY BEAT AND RAPED HIS DAUGHTER – FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND, BANGKOK - A shotgun toting angry father whose model daughter was raped while on holiday in Thailand has put an emotional musical video up on the internet in protest that her attacker has been given bail. The […]
WILLIAM GOAD LIVED OPENLY IN PATTAYA WITH GYPSY BOYS WHILE ON RUN British paedophile William Goad, 68, a man accredited with some 3,500 cases of child sexual abuse has died in Albany Prison on the Isle of Wight in the U.K. Goad was arrested in Britain in 2004 after returning from Pattaya, Thailand, where he […]
BNP MEMBER FACES FIRING SQUAD 28/09/2012 A young British father found guilty of drugs smuggling has been sentenced to death by a court in Indonesia. Gareth Dane Cashmore, 33, from Wakefield, West Yorkshire received the sentence for attempting to smuggle 6.5kg of crystal methamphetamine into the country. Cashmore, a former roofer, had originally been sentenced […]
Thailand caught left footed in ‘vendetta’ against popular animal rights man Edwin Wiek, the popular founder of the Wildlife Friends of Thailand, said today that he would go to jail rather than profer bail money in what he says is a vendetta being carried out against him by the Department of National Parks. He says […]
‘WOUNDED BUFFALO’ CASE – THREE ARRESTED, TWO FLEE From ANDREW DRUMMOND, Bangkok, September 21 2012 The street execution of a retired Network Rail supervisor in rural Thailand was paid for by his Thai wife and her lover, police said today. Stephen Phillips – a photograph taken in Khon Kaen and titled by a close friend […]
A SILENT TRIUMPH IN KRABI From Andrew Drummond Bangkok, September 21 2012 Chumphon Khawnuang – Wanted for rape and assault A 26-year-old Thai tourist guide appeared in court today with the rape and assault of a young Dutch model who was holidaying in July in Krabi with her boyfriend. Chumphon Khawnuang of Koh Phagnan, Surat […]
PILLION RIDER COWARDLY DUMPS ROCK INTO SCIENTIST’S AUDI & RUNS The Flying Sporran’s occasional education column September 19 2012 These are the moments a British agriculturalist’s car was attacked as he was driving to court in his battle against the boss of Thailand’s Innovation Agency – caught on CCTV as his car was stuck in a traffic […]
‘In some cases Britons in Thailand are worse off than the poorest of Thais’ – British Honorary Consul From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok September 11 2012 Is the British government condemning a large group of senior citizens to an early and excruciatingly painful death? Almost certainly it is playing a part, but health services and insurance […]
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.