Author: Andrew Drummond
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WARRANT ISSUED FOR PATTAYA PROPERTY SCAMMER IN CARIBBEAN
BOSS WITH PHONY PROJECTS ON THAI EASTERN SEABOARD FLEES BY BOAT A warrant of arrest has been issued in St Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean for Briton David Ames the boss of Harlequin Property, who, together with fellow Brit Richard Haughton, swindled hundreds of people who had invested in properties on Thailand’s eastern…
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HERE’S HOW TO GET THE REFERENDUM MESSAGE ACROSS MR. CAMERON!
SIMPLE – JUST JAIL THE OPPOSITION THAI-STYLE Thailand’s military dictator General Prayuth Chan-Ocha who has jailed many dissenters and is now making undisguised and widespread threats to jail more – has firmly targeted journalists in a bid to push through a new constitution which will drag the country back 100 years. The latest arrest of…
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‘GOOD GUYS IN BAD GUYS OUT’ ARE THAI IMMIGRATION AUTHORITIES JOKING?
BAD GUYS WIN IN THAI DRIVE TO CLEAR UP UNDESIREABLE ALIENS If military intelligence seems a contradictory term, then Thai military intelligence must be up there in the stratosphere. Following the military take-over of the country’s premier sex resort city of Pattaya a report to ‘Military Circle 14’ has resulted in the announcement of the…
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FINNS FLY IN FOR COURT SHOWDOWN OVER MIGRANT WORKERS AT ‘NATURAL FRUIT’
The executive director of Finnwatch, the consumer group which produced a critical report on the Thai pineapple canning company ‘Natural Fruit’ citing its treatment of migrant Burmese labour, is to fly in from Helsinki to Bangkok to the trial of British team member Andy Hall later this week. In the long running farce in which…
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KOH TAO DEFENDERS ANSWER WEB ATTACK AS THEY PREPARE FOR NEXT ROUND IN BATTLE FOR BURMESE
CLEARING CONFUSION AS FACTIONS BATTLE IN THE KOH TAO MURDER CASE The defence team in the Koh Tao murder case has denied what it describes as damaging claims made in a story on the Thai Visa forum in Thailand – sourced from the Samui Times website. Lawyers for the young Burmese men Wai…
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THAI POLICE LAB USED IN KOH TAO MURDER DNA ANALYSIS WAS NOT ACCREDITED
SCOTLAND YARD BACKED A THAI POLICE INVESTIGATION CONDUCTED IN AN UNQUALIFIED FORENSICS LAB. AND ITS DOWN TO THOSE ‘CHILLING EFFECTS’ AGAIN The police laboratory used to conduct the controversial DNA analysis on the savage murders of Britons Hannah Witheridge and David Miller was not internationally accredited to carry out the work according to the director…
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BEWARE THAILAND’S SHAM TOURIST COURTS
16 2 THAI FAST TRACKED JUSTICE FOR TOURISTS JUST ANOTHER MYTH A Danish tourist falsely arrested for allegedly attempting an insurance scam after losing his wallet on a night out was jailed, extorted out of cash, and has only been allowed to leave the country after being acquitted at the end of his six-month ordeal.…
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FAMOUS EXTORTIONIST NOW A ‘SPECIAL FORCES TRAINED MARKSMAN’ WITH A ‘WHITE HOUSE INVITE’
Monday, June 20, 2016 He’s been playing with guns and boasting about his senator approved trip to the White House. He boasts he will return to Thailand to-reunite with the children he left behind, but shows not signs of backing up his claims. But still the noticeably absent publisher of the now defunct Pattaya Times…
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SOPHISTICATED BRITISH ‘BERK’ ARRESTED BY THAI POLICE
Police in Somerset have been in touch with police in Bangkok over the case of Mark Hallett – a British scammer first exposed on this site as one of the new ‘sophisticated berks of Bangkok’. Hallett, 48, skipped the UK while facing 11 fraud charges related to a Ponzi’ investment scheme. His father was a…
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WHY KOH TAO MURDER CASE SHOULD BE THROWN OUT
BUT DEFENCE SHY OVER BRINGING THAILAND’S POLICE LABORATORY INTO DISREPUTE A summary of the appeal by the ‘Koh Tao Two’ against conviction and the death sentence for the murders of British tourists Hannah Witheridge and David Miller appears to totally demolish a sloppy prosecution case in the controversial trial in Thailand. The appeal highlights blatant…