Andrew Drummond

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  • ANOTHER BRIT DEATH ON THAI ISLAND OF KOH TAO

    ANOTHER BRIT DEATH ON THAI ISLAND OF KOH TAO

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    From mushroom shakes to strawberry daquiris another Brit ‘living the life’ ends it in controversial Thai tourist destination. Another Briton has been found dead on the Thai holiday island of Koh Tao and has been named as Luke Miller of Newport, Isle of Wight.  Miller is reported to have died yesterday after jumping into the…

  • ANTI-CORRUPTION WHITEWASH IN THAILAND IS ADDING ‘INSULT TO INJURY’ – Human Rights Watch

    ANTI-CORRUPTION WHITEWASH IN THAILAND IS ADDING ‘INSULT TO INJURY’ – Human Rights Watch

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    Human Rights Wast has condemned Thailand’s Anti-Corruption Commission for dismissing a malfeasance case against former government officials for their role in the orders to shoot at demonstrators during the 2010 crackdown on the ‘Red Shirts’. And HRW has accused the current government of ‘airbrushing’ Thai history. As pretty much all of Thai history is airbrushed…

  • TWENTY FIVE YEARS OF MURDER IN THAILAND PART I

    TWENTY FIVE YEARS OF MURDER IN THAILAND PART I

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    THAILAND’S MURDER HISTORY FROM A BRITISH FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT’S VIEW  INTRODUCTION: Following the controversial death sentences on the young Burmese men Wai Phyo and Zaw Lin in Koh Samui for the murders last year on Koh Tao of Hannah Witheridge and Davild Miller, I have been asked to detail the controversial cases where flagrant breaches of…

  • “WE WILL CATCH THE CYBER MEN” say Thai Police under attack for Koh Tao murder investigation

    “WE WILL CATCH THE CYBER MEN” say Thai Police under attack for Koh Tao murder investigation

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    “It’s no problem. Thai Police are excellent’ “No they could not find a murderer in the same room” – says wife of victim in unsolved murder. “We have killed J(T)awad” announcement on SMS – two hours after murder but before police were called”. ONLY IN THAILAND The technical know-how of the Royal Thai Police subject…

  • KOH TAO VERDICT BRINGS OUT VICTIMS OF THAI JUSTICE

    KOH TAO VERDICT BRINGS OUT VICTIMS OF THAI JUSTICE

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    SOME OLD WOUNDS, SOME NEW ONES, COME TO THE FORE AS CONTROVERSIAL  MURDER TRIAL ROW CONTINUES As the row over the conviction and death sentences of two young Burmese for the murders of Britons Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the Thai cisland of Koh Tao continued to boil – it has become apparent that…

  • THE KOH TAO MURDERS – IF THE VERDICT WAS WRONG TIME WILL NOT TELL

    THE KOH TAO MURDERS – IF THE VERDICT WAS WRONG TIME WILL NOT TELL

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    By the six o’clock BBC evening news in London yesterday the mews that Wai Phyo and Zaw Lin had been found guilty and sentenced to death for the Koh Tao murders was well down the agenda, coming after a car crash with one fatality, floods in Cumbria and a bus crash with no fatalities. Any…

  • THAILAND UNDER ATTACK AGAIN FOR MISTREATMENT OF MIGRANT HOTEL WORKERS

    THAILAND UNDER ATTACK AGAIN FOR MISTREATMENT OF MIGRANT HOTEL WORKERS

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    NICE TOILETS FOR THAI STAFF  BUT S%$@&HOLES! FOR BURMESE! Fresh after damning reports of Thailand’s murderous treatment of foreign labour in the fishing industry, the human trafficking of Rohingya refugees, and ill treatment of Burmese in the pineapple industry a Swedish watch dog groups have now published a scathing attack on how Thai hoteliers treat…

  • FAST TRACKED! TOURIST COURT COMMON ASSAULT CASE TO BE HEARD…NEXT SUMMER

    FAST TRACKED! TOURIST COURT COMMON ASSAULT CASE TO BE HEARD…NEXT SUMMER

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    WHEN YOU’RE SMILING – THE WHOLE WORLD SMILES WITH YOU! In a remarkable tribute to the failure of Thailand’s ‘fast track’ tourist courts on the Thai holiday island of Koh Samui the trial of two Chinese Americans charged with the vicious attack of Australian Jack Hansen-Bartel in June 2014 has been postponed until the American…

  • กลิ่นเหม็นคาวปลาจาก จังหวัดชัยภูมิ

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    (Thai version of Chaiyaphum Murder case) กลิ่นเหม็นคาวปลาจาก จังหวัดชัยภูมิ วันพุธ ที่4 พฤศจิกายน 2558 หนึ่งฆาตกรรมที่เอเชียตะวันออกเฉียงใต้ สุนัขตาย50ตัว และทิ้งชาวต่างชาติไว้ที่รกร้างแห้งหนึ่งในประเทศไทย เมื่อสองปีที่ผ่านมามีชาวต่างชาติโดนยิงที่บ่อปลาใน จังหวัดชัยภูมิ และตำรวจในประเทศไทยไม่ได้ช่วยเหลือหรือติดตามผู้กระทำความมาดำเนินคดี ถึงแม่ว่ามีหลักฐานชัดเจนจาก DNA และพยาน สัปดาห์นี้มีพยานถูกคุ้มครองจาก DSI ในกรุงเทพมหานครหลังจากที่โดนข่มขู่มา แต่ภรรยาของชาวต่างชาติ ที่เกิดในประเทศไทย สัญชาติ สหรัฐอเมริกา บอกว่ามันคือการจัดฉากขึ้นมา และไม่ได้หวังว่าการตรวจสอบความจริงจะเกิดขึ้น คดีนี้อยู่ในความคุ้มครองของ สำนักงานคณะกรรมการสิทธิมนุษยชนแห่งชาติ และเขาให้เวลา     6 เดือนที่จะทำสำเร็จ แต่ 4 เดือนผ่านไปแล้วคดียังไม่มีความคืบหน้าใดๆ ถึงแม้ว่า ทนายจะไปสอบปากคำพยานจากที่เกิดเหตุและไปที่สำนักงานอัยการ จังหวัดชัยภูมิ แต่หาแฟ้มคดีไม่พบและคาดว่ารูปถ่ายถูกทำลายไปแล้ว และตอนนี้ยังพยายามค้นหาแฟ้มคดีอยู่               นายทองพูน บุญเงิน                              นาย Uwe Seeliger Uwe Seeliger จาก 170,000 บาท สำหรับสินสอด…

  • ‘WE BLINKED AND IT WAS GONE’

    ‘WE BLINKED AND IT WAS GONE’

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    Flying Sporran’s Diary The Sea Shepherd organisation  is  reportedly re-embarking on another crusade against the fishing trawler Taishan which earlier this year had Thai officials blinking as its crew reloaded its catch (so its reported) and slipped its moorings while its Captain and crew were allegedly ‘under arrest’. The Sea Shepherd’s Steve Irwin This trawler…

  • DON’T DEMONSTRATE! WE’VE GOT YOUR MOTHER

    DON’T DEMONSTRATE! WE’VE GOT YOUR MOTHER

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    THAI MILITARY SENSITIVE ABOUT CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS Thailand’s military government, which is plagued with its own corruption problems having taken power on ant-corruption pledges, is now being accused of detaining the mother of a student leader to stop him demonstrating. Sirawath Seritiwat said he will demonstrate ta Rajabhakti Park tomorrow- the park is a military project…

  • AUSSIE MUM PROTESTS CORRUPTION AT THAI PARLIAMENT

    AUSSIE MUM PROTESTS CORRUPTION AT THAI PARLIAMENT

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    – LOVE, COMPASSION, TOLERANCE –  ARE WE INCLUDED? An Aussie mother stages a sit in at the Thai Parliament to complain about rampant corruption in Thailand. The victim is her son Jack Hansen-Bartel a former studentsof the New International School  in Thailand (NIST) who was savagely beaten in a police controlled party bar in Koh…

  • DISCOUNT LEGAL SERVICES – SAY LAW FIRM BOSSES SENTENCED TO JAIL

    DISCOUNT LEGAL SERVICES – SAY LAW FIRM BOSSES SENTENCED TO JAIL

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    DISCOUNT LEGAL SERVICES FOR FOREIGNERS CUT PRICE EXTORTION? Sometimes you really have to laugh.  Just a day after warrents of arrest were ordered for fake American lawyer Drew Noyes and his Thai sidekick Wanrapa Boonsu, who were sentenced to jail for extortion, up crops Wanrapa again advertising their  One-Stop Legal Services in Pattaya, Thailand at…

  • THAI POLICE BRIBERY – THE ‘JESPER’ BACK STORY

    THAI POLICE BRIBERY – THE ‘JESPER’ BACK STORY

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    JUST HOW SHOCKED WERE THE PATTAYA POLICE? Readers of the Bangkok Post and even Khao Sod might have been given the impression that police down in Pattaya were shocked at the activities of Jesper Kongerskov or Hansen or Leon Christiansen as he calls himself now. Danish Jesper, a former Pattaya Volunteer policeman, was charged in…

  • THE ULTIMATE SEX TOURIST TAKES HIS FINAL BOW

    THE ULTIMATE SEX TOURIST TAKES HIS FINAL BOW

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    THE ULTIMATE SEX TOURIST DREW NOYES DID NOT CARE WHERE HIS MONEY CAME FROM BUT NEITHER DID THAI OFFICIALS. Serial confidence fraudster Drew Walter Noyes and his Thai partner Wanrapa Boonsu officially became fugitives from justice today as Pattaya Provincial Court finally issued a warrant for their arrest after they fled on bail. The couple…