THAI POLICE FINALLY MOVE ON ALLEGED 3,500 MILLION BAHT (US$105 MILLION) FRAUD BY GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS. Nine years after a wealthy British barrister Steven Granville, 46, was found ‘left for dead by a roadside’ on the island of Phuket the Thai mother of his eight-year-old son has come out to testify in a ‘sordid political saga’ […]
JUDGES REVERSED TRIAL VERDICT FOR ‘SUPER PAYOUT’ FOR PRIME MINSTER’S ADVISOR & A COMMISSIONER FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE! AND ALL IT TOOK WAS THE DEATH OF A BRITISH BARRISTER. Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister and chief legal expert was the person who ordered the fixing of a trial verdict cementing a 3 billion baht (£74 […]
The sentencing of Briton Toby James Nelhams to eight months in jail yesterday in Phnom Penh for running an illegal online company in Cambodia – a boiler room fraud operation – came as something of a disappointment. Nelhams This is not because of the length of sentence. Nobody expected the Cambodian authorities to know what […]
‘Ha Ha! Very Funny,’ he said as gunman pulled trigger Police in Toronto are investigating the murder Simon Giannini, the brother of Frank Giannini, exposed on this site as one of Bangkok’s boiler room fraudsters. Simon Giannini was gunned down in the upmarket restaurant ‘Michael’s on Simcoe’ in downtown, Toronto, yesterday. The father of two […]
THE STORY WAS LIGHT ON FACTS – BUT THE LACK OF CREDIBILITY OF THE THAI POLICE MADE THIS ONE TRAVEL GLOBALLY. While the death of Belgian Elise Delamagne on the Thai island of Koh Tao has produced reams more negative publicity for Thailand this is a story I have kept well away from because the […]
COMMENT: HAND OVER THE FORENSIC LAB TO INDEPENDENT PROFESSIONALS The confirmation by the Court of Appeal of the conviction and death sentence of the two Burmese men, Wai Phyo and Zaw Lin, for the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the Thai island of Koh Tao will not have surprised many. The fact […]
Saturday, February 25, 2017 OFFICIALS TO PROBE MULTIPLE SHOOTING ON CP FISH FARM FAMILY, GERMAN BREWMASTER AND POLICE TO BE QUESTIONED The Thai National Human Rights Commission has begun a formal investigation into a murder in the Thai province of Chaiyaphum, the cover-up of which was exposed on this website. The TNHCR has appointed lawyers and […]
‘I AM UNABLE TO BE DIPLOMATIC OR PROFESSIONAL AT THIS POINT’ BROTHER TELLS EMBASSY JOIN ME IN MY NIGHTMARES! Security cameras in the Thai hotel, where the battered body of ‘beloved’ American university professor James Archibald Hughes was found, were not functioning. The six CCTV units had not recorded anything for more than two years, […]
INQUIRY STUMBLES OVER MULTIPLE WOUNDS OF PROFESSOR WHO POLICE SAID DIED OF ‘UNDERLYING DISEASE’ The Royal Thai police force, which appears to have passed off yet another possible murder of a foreigner with their familiar finding of ‘stopped breathing, heart stopped beating’ and ‘no foul play suspected’, now have their work cut out trying to […]
TRAILED BY THE GHOST OF HIS VICTIM Briton Michael Taylor, also known as ‘Mick the Dog’ and ‘Mick the Pom’ or simply ‘Mick the Murderer’ has taken time out on Facebook for people to respect the Thai bar girl he is alleged to have murdered at his apartment in Chalong Beach…some 12 years ago. A […]
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.