THAILAND’S MURDER HISTORY FROM A BRITISH FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT’S VIEW INTRODUCTION: Following the controversial death sentences on the young Burmese men Wai Phyo and Zaw Lin in Koh Samui for the murders last year on Koh Tao of Hannah Witheridge and Davild Miller, I have been asked to detail the controversial cases where flagrant breaches of […]
CAN THAI POLICE STLL GET AWAY WITH OLD STYLE ‘COVER UPS’ AND ‘FIT-UPS’? Tortured ‘Narong’ over the Kirsty Jones murder ‘Do it for Thailand’ As the controversy continues over who was responsible for the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on Koh Tao, and police close ranks on their now sealed inquiry, questions are […]
FISHERMAN RECALLED IN KOH TAO MURDER HUNT LAST CCTV OF HANNAH WITHERIDGE Thai police investigating the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the holiday island of Koh Tao now fear that that they may be a copycat attack of the rape and murder of a Reading University student on the nearby island of […]
THAI POLICE RECEIVE PRIME MINISTERIAL PRESSURE AND MIXED MESSAGES OVER MURDERS ON ‘PARADISE’ ISLAND Thai police appeared to be left without a murder suspect again last night – after three Burmese immigrant labourers were reportedly released from custody on the island of Koh Tao. And the big question is the investigation going the same way […]
‘FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT’ MOVE REJECTED PLUS – DEMO AT THE FCO AND DISPELLING A KIRSTY JONES MYTH Sue Jones the mother of Kirsty Jones, the 23-year-old gap year student who was murdered and raped in Chiang Mai 13 years ago appears to have come to a dead end in seeking closure on one of […]
Tomorrow August 10th will mark thirteen years since the murder and rape of Welsh backpacker Kirsty Jones, 23, in Chiang Mai. Currently Dyfed Powys Police are planning to re-interview the British backpackers who were staying at the Aree Guest House in Chiang Mai. Actually they do not have the authority to do so. They have […]
From Andrew Drummond, Koh Phangan, Samui Archipelago Thailand’s holiday islands will be made a ‘gun free zone within a year the region’ Governor Chatpong Chataraputi declared today. Following the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Stephen Ashton at a New Year’s beach party on the island of Koh Phangan all gun licenses will be checked, gun dealers […]
IT’S NOT RAPE IF SHE ‘HAD DINNER WITH A THAI MAN’? – (Updated 20.20) Clumsy attempts to mend Thailand’s image, after a video about the rape of a 19-year-old Dutch model in the Thai Province of Krabi went viral on the internet, looked set to backfire today. This follows a statement by Tourism Minister Chumphol […]
ANDREW DRUMMOND BANGKOK – August 10 2012 (Here’s a link to a detailed piece by Pim Kimasingki of Chiang Mai City life who held the fort for me on the day Kirsty’s body was discovered and was of great assistance throughout) Welsh police and the mother of Kirsty Jones who was murdered on this day […]
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.