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Andrew Drummond

2010

Don't Bite Your Tongue' Jude Law Is Told In Laos

From ANDREW DRUMMONDin Luang Prabang, Northern LaosAugust 20 2010 Luang Prabang Hollywood star Jude Law and his lover Sienna Williams posed as backpackers in remote communist Northern Laos and pledged their love for each other in a ceremony conducted here by a village shaman.In a picture-book journey which ended north of Luang Prabang, the ancient […]

In The Nick Of The Politics Of Prosecuting Sex Abuse Update

Blog/The opinions here are those of the author. He had the ticket and had booked his seat but just 24 hours before David Fletcher was due to be deported from Thailand – as a persona non grata having served a jail sentence in the UK for sexually abusing a minor – his trip to Blighty was […]

British Pensioner Clubbed To Death In Thai Wife Killing

From ANDREW DRUMMONDBangkok, August 11 2010 This is the last known picture of retired business man Raymond Hind smiling happily as his Thai wife in a swirly shirt and 99% pure gold pendant cheekily makes a ‘V’ sign behind his head. Months later Hind, 68, from Cheshunt, Herts, who was terminally ill with throat cancer […]

Rape And Murder In Chiang Mai – Ten Years On

Bangkok, Murder in Chiang Mai – Andrew Drummond Times 2 Cover story The death of a backpacker Tomorrow will be the 10th anniversary of the murder and rape of backpacker Kirsty Jones, aged 23, in the Aree Guesthouse in Chiang Mai. Even though Thai police, together with the help of Dyfed Powys Police, have the […]

Rape And Murder In Chiang Mai – Ten Years On

August 9 2010ANDREW DRUMMOND, Bangkok,Tomorrow will be the 10th anniversary of the murder and rape of backpacker Kirsty Jones, aged 23, in the Aree Guesthouse in Chiang Mai. Even though Thai police, together with the help of Dyfed Powys Police, have the full DNA profile of her killer no progress was made in finding her killer, […]

GANGLAND BRITAIN IN THAILAND (Contd) – Dinkie’s Enforcer

 ANDREW DRUMMOND HUA HIN, AUGUST 07 2010 (Updated Sept 05 2010) Gunshots in the night, a man screaming in pain floundering in a swimming pool, an armed police raid, murder threats, and some tasty and violent characters from the British crime scene.  These are episodes from the continuing soap opera at a housing project for foreigners in […]

Now You See Them…British Property Bosses Disowned

The Lersuang Family Tree – see letter Property Pundit British ‘off plan’ property kings Errol Salih and Selwyn Casey – the men who brought us England footballer Joe Cole and gave him a free condo in a non-existent project in Hua Hin  have made a tactical withdrawler, have been dismissed from their property rental business, […]

Peace Breaks Out In Pattaya – No War Say Media Barons

The response to the death of Stuart O’Neill and the resulting flood of touching messages that followed have over the last two weeks turned around a really tragic incident into a celebration of the life of a great and funny friend. Now I am being brought back to earth with a bump by a flurry […]

CEOP Fly To Investigate 'Phnom Penh' Garbage Dump Brit

From ANDREW DRUMMONDBangkok, July 3 2010British child protection police arrived in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh today to help surpervise an investigation into the activities of 66-yr-old David Fletcher, who ran a charity for children on a city garbage dump.Two officers from CEOP -the  Child Exploitation and Online Protection   centre- arrived in the capital and […]

Locked Up In A Hell Hole In Laos

This follows the case of Samantha Orobator, a Nigerian born Briton, locked up in jail in Laos for drugs trafficking.Samantha faced the death sentence but while in jail became pregant with the assistance of another prisoner Briton John Watson . Her case was taken up by the charity ‘Reprieve’ and she returned to Britain under a […]