Thailand

YOUNG BURMESE KEEPING UP THEIR SPIRITS IN JAIL IN KOH SAMUI Zaw Lin and Wei Phyo, the two Burmese migrant workers being held for the murders of Britons Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on Koh Tao are reported today to be keeping up their spirits in prison in Koh Sanui, While it is not the […]

HUMAN TRAFFICKING: ‘SHOCKINGLY INADEQUATE VICTIM PROTECTION, WEAK ENFORCEMENT, ENDEMIC CORRUPTION!’ Despite claims by the Thai military government that it had taken sufficient steps to have the country removed from the United States ‘Tier 3’ list of worst offenders in the world for human trafficking – the country has done absolutely nothing to improve its reputation […]

SHOW US YOUR PROOF – LAWYERS SAY. “All Brit wanted was ‘love’” Lawyers representing Shane Looker, the 45-year-old Briton accused of murdering a Bangkok prostitute, chopping up her body, putting it in a suitcase and throwing it into a river have reacted furiously to an attempt by Thai Police to put out an Interpol Red […]

EXPAT TEACHER HAD MASSIVE CHILD PORN STASH A 47-year-old Briton, described as a former head teacher at a school in Thailand, has walked free from a court on charges relating to the possession of some 52,000 pornographic images of children. Sean Jamieson, of Middleborough Road, South Bank, had left the images on a hard disc […]

#JohnFintanBrett ALLEGED ROMANCE WITH POLICEMAN’S DAUGHTER A former school supervisor and goalkeeper for Sligo Rovers FC has been found dead in north east Thailand near the Cambodia under suspicious circumstances. John Fintan Brett, 68, whose named also featured in the  Sligo College expenses scandal  trials was found in a house in the provincial capital of […]

  British journalist Andrew Drummond has quit Thailand after 25 years covering Southeast Asia from the Thai capital Bangkok. The primary reasons were a direct threat to the safety of himself and his three children from foreign criminals in Thailand working in liaison with the Thai Police and Thailand’s Crime Computer Crime Act, which he […]

PLUS – COVERING UP A SUSPICIOUS DEATH ON KOH PHANGAN. Shot three times on the bed but where’s the blood? And why did things in the crime scene keep moving? Apologies to readers for the lack of pace in recent stories. That’s because I have had to go and spend time researching.  I have been […]

ELEPHANT ON RAMPAGE WITH MUM AND 8-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER A woman tourist and her young daughter were taken on a terrifying three kilometer ride on the back of a raging elephant which first trampled its mahout to death, Thai television reported tonight. Posing happily at the start of the ride – PICTURE ASTV The woman and […]

OH NO! – THAI POLICE RETHINK PLAN TO ASK PEOPLE TO REPORT CRIME ONLINE. AMERICAN ‘BLACKMAILER’  RAN CRIME SUPPRESSION AND CRIME REPORTING SITE FROM ‘LAW OFFICE’ IN SIN CITY! A joint venture between Thai Police and an American businessmen to catch foreign criminals has had to be abandoned after the American was found guilty of […]

WHO IS WATCHING THAILAND’S ‘MEDICAL HUB’ CLINICS? The death of 24-year-old Joy Williams while under anaesthetic at the SP Clinic in Lard Prao, Bangkok, continues to get a lot of space in the British Press – not least because a lot of Britons come to Bangkok and other parts of Thailand as part of ‘medical […]