HIS CAR WAS TORCHED. HE WAS GUNNED DOWN AND PARALYSED FOR LIFE. THEN HE GOT FINANCIAL ADVICE IN BANGKOK! ** (Pic:Donald ‘Biff’ Whiting) Former U.S. Marine Donald ‘Biff’ Whiting may possibly be resentful of settling down in Thailand with his wife Dolly a senior educationalist. Readers of this site will already know how he was […]
-HE WOULD HAVE GOT DEATH – BUT SOMCHAI WISETSINGH WAS AN ‘OUTSTANDING’ THAI POLICEMAN- AND NOW HE’S COUNTING THE DAYS. Police Sergeant Somchai Wisetsingh whose death sentence for the murders of backpackers Vanessa Arscott and Adam Lloyd in Kanchanaburi was commuted to 50 years nine years ago has had his sentence reduced by 32 years. […]
Emerald Palace Visited By Police – Sensation A controversial condominium project in Pattaya linked to a British company, which has taken billions of pounds for property projects, which have never been built, in the Caribbean and Thailand, was yesterday (Wednesday) visited by police and Pattaya Consumer Protection Officers. (Picture by CB) Emerald Palace on Pratamnak […]
The Flying Sporran’s Full Moon Diary- Nobody dances outside the Zoom Bar on the Thai island of Koh Phangan anymore. Well they won’t until the fuss dies down. It was closed down by police order after Briton Stephen Ashton took a bullet in his side on New Year’s morning. I don’t suppose the bar […]
BUT CHIEF OF PAI POLICE WAS DISMISSED FROM THE FORCE- -From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok, January 7 2013- (Pic: Uthai who also clubbed to death his 18-year-old wife) The Thai policeman who shot dead Canadian Leo Del Pinto in the northern Thai village of Pai in January 2007 shot downwards into his body on both occasions […]
HARLEQUIN RAN ‘SYSTEMATIC FRAUD’ – CLAIMS THEIR ACCOUNTANT (Picture: David Ames) – A company run by a former bankrupt British double glazing salesman responsible for selling off plan developments on Thailand’s eastern seaboard is finally going to be grilled in the High Court in London over its activities. The boss of Harlequin, Essex businessman David […]
U.N. OUTRAGE AS FORMER GANGSTER GETS FAKE UNESCO CROSS AND CERTIFICATE OF HONOUR! (Picture: Niels Colov centre in Copenhagen in the bad old days) The head of Pattaya City’s Foreign Police Volunteers and boss of Pattaya People newspaper, radio and television, has been honoured in a FAKE United Nations medal and certificate SCAM. Two Pattaya […]
-Journalist bought off with two Heinekens and a Cottage Pie- -Flying Sporran’s Weekend Dairy- This space was reserved for an exposé of a human trafficking link between Pattaya and the UK. I am afraid it was however sort of hijacked by two free beers, a rather nice Cottage Pie, so large I was unable to […]
Drew Noyes- Wanrapa Boonsu – COUPLE ON BAIL FOR EXTORTION POCKETED ‘THAI WIFE’S’ PAY-OFF – CLAIM. Drew Noyes and Wanrapa Boonsu- the controversial couple behind the Pattaya Times newspaper and a supposed law company in Pattaya called P.A.P.P.A have been accused of swindling another foreigner out of 2.5 million baht while they were on bail […]
CHARTS SHOW RECKLESS ABANDON -They cold call you at your office or home and they give the impression they are the ‘bees knees’ in the financial business and will even warn you against rogue traders. But Bangkok’s ‘Independent Financial Advisors’ are giving international finance, well, a bad name, and expats – and it is expats […]
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.