Not before time, Andy Hall, who has exposed exploitative conditions for migrant workers in Thailand many times, has finally become the victor in his long battle with the fruit canning company Natural Fruit. His case is an outstanding example of what happens when whistle-blowers expose exploitation and even crimes committed by powerful people and companies […]
STAR WITNESS IN LUKE COOK DEATH SENTENCE DRUGS CASE WON’T BE RETURNING FOR HIS THAI WIFE AND DAUGHTER EITHER. The African ‘wife’ of Douglas Shoebridge, the Australian volunteer policeman whose evidence led to the death sentence of fellow Aussie Luke Cook for drugs trafficking has pleaded guilty to trafficking in African women for the sex […]
Career fraudster Brian Goldie, aka Brian Goudie, has bounced back recently appearing at the Scottish Cup Final at Celtic Park celebrating his team’s win with his latest ‘wife’ from the poor Thai province of Surin. I was reminded of his return because last week the Bankruptcy Court in Bangkok issued a warrant for his […]
PRIME WITNESS WHOSE EVIDENCE SENT THREE TO DEATH ROW ACCUSED OF TRAFFICKING AFRICAN WOMEN TO THAI SEX TRADE By Andrew Drummond May 17 2019 The Bangkok Criminal Court has issued a warrant for the arrest of an Australian offshore worker and part-time volunteer for a Thai Police ‘Anti-Foreign Crime Unit’ for sex trafficking in Thailand. […]
‘WE’RE CHOKING TO DEATH! WHERE ARE YOU WHEN WE NEED YOU!’ Thai based journalist James Austin Farrell has pleaded with exiled foreign correspondents to write the truth about Thailand as the northern capital Chiang Mai topped the world’s pollution records. In an emotional Facebook post which turned into a spat with at least one […]
GOOD BYE Y’ALL! RIGHT-HAND MAN WHISTLEBLOWER ON THAI POLICE COMBATTING FOREIGN CRIME UNIT IS SILENCED Looking rather meek and fazed Joshua Pate, a former volunteer of an unorthodox police unit tackling foreign criminals stands under arrest for drug dealing in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Texan Pate, 44, who had been with the controversial unit involved in […]
‘I CAN SAFELY CALL YOU A CAREER CRIMINAL’ – cheque fraud victim American ‘flimflam’ man Drew Walter Noyes, notorious in Thailand as a property fraudster,and for posing as a lawyer until he fled while appealing a jail sentence for criminal extortion, is up to his old tricks again it seems back in Wilmington, North Carolina. […]
BUT THAILAND’S FRENCH ‘FLIC’ THIERRY PERENON WAITS IN THE WINGS Liverpool brothers Joseph and Gregory Mulhane have understandably been in a tizzy this week since they were arrested in Thailand on a warrant issued by the North West Regional Crime Unit in the United Kingdom on drugs dealing allegations. The two likely lads actually from […]
BRIAN GOUDIE LEAVES THAILAND TO FIND HIS HAPPY ENDING IN FALKIRK “And so, this soldier, this Scottish soldier Will wander far no more and soldier far no more” (Andy Stewart) HE POSED AS AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN TO GAIN CLIENTS TRUST HE INVENTED A LAW DEGREE AND POSED AS A BARRISTER AT COURT […]
Rape allegations, a fleeing Romanian Swami, drugs denials. Situation normal on Thai holiday island With the sudden departure of their Romanian Swami following numerous allegations of rape and sexual assault against his female followers the current leaders of the Agama tantric yoga school on the Thai island of Koh Phangan are involved in a major […]
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.