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Andrew Drummond

Jack Hansen-Bartel

AN INTRIGUING CATCH 22 FOR THAI POLICE. HOW CAN WE BE CORRUPT? WE WOULD’NT BE POLICE

INVESTIGATE OURSELVES?  SOME MISTAKE SURELY? An investigation into how the Thai Justice system reversed a serious assault case against the son of a Chinese-American millionaire and put the victim of the attack through hell has been blocked by a classic ‘Catch 22’ – getting the Thai police to authorise an investigation against itself. In the […]

FAST TRACKED! TOURIST COURT COMMON ASSAULT CASE TO BE HEARD…NEXT SUMMER

WHEN YOU’RE SMILING – THE WHOLE WORLD SMILES WITH YOU! In a remarkable tribute to the failure of Thailand’s ‘fast track’ tourist courts on the Thai holiday island of Koh Samui the trial of two Chinese Americans charged with the vicious attack of Australian Jack Hansen-Bartel in June 2014 has been postponed until the American […]

AUSSIE MUM PROTESTS CORRUPTION AT THAI PARLIAMENT

– LOVE, COMPASSION, TOLERANCE –  ARE WE INCLUDED? An Aussie mother stages a sit in at the Thai Parliament to complain about rampant corruption in Thailand. The victim is her son Jack Hansen-Bartel a former studentsof the New International School  in Thailand (NIST) who was savagely beaten in a police controlled party bar in Koh […]

DID OZ EMBASSY LIST LAWYER BAT FOR THE OTHER SIDE?

CAN’T BLAME THE VICTIM? BLAME IT ON YOUR BEST FRIEND. This week there have been more skullduggeries in the case of the Chinese-American millionaire and the young Australian former pupil of the New International School of Bangkok. This case as we have reported runs in the typical Thai genre of justice – putting the innocent […]

SAMUI ATTACK: RICH KIDS TOLD THEY DO NOT HAVE TO ATTEND THEIR OWN TRIAL

COMPLAINTS TO GO TO ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION OVER HANDLING OF CLUB RAGE CASE IN SAMUI Police and prosecutors on the Thai island of Koh Samui are to be asked to account for their behaviour before the Public Anti-Corruption Commission over allegations of perverting the course of justice in favour of the son of a Chinese-American millionaire. […]

SAMUI ASSAULT MAN SINGS TO ALLEVIATE WORLD POVERTY – EXCEPT TRUCULENT POOR AUSSIES

‘NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE -NO MATTER WHERE YOU COME FROM’  (except Melbourne) Flying Sporran’s Weekend |Dairy Raymond Chang – one of the two Chinese Americans of the Shanghai American School who have been charged with the vicious attack on Jack Hansen-Bartel in Koh Samui last year has made a video to promote China’s friendship […]

THAI MILITARY LINKS TO FOREIGN CRIMINALS – CAUSE FOR CONCERN – PART ONE

FOREIGN JOURNALISTS UNDER ATTACK IN THAILAND- ARMY SAYS THEY COULD CAUSE INSTABILITY BUT ARMY LINKS TO INTERNATIONAL CRIME STAY STRONG Threat to seal off Maneeya Centre The Thai Military Government, which claims it is waging war on corruption in the country, appears to have created a smokescreen to cover its own illegal and definitely corrupt […]

FURY AS YOUNG AUSSIE ATTACKED BY MILLIONAIRE KIDS IN THAILAND GOES BEHIND BARS

AND THIS COURT WILL TRY TWO BURMESE FOR THE MURDERS OF HANNAH WITHERIDGE AND DAVID MILLER A Thai court held a young Aussie Jack Hansen-Bartel in custody today on a trivial misdemeanour charge concocted by a Chinese-American millionaire whose son and one other are accused of a vicious attack on him last year in Koh […]

FAREWELL SEND-OFF FOR YOUNG AUSSIE IN BATTLE AGAINST RICH KIDS

Jack Hansen-Bartel, the recently graduated pupil of the New International School of Thailand involved in the ‘Green Mango” controversy  left for Australia at the weekend to a send-off from friends and colleague – not forgetting his campaigning mum Annie Hansen. Judges in Koh Samui have ordered his mother not to issue any more statements to […]

HEAR YE! HEAR YE! SCHOOL’S OUT AND THE COURT IS NOW IN SESSION

THE AMERICAN OR CHINESE WAY? Chang Just been down to my local mall to have a coffee with Annie Hansen – the mother of Jack Hansen-Bartel who was seriously attacked on Koh Samui last year and has recently undergone more corrective surgery. If any case is worth observing to see how the Thai justice system […]