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Andrew Drummond

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THAI JUDGES FIXED 3 BILLION BAHT COURT CASE – ‘ON DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER’S ORDERS’

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 […]

BRITISH LAWYER WAS ‘MURDERED’ AND CLEANED OUT OF MILLIONS ON PHUKET – claim

‘THAI GOVERNMENT SHOULD APOLOGISE, INVESTIGATE DEATH OF STEVEN GRANVILLE, AND RETURN THE MISSING MILLIONS’   An anonymous group called ‘Thailand’s Untouchables’  has issued a Facebook appeal for justice in the case of British barrister Steven Granville who they claim was murdered before being robbed of millions on the holiday island of Phuket. The group claims that Granville, […]

WILL THE BBC’S CORRESPONDENT BE IN COURT UNTIL RETIREMENT?

The BBC’s Jonathan Head, who is being sued for what a lot more foreign correspondents in Thailand should have been doing for years, is finding out just what it means to get involved in Thailand’s controversial legal system. Jonathan confronts lawyer in Phuket. Jonathan, who took up the cases of Briton’s Ian Rance and Irishman […]

MICK ‘THE MURDERER’ CALLS FOR RESPECT FOR THE DEAD

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 […]

BENT LAWYER TAKES ON THE BBC BUREAU CHIEF UNDER COMPUTER CRIME ACT

CAUGHT BANG TO RIGHTS – BUT WAIT -THIS IS THE THAI JUDICIAL SYSTEM BBC South East Asia Correspondent Jonathan Head and two foreigners, who were massively being defrauded in Thailand, are being sued by one of Thailand’s infamous bent lawyers for libel under Thailand’s Computer Crime Act.                 […]

THAILAND UNDER ATTACK AGAIN FOR MISTREATMENT OF MIGRANT HOTEL WORKERS

NICE TOILETS FOR THAI STAFF  BUT S%$@&HOLES! FOR BURMESE! Fresh after damning reports of Thailand’s murderous treatment of foreign labour in the fishing industry, the human trafficking of Rohingya refugees, and ill treatment of Burmese in the pineapple industry a Swedish watch dog groups have now published a scathing attack on how Thai hoteliers treat […]

KICK ‘EM WHEN THEY ARE DOWN

 PACK ATTACK CAUGHT ON VIDEO A long standing Thai practice of ‘pack attacks’ against foreigners in the country’s night life industry has been highlighted again today in a video of a vicious attack by night club guards in Phuket. The club is not named in the video but is in Patong Beach – but it […]

BBC Tackles Systematic Fraud in Thailand

‘THERE IS NO LAW ON PHUKET!’ A long awaited report by the BBC’s South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head went to air yesterday on BBC2 in the UK. It is difficult to guess what affect it will have if any; but it was good to see the BBC dealing with frauds against foreigners in Thailand, […]

AMERICAN ‘HERO’ WHO DISAPPEARED IN THE ANDAMAN SEA HAD HIS OWN PROPERTY COMPANY

BROTHER-IN-LAW ‘BROKE KNEE CAPS FOR THE MAFIA’ The offer of a US$5000 reward this week for information about the death of American serviceman and Iraq veteran Josh Devine in the Andaman Sea in April comes as the family back home fails to get any closure on the mystery. Joshua Devine, 36, a ‘Soldier of the […]

The Vard Saga Comes to Blows in a Bangkok Lawyers Office

CAUGHT TRYING TO GET FILES BACK FROM LAWYER – VARD IS CARTED OFF BY POLICE. The controversy over Jessie Vard, the young Irish girl who has been exposing Thai corruption on the internet after her dad was robbed of seven houses in Phuket, came to blows yesterday in a lawyer’s office in Bangkok. Former Dublin […]