HE’S GOT TO GO TO TRIAL. IT’S STILL ON GOOGLE! A DAY IN THE LIFE OF PATTAYA PROVINCIAL COURT The controversy about a picture published on the Facebook page of the mysterious Mangus Evans, who first appeared as a letter writer to the ‘Pattaya Times’ reached new heights in Court 6 of the Pattaya Provincial […]
-Andrew Drummond writing under the name Flying Sporran celebrates victory in Drew Noyes case. A charge of libel brought against a British journalist investigating what he described as ‘rogue’ foreign newspaper publishers has been dismissed by a court in Thailand. The Pattaya Provincial Court dismissed claims made by 57-year-old American Drew Walter Noyes, founder of […]
Flying Sporran’s Mid-Week Diary UNESCO TO PROBE FAKE AWARDS IN THAILAND Picture-Thailand Professionals I took time off this week to attend a conference in Pattaya about combatting foreign crime. Mayor Ittiphol Khonpluem put up a very good show appearing genuinely interested in combatting crimes against foreigners (and presumably by foreigners too). There was an impressive […]
It’s been a hell of a year and the judges have really been scratching their heads with the motley collection on offer for this year’s awards. There are of course some of the old contenders still there who unbelievably just keep popping up again and again. But there have been some delightful new arrivals on […]
U.N. OUTRAGE AS FORMER GANGSTER GETS FAKE UNESCO CROSS AND CERTIFICATE OF HONOUR! (Picture: Niels Colov centre in Copenhagen in the bad old days) The head of Pattaya City’s Foreign Police Volunteers and boss of Pattaya People newspaper, radio and television, has been honoured in a FAKE United Nations medal and certificate SCAM. Two Pattaya […]
FIRED! – SUPREMO OF PATTAYA TIMES GAGGED IN CUPID’S CITY OF LOVE (Picture -advert for Noyes’ Cupid Club in Pattaya. The picture was stolen. See note at end of story*) In a shock move the Chief Editor of the Pattaya Times American Drew Noyes has fired his Thai publisher. And he has taken an advert […]
The effrontery of it all! Drew Noyes, the American businessman first exposed for fraudulent dealings by the American newspaper the Wilmington Morning Star and more recently for other matters on this site, will tell a court tomorrow (Monday) that he has been libeled in a picture caption which read ‘Going to Jail’. He claims the […]
WHAT HAPPENED TO EXTORTION CASE? – ASK POLICE A planned scoop by Drew Noyes to discredit the ‘Flying Sporran’ backfired on him yesterday when he ended up facing criminal libel charges from a Thai national. Drew Noyes exclusive picture of Kanokrat and myself at Pattaya Police Station yesterday. Please share! He said. Happy to oblige […]
But he is gagged on oral sex claim. How a fictitious poster rose up to bite the Noyes butt Down at the courts (again) – by the Flying Sporran September 26 2012 Drew Noyes, the former bogus Pattaya lawyer turned bogus legal expert, and, as founder of the Pattaya Times, Thailand’s foremost insult to journalism, is suing […]
But can THIS posse help?! The flying sporran on a Pattaya showdown September 17 2012 Woke up today to start a bright new week, fresh from a good weekend in court in Pattaya, to find in the Bangkok Post a wonderfully confusing story. It involves a rag-tag army of expats in Pattaya meeting with officers of the Crime […]
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.