Thai Police

STOP THAILAND’S QUALITY TESTING OF EXPORTS IF POLICE DO NOT COME CLEAN ON DNA, SAY EXPERTS Thai police are to be reported to an international regulator over their conduct in the investigation of two young Burmese men for the murders of Britons Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on a Thai holiday island. (EVENING STANDARD) International legal and […]

CONVICTED BANK ROBBER ARMED BY POLICE IN THAILAND FOR TERROR These are the moments a Thai policeman handed over a gun to a former ‘Double Category A’ British convict in the Thai resort of Hua Hin. The recipient was Jason Coghlan a convicted criminal and bank robbery and brother of the boss of one of […]

SOME OLD WOUNDS, SOME NEW ONES, COME TO THE FORE AS CONTROVERSIAL  MURDER TRIAL ROW CONTINUES As the row over the conviction and death sentences of two young Burmese for the murders of Britons Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the Thai cisland of Koh Tao continued to boil – it has become apparent that […]

FOREIGN JOURNALISTS UNDER ATTACK IN THAILAND- ARMY SAYS THEY COULD CAUSE INSTABILITY BUT ARMY LINKS TO INTERNATIONAL CRIME STAY STRONG Threat to seal off Maneeya Centre The Thai Military Government, which claims it is waging war on corruption in the country, appears to have created a smokescreen to cover its own illegal and definitely corrupt […]

GOLD AND CASH STASH WORTH BILLIONS FOUND IN HOME OF HEAD OF CENTRAL INVESTIGATION BUREAU The nerve centre of the Royal Thai Police was operated as some sort of Crime Incorporated according to reports today, as some of its most powerful officers were brought before the Bangkok criminal court on corruption charges. The former chief […]

It should go without saying – but never sign anything in Thailand you do not understand – particularly in a police station – but this needs to be continually repeated and applies to everything and includes property deals, company deals and whatever. The chances of being cheated are extremely high. But people are often pressured […]

BUT THAT’S GOOD NEWS! FLYING SPORRAN’S WEEKEND DIARY COMMENT Woraphan Tuvichien – Press Conference – TBS The Foreign Press corps has in the main put away its buckets and spades and stopped digging on the island of Koh Tao..A smattering remains.   I say ‘stopped digging’ but there was not much digging to do – […]

A CAUTIONARY TALE This is a story I cannot write. Or at least I cannot say where, when, and who were the victims.  It could put a British family in Thailand ‘on holiday’ in more danger than they already are.  But I can give you an outline and give this warning: “Be very careful about […]