Author: Andrew Drummond
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CASE CLOSED ON BRIT WHO DIED ALLEGEDLY WHILE BEING ‘SHAKEN DOWN’ BY POLICE ‘GANGSTERS’.
PROMISING YOUNG BRIT, 24, ‘TOOK HIS OWN LIFE’ ON SECOND DAY OF HOLIDAY IN THAILAND. USED GOOGLE TRANSLATE TO ANSWER POLICE QUESTIONS. Khao Sarn Road Police ‘wanted 400,000 Thai baht’ – claim Thai police yesterday declined to be questioned on the death of a young Briton while in their custody in Bangkok on the second…
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Justice in Thailand is how much money can we get’ – Tim ‘Sharky’ Ward
SHARKY’S PEACE PACT WITH POLICE SOUNDS SHAKY A short film showing Tim ‘Sharky’ Ward’s battle with police in Pattaya has been put up on the net by Australian based ‘Sneaky TV’. The quote above is an abbreviated quote from an interview which forms a basis for the film. The film pulls no punches, unlike Sharky,…
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DELEGATION ASKS THAI POLICE ABOUT ‘REVENGE PORN MAN’ AND PALS
‘The international community is watching the activities of these people in disbelief” Police in Thailand were today asked again to take a closer look at the activities of fake barrister Brian Goudie, who opened a legal firm in Thailand called Alba Laws after being sentenced to six years in Australia for theft. Goudie right. Not…
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THREE PATTAYA FOREIGNERS TO ANSWER INTERNET WARRIOR DAMAGES SUIT
INTERNET WARRIORS SUED FOR 5 MILLION BAHT Hanks, Noyes and Goudie, photoshopped as the ‘Three Stooges’ Drew Walter Noyes – an American in Pattaya, who is appealing a two year jail sentence for extortion, together with David Hanks, another Pattaya resident and former brothel owner in Melbourne were today given until December 9th to answer…
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SPECTRE! CRIME SWEEP IN BANGKOK NETS TOP RANKING POLICE
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…
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FOREIGN OFFICE FAILED TO GIVE PROPER SUPPORT TO BRITS IN TROUBLE – REPORT
THAILAND SINGLED OUT IN SHOOTING CASE IN BAD WEEK FOR FCO. Britain’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office has been condemned by MPs for failing to offer acceptable levels of help to Britons in trouble abroad, according to a report in today’s Observer. The Foreign Office which has had its budget substantially slashed has even failed to…
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A BAD WEEK FOR THAI POLICE
British Consul Sounds Off – Sharky Sounds Off – Verapat Sounds Off AS THAI POLICE APPEAR TO PROTECT CRIMINALS AND PROSECUTE THE INNOCENT This week was again not a good week for the Thai Police and the country’s justice system with several people sounding off both at home and abroad. Carpenter In Phuket British Consul…
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IS THAI TOURIST AUTHORITY RUNNING ‘ I HATE THAILAND’ VIDEO UP THE FLAGPOLE?
CHARMING THAI COMMERCIAL GETS MIXED REVIEWS “O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us!” – Rabbie Burns The video short ‘I hate Thailand’ commissioned by the Tourist Authority of Thailand to counter the recent negative publicity the country has been receiving, has also garnered a lot of attention…
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THE LM FIASCO – ASIC BEARS ITS GUMS
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES IN FUND MANAGEMENT. The Australian Securities and Investment Commission has at last started to take proceedings against LM Investment Management which has taken down hundreds of millions in people’s pensions. But the victims are not exactly going to be thrilled with the news. What many see are out and out criminal offences ASIC…
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‘I’m just a sweetie really’ – The terror of Pattaya Police reforms
REFORMED LESS AGGRESSIVE SHARKY BECOMES PATTAYA AGONY AUNT In with the new reformed Tim ‘Sharky’ Ward Today comes the not unexpected news that Tim ‘Sharky’ Ward – who has been besieging Pattaya Police station and accusing officers of attempting to fit him up with drugs and stealing a fortune in gold from his apartment, has…
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KOH TAO PROSECUTOR’S LESSON ON FAIRNESS
EVEN HANDED SAMUI STYLE The public prosecutor in Koh Samui – the same man prosecuting the two Burmese for the murders of Hannah Witheridge – is a man of two minds – according to an answer he has supplied to the Thai National Human Rights Commission. In the case of Jack Hansen-Bartel, who was brutally…
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KOH TAO MURDERS – WILL THAI POLICE BE ASKED TO INVESTIGATE THEIR OWN TORTURES?
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION TO POLICE: ‘ANSWER TORTURE CHARGES PLEASE’ One of many tasteless pictures appearing on Thai Facebook pages The two young Burmese men charged with the murder of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the Thai island of Koh Tao were hit, suffocated with plastic bags, and threatened they would be drowned if they…
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THAI ELEPHANT TERROR RIDE
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…
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THAILAND – ‘HOST TO INTERNATIONAL CRIME SYNDICATES AWASH WITH DESPISED FOREIGNERS’
One of the worst scandals in the annals of tourism’ – Daily Mail Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary As Thailand takes some hard knocks from a book about to be published called ‘Destination: Deadly Thailand’ – described by the Daily Mail as exposing ‘one of the worst scandals in the annals of modern tourism’ – some…
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EUROPEAN UNION CONDEMNS ABUSE OF THAILAND’S CRIMINAL LIBEL LAWS
EUROPEAN UNION DELEGATION TO THAILAND Press Release Local EU Statement on the increasing misuse of criminal defamation laws in Thailand The European Union Delegation issues the following statement in agreement with the EU Heads of Mission in Thailand. Bangkok, 14 November 2014 The EU is committed to promoting and protecting the freedom of opinion and…