Koh Samui

Various Thai media and the Daily Mail using its vast reserve of internet trawling online reporters have been running a story this week about 33-year-old Benjamin Robert Simpson an alleged wealthy crypto currency dealer who, while high on methamphetamine indulged in a shooting spree from his speedboat off the Thai island of Koh Samui. The […]

BUT DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS HANDS FILE TO TAX MAN AFTER DIPLOMATIC RUMBLINGS Norbert Verweyen the rogue property developer on Koh Samui, who appears to have spent an inordinate amount of time terrorising his buyers with Computer Crime Act cases and others, appears to be beating a tactical retreat. NORBERT (TOP LEFT) WITH SUTHEP (FRONT […]

A 36-year-old Scotsman was reported today to have been gored to death by an elephant while on an elephant ‘safari’ on the Thai island of Koh Samui. The island English language newspaper is quoting one report saying that the Scot had teased the elephant with bananas. This was followed quickly on the report by comments […]

GUNMEN SPRAY RESORT WITH BULLETS – JUST ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE. While a family back home still does not have the body of Luke Miller – found drowned at the Sunset pool bar on Koh Tao earlier this month – independent but non-identifiable reports to this site again say that it has ‘extensive injuries’. And […]

‘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 […]

Jack Hansen-Bartel, with mask,  behind Andy Hall, with defence lawyer at court today It seemed a sober moment, perhaps even a warning to the media just as the  controversial murder trial of the accused killers of British  backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller was due to start on the Thai island of Koh Samui. “The […]

JUDGES SET NEW LOW IN THAI JUSTICE SYSTEM Just when you think things cannot get worse – the Thai justice system never disappoints. Details are now coming out about the recent incarceration of Jack Hansen-Bartel – the young Australian former pupil of the New International School of Thailand – who was beaten up apparently by […]

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 […]

Bangkok Post Two young graduates were jailed for five years to, reduced to two and a half because they pleaded guilty, on lèse majesté charges in Bangkok.  The news travelled quickly around the world but what seemed to come across was how dignified the students have actually behaved. Patiwat Saraiyaem, 23, and Porntip Mankong had […]

SCOTS WHA HAE – BEEN AWAY Hanks and Goudie with their lawyer Scotsmen Brian Goudie, a phony lawyer, and David Hanks, a former pimp in Melbourne failed to appear in court in Koh Samui to press criminal libel and computer crimes charges against British journalist Andrew Drummond – and neither did their lawyer. Goudie,  from […]