FEISTY IRISH TEENAGER CONTINUES HER CAMPAIGN AGAINST THAI SLEAZE ‘JUSTICE FOR JESSIE’ Sixteen-year-old Jessie Vard is not letting up in her campaign on behalf of her dad, Irish children’s author Colin Vard – and she’s back on Facebook with her own view on corruption in Thailand. The interesting part is that she is showing pictures […]
KIDS POWER – WE’VE HAD ENOUGH! WE WANT TO PLAY! End Phuket Corruption Now! Jessie Vard and her brother Daire at Ministry of Justice A YouTube video from a 16-year-old Irish girl brought up in Thailand condemning the corruption of police and officials has gone viral with other children now posting on the internet site […]
FLYING SPORRAN’S DIARY Nong Nooch line-up The story of Jessie Vard and her father who had all his investments in Thailand stolen from under him is of course alarming. But its commonplace I am afraid to say. It demonstrates a complete and utter breakdown in Thailand’s justice system. And I am afraid it demonstrates that […]
IS THERE ANY JUSTICE IN THAILAND? PLEASE DON’T KILL MY DAD? A 15-year-old Irish girl has gone on the internet to complain about corrupt police and lawyers on the Thai holiday island of Phuket saying she is scared to lose her father who has been fighting against them for five years Jessie Vard, daughter of […]
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.