Pattaya

SO CALLED ‘TRUE-BRIT’ WAS MOTIVATED BY GREED   Bar manager Kim Fletcher – the Chiang Mai Brit (pixelated) and Bill Haines ‘Foreign Secretary’ at Jameson’s Pattaya A former British bar owner in Chiang Mai is today named as one of the ‘bankers’ for a range of  ‘boiler rooms’ in Thailand known as the ‘Wolves of Bangkok’. […]

AND IN COURT 703 ARMY GENERAL STANDS RIGIDLY TO ATTENTION AS HE ADVOCATES NATIONAL HAPPINESS AND RECONCILIATION WITH PROMOTERS OF NEW PATTAYA GENTLE’S MAN CLUB (SIC) In a day the likes of which Bangkok Criminal Court will have never seen before, three whining foreigners failed in their attempts, sometimes farcical often comical to get criminal […]

With three young Thai women giving evidence at the weekend the prosecution is expected to close its case against Sean Tinsley, 45, for the attempted murder of Adam Pickles, former head of English at the International School of the Regents, on Thailand’s eastern seaboard on June 10th. Tinsley appears to have revised his witness list […]

AND GETS AN UNBEATABLE SENTENCE A British ‘share dealer’ was yesterday found guilty of cocaine possession but fined just 5000 baht in Pattaya Provincial Court. William Haines, 47, from Manchester, was arrested after police from Bangkok, raided his home two months ago in Pattaya. The operation was conducted by police of the Narcotics Suppression Division […]

An inquest is to be held in Britain into a British prisoner who was allegedly beaten to death in Nong Plalai prison, Pattaya – just days after he was admitted for stealing a motorcycle. Sean Patrick Flanagan, 57, was arrested on March 21st in the resort on Thailand’s eastern seaboard, for stealing a Yamaha motorcycle […]

Pic: ‘Booked already?’ – A prison cell? Fake lawyer Brian Goudie will star in the sixth programme in a 13 part crime series called ‘Serial Swindlers’ produced by Make Productions for worldwide syndication. Goudie, currently on trial for fraud and embezzlement with a 7.9 million civil judgment against him, is renowned in Thailand for his […]

THAILAND HIGHLIGHTED AS PEOPLE TRAFFICKING HUB – AGAIN Police in Thailand today questioned travel agents in the resort of Pattaya after it was revealed that tickets for two passengers who used fake passports to board the ill-fated Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 were sold by them. Police Colonel Supachai Phuykaeokam head of Pattaya Police confirmed that […]

AND NOW HE’S A CASE STUDY IN A PATTAYA LEGAL SEMINAR ON LIBEL! FLYING SPORRAN’S MID-WEEK DIARY The news of the jailing of British journalist Andrew Drummond by Drew Noyes, the American former publisher of the now defunct Pattaya Times, who is currently on trial for extortion, may be slightly exaggerated. Drummond was this week […]

ANGRY AMERICAN DENIES HIS MOBILE PHONE Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary People in court held back their titters but even the judge managed a smile as angry American Drew Noyes disowned what was claimed to be his mobile phone and number and said it belonged to staff and everybody used it. Noyes, incidentally who has put […]

PAY HER 7.9 MILLION – (IF SHE CAN ENFORCE IT)  – Civil Court PAY US 400,000 NOW! AND YOU’RE A FREE MAN.  – Criminal Appeal Court. Fake Scots lawyer Brian Goudie was ordered to pay US$242,517 or 7.9 million baht in a civil judgment at Pattaya Provincial Court today for cheating an American woman out […]