2013

THAI MAFIA ‘WANT THE FOREIGN CAKE’ Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary (‘Round up the usual suspects’) They seem invincible. The foreign operators of boiler rooms (those illegal share trading rooms which con pensioners out of millions) have now taken over vast swathes of the night life industry in Bangkok and have always seemed like they cannot […]

-SO WHY DID FORMER PIMP DECEIVE A THAI  COURT?- (David Hanks – The Age – Melbourne – picture) So the respectable veneer has been removed from the newly scrubbed face of Scot David John Hanks. And today I can reveal how he deliberately misled a Thai court. Drew Noyes, his so called boss, is not […]

PIMP FROM GIRVAN SCARED HEALTH CLINIC BOSS- The Scottish SUN– A former pupil of Girvan Academy, Ayr, was named in court in Thailand today as aide to a ‘mafia boss’ in the beach resort of Pattaya. David Hanks, 65, was described as a man with Chinese mafia connections whose boss was an American called Drew […]

HE’S GOT TO GO TO TRIAL. IT’S STILL ON GOOGLE! A DAY IN THE LIFE OF PATTAYA PROVINCIAL COURT The controversy about a picture published on the Facebook page of the mysterious Mangus Evans, who first appeared as a letter writer to the ‘Pattaya Times’ reached new heights in Court 6 of the Pattaya Provincial […]

‘IT’S MINE! – THE 2.5 MILLION WAS AN EXTRA CHARGE’ FOUNDER OF THE PATTAYA TIMES IN COURT AGAIN Controversial Pattaya publisher Drew Noyes was the centre of an angry scene at Pattaya Provincial Court today after he told a Dutch businessman that if he did not withdraw a case against him he would send him […]

AND I’LL PROVE IT WITH MY MAGNIFYING GLASS -Flying Sporran’s Mid-Week Diary- My apologies. I have been busy writing other stuff this week – which of course is sure to come to fruition here at some stage – dealing  with my favourite Pattaya Law companies – and on a treasure hunt. Some of that time […]

BAILED AGAIN – CHILD ABUSE SUSPECT RAISES QUICK CASH A British man arrested in Thailand on child sex abuse charges in February has been re-arrested again for attempted murder and bailed for a second time. Andrew Tracy, 66,  from Wickford, Essex, was caught by a ‘have a go’ Brit who came across the incident while […]

BUT FLYING SCOTSMAN FAILS TO TURN UP Scots confidence trickster Brian Goudie, who aimed to build a handsome portfolio of properties in Thailand by posing as a well to do barrister and Afghanistan war hero was a fraud, a court in Thailand heard today. But he fooled a British estate agent for three years after […]

 BUT WHERE IS MY APOLOGY DEMANDS DREW NOYES? A judge in Thailand today ordered American businessmen and founder of the Pattaya Times newspaper to withdraw a libel suit against a Bangkok based British correspondent or face arrest. At Pattaya Provincial Court today (Tuesday) Drew Noyes, 57, and his common-law Thai wife Wanrapa Boonsu, were told […]

-INTERNET DATING BLAMED – Its Thai Brides week in the British Press, or at least the Daily Telegraph, and the Government wants to close a few loopholes without being accused of ‘social engineering’. It seems ‘single’ pensioners have been taking on Thai brides and then claiming pensions for having them – even though the wives […]