2012

 EXCLUSIVE EYE WITNESS ACCOUNT FROM NIELS COLOV Dramatic events apparently unfolded at Pattaya Court, Saturday. Here follows an exclusive report from our man on the spot – and in the witness box – the legendary Pattaya journalist ‘My Press Card Is Real’ Niels Colov EXCLUSIVE BY NIELS COLOV, PATTAYA COURT “Dear All,  I just came back from […]

Tomorrow Saturday May 26th is D Day on attempts by Drew Noyes, publisher of the Pattaya Times, who has been joined by Niels Colov, publisher of the Pattaya People, to block this site from viewers in Thailand. So now I have to step back on reporting this issue and let a colleague journalist take over. On […]

They’re irritable. They like a tipple. They don’t like fakes ruining their retirement playground. Could the mysterious ‘Grumpy Old Men Society’ in Phuket, Thailand, help put an end to charlatans on the island. Read On. Flying Sporran’s Bangkok Midweek Diary I am going slightly off my beat today to say hello to the fine residents of […]

English ‘Gentlemen’ Sometimes Don’t Mind Robbing Old Ladies May 17 2012 They call him ‘The Penguin’.  Could it be because he has all the attributes of the fictitious villain in the ‘Batman’ comic – come- Hollywood hero series – a fiendish mind with a fishy smell about him?  At any rate if you come across this British charmer and […]

May 15 2012 Seems Michael Helsby Knight wants his life back. New Zealand con man Michael Helsby Knight who pulled off various cons in Pattaya after being banned from ever trading in New South Wales, Australia, is apparently whinging about his reported death. He has been circulating an email showing himself holding up a copy […]

 Glasgow Rangers football team and the commercial gay sex business in Pattaya, Thailand, are unlikely bedfellows. But both have come up again now Lord Justice Nimmo Smith – Nimmo the Dimmo – has been appointed to oversee the current enquiry into the football team. The judge is the story apparently – read here about planeloads […]

A ROTARY CLUB CONMAN – & THE ANATOMY OF A THAI PROPERTY SCAM (CONTD) May 10 2012 A Flying Sporran Update Richard Haughton – the fat cat of Thai Media & Property Exhibition Co., Ltd – is back in Thailand after successfully avoiding investors he had ripped off .When they come he goes. Here one of his victims […]

 OLD ENEMIES JOIN FORCES TO BEAT A RAP May 9 2012 The publisher of the Pattaya People – a man revealed on this site as a person with convictions for pimping, violence, and dishonesty – has vowed to help his friend Drew Noyes, Publisher of the Pattaya Times get off charges of extortion in the local […]

The Flying Sporran gets down and dirty in the beer bars of Pattaya to hunt down an ageing rock star who has reportedly faked his own death to avoid massive tax debts and now opened his own bars in the resort. In the process he meets an ‘Ex SAS’ man, and a former ‘armed robber’ . It wasn’t […]

This site takes a new more streamlined look today. Not many startling changes but we have moved server and are gearing up.  Coming soon will be some new additions – like ‘Flying Sporran’s’ ‘The List’ and ‘Gang Warily’ – a new Due Diligence service we are in the process of setting up to keep the uninitiated out of trouble […]