Hoss won’t be happy either* Some Brits have all the luck. Poor old Londoner Damon Wait has been caught again. And it’s happened on the day The Sun in London posed the question: ‘Will Thailand be the next country to bore of boozy Brits?’ Damon, who was caught last year with a bag of ‘China white’ heroin and a massive stash […]
BEHIND THE THAI POLICE DRAGNET ON CRIMINALS DISGUISING THEMSELVES AS FOOTBALLERS Two months ago, Thai Police announced a crackdown on foreign criminals in Thailand. Deputy Tourist Police commissioner Surachet Hakpan told the ‘Bangkok Post’ that these foreign criminals usually overstay their visas after entering the country, “disguising themselves as language teachers or football players”. The […]
THE THAI IMMIGRATION POLICE’S ‘GOOD GUYS IN – BAD GUYS OUT’ CAMPAIGN IS NOT FLOUNDERING. IT NEVER STARTED! While Thailand’s current military dictatorship is running on a ‘end corruption’ ticket there are signs that corruption in Thailand is rising to a new peak and the people the military are arresting seem to be in areas […]
In the land where people must a worship an ageing monarch with a predilection for skimpy tops and apparently stick-on Alice in Wonderland tattoos, who has a personal fortune topping US$90 billion, it’s comforting to know that corruption continues unabated and only the uniforms have changed. Today I have been listening to a hilarious recording […]
Thailand’s military Prime Minister General Prayuth Chan-Ocha has raged at the Thai media after a story in the Daily Mirror (London) described the Thai resort as the ‘world’s sex capital’. And he told local media in Thailand not to highlight the issue due to ‘risk of tarnishing the country’s image’ reported Prachathai News in Bangkok. […]
David Ames the boss of Harlequin Property and associated companies, who has allegedly defrauded victims out of several hundred million pounds has been charged with three counts of fraud. Ames, a former bankrupt double glazing salesman from Essex, UK, has been exposed multiple times on this site for his duff projects on the eastern seaboard, […]
Readers of newspapers in Thailand might be puzzled about what has happened in the investigation into the shooting of alleged boiler room fraudster Briton Tony Kenway outside the resort of Pattaya recently. The last reports coming from Bangkok stated that the mastermind another Brit, Toby James Nelhams, had been caught in Cambodia and was about […]
A career British child abuser, who was arrested twice in Thailand for suspected offences against children faces life in prison after admitting 45 offences against children, many abroad. In fact, of those offences, Mark Frost, also as Andrew Tracy, pleaded guilty to nine offences against children in Thailand between 2009 and 2012. The Thai victims […]
A Briton gunned down in Pattaya early today had a picture on his Facebook page meeting the King of Thailand. If the picture is genuine it begs the question why. And if it is not it could also answer the question of why he was murdered. But what is certain is that Tony Kenway, 39, […]
PLUS ‘WHO’S ON THE RUN?’ A South African businessman who was jailed for two weeks in Thailand and forbidden to leave the country for a year after demanding a refund from two prostitutes who did not provide any sex services has been acquitted by a court in the resort of Pattaya. Mark Berchowitz, who publishes […]
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.