ANDREW DRUMMOND HUA HIN, AUGUST 07 2010 (Updated Sept 05 2010) Gunshots in the night, a man screaming in pain floundering in a swimming pool, an armed police raid, murder threats, and some tasty and violent characters from the British crime scene. These are episodes from the continuing soap opera at a housing project for foreigners in […]
The Lersuang Family Tree – see letter Property Pundit British ‘off plan’ property kings Errol Salih and Selwyn Casey – the men who brought us England footballer Joe Cole and gave him a free condo in a non-existent project in Hua Hin have made a tactical withdrawler, have been dismissed from their property rental business, […]
This follows the case of Samantha Orobator, a Nigerian born Briton, locked up in jail in Laos for drugs trafficking.Samantha faced the death sentence but while in jail became pregant with the assistance of another prisoner Briton John Watson . Her case was taken up by the charity ‘Reprieve’ and she returned to Britain under a […]
In June 2010 Andrew Drummond working with photographer Andy Chant were called to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to investigate the activities of David Fletcher, a Briton who had set up the ‘Garbage dump project’. Food is good no matter where it comes fromFletcher, who had a conviction in the UK for the sexual abuse of a 15-yr-old, […]
FCCT – Dateline story on Andrew Drummond April 2010 This is a copy of ‘Dateline’ April 2010 edition produced by the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand. It will be their copyright of course, so for those without Clark Kent powers of vision who actually want to read it, well try here. But if you close […]
From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok, Feb 7 2009 GANGLAND IN HUA HIN (CNTD) Pictures by Andrew Chant and Hua Hin News A wealthy Briton who skipped bail during his high profile trial for drugs dealing has been able to live the ‘high life’ in Thailand due to incompetence and bungling by police and the Crown Prosecution Service. Darren Oxley, who […]
UPDATE: Peter Storrow was discharged of his bankruptcy on May 24 2010 So there I was singing ‘The wheels of the buss go round round, round, round’ to daughter Annie when my computer whirrs, coughs, spits, rings a bell and up comes that name again, flashing on screen…Peter Storrow. Readers of this blog will remember […]
Police volunteer admitted that 160 tourists were scammed including six Britons. ‘No I dont want a laptop I’ve got too many of those. Jewellery will do.’ Link to British couple fight airport extortionists Pictures Andrew Chant Duty free She sat there clutching a plastic bag containing a lipstick along with a till receipt for 570 […]
Link to Sheffield Star story based on copy supplied by this author: Man on the run in shootingFrom Andrew Drummond, BangkokJanuary 29 2009 The wife of a Briton wanted in Sheffield for drugs dealing has been arrested in Thailand for ordering a ‘hit’ on one of her husband’s clients in Thailand. And police have also […]
(originally publish September 2008) When the disgraced former glam-rock star was released from jail in Vietnam, Bangkok based journalists Andrew Drummond and Andrew Chant made sure the convicted paedophile went back to the U.K., despite a Hong Kong diversion which was billed in the UK as Glitter’s Asian Tour 2008.It was fitting as both Drummond […]
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.