Another Thai Elephant Tragedy – A 36-year-old Scotsman was reported today to have been gored to death by an elephant while on an elephant ‘safari’ on the Thai island of Koh Samui. Sadly he island English language web newspaper is quoting one report saying that the Scotsman had teased the elephant with bananas. This was unfortunatly followed quickly on the …
‘NO MAFIA’ CLAIM ON MURDER HIT THAI ISLANDS GOES UP IN SMOKE
GUNMEN SPRAY RESORT WITH BULLETS – JUST ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE. While a family back home still does not have the body of Luke Miller – found drowned at the Sunset pool bar on Koh Tao earlier this month – independent but non-identifiable reports to this site again say that it has ‘extensive injuries’. And they are not, insist the …
SAMUI ASSAULT MAN SINGS TO ALLEVIATE WORLD POVERTY – EXCEPT TRUCULENT POOR AUSSIES
‘NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE -NO MATTER WHERE YOU COME FROM’ (except Melbourne) Flying Sporran’s Weekend |Dairy Raymond Chang – one of the two Chinese Americans of the Shanghai American School who have been charged with the vicious attack on Jack Hansen-Bartel in Koh Samui last year has made a video to promote China’s friendship with the United States – …
INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE IN THAILAND – AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
Jack Hansen-Bartel, with mask, behind Andy Hall, with defence lawyer at court today It seemed a sober moment, perhaps even a warning to the media just as the controversial murder trial of the accused killers of British backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller was due to start on the Thai island of Koh Samui. “The Lawyers Council of Thailand is …
IS THIS THE WORST COURT IN THAILAND?
JUDGES SET NEW LOW IN THAI JUSTICE SYSTEM Just when you think things cannot get worse – the Thai justice system never disappoints. Details are now coming out about the recent incarceration of Jack Hansen-Bartel – the young Australian former pupil of the New International School of Thailand – who was beaten up apparently by two young American-Chinese rich kids …
HEAR YE! HEAR YE! SCHOOL’S OUT AND THE COURT IS NOW IN SESSION
THE AMERICAN OR CHINESE WAY? Chang Just been down to my local mall to have a coffee with Annie Hansen – the mother of Jack Hansen-Bartel who was seriously attacked on Koh Samui last year and has recently undergone more corrective surgery. If any case is worth observing to see how the Thai justice system works, or indeed does not, …
WIN US$1000! from self appointed ‘Master of Ceremonies’. Two jailed in Bangkok on lese majeste charges
Bangkok Post Two young graduates were jailed for five years to, reduced to two and a half because they pleaded guilty, on lèse majesté charges in Bangkok. The news travelled quickly around the world but what seemed to come across was how dignified the students have actually behaved. Patiwat Saraiyaem, 23, and Porntip Mankong had been accused of insulting the …
PIMP AND FAKE LAWYER GO MISSING – AS JOURNALIST PREPARES TO PAY BAIL
SCOTS WHA HAE – BEEN AWAY Hanks and Goudie with their lawyer Scotsmen Brian Goudie, a phony lawyer, and David Hanks, a former pimp in Melbourne failed to appear in court in Koh Samui to press criminal libel and computer crimes charges against British journalist Andrew Drummond – and neither did their lawyer. Goudie, from Falkirk, who is also now …
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE ‘FRAME UP’ ON SAMUI ARCHIPELAGO
AUSSIE SCHOLARSHIP STUDENT WAS ATTACKED – BUT NOW HE FACES CHARGES BROUGHT BY ‘RICH’ KIDS. IT’S THE SAMUI ‘HUNGER GAMES’ SAYS MUM. The Thai National Human Rights Commission is to investigate a plea for justice by a young Australian student, who claims he is being framed by police in Thailand’s Samui Archipelago – the scene of the brutal murders of …
KOH TAO MURDERS – HE WENT THIS WAY – NO HE WENT THAT AWAY
CONFUSED ABOUT WHAT’S HAPPENING IN THE KOH TAO MURDER TRIAL? HERE’S A ROUGH GUIDE No it was this way! No it was that a’way! A defendant writes Thailand’s Justice system will come under considerable scrutiny during the trial of the two young Burmese men if foreign observers are allowed and foreign police are also able to come and ‘liaise’. But …