2013

-HE WOULD HAVE GOT DEATH – BUT SOMCHAI WISETSINGH WAS AN ‘OUTSTANDING’ THAI POLICEMAN- AND NOW HE’S COUNTING THE DAYS. Police Sergeant Somchai Wisetsingh whose death sentence for the murders of backpackers Vanessa Arscott and Adam Lloyd in Kanchanaburi was commuted to 50 years nine years ago has had his sentence reduced by 32 years. […]

Emerald Palace Visited By Police – Sensation A controversial condominium project in Pattaya linked to a British company, which has taken billions of pounds for property projects, which have never been built, in the Caribbean and Thailand, was yesterday (Wednesday) visited by police and Pattaya Consumer Protection Officers. (Picture by CB) Emerald Palace on Pratamnak […]

-A Flying Sporran Panic Attack!- I guess there must be more than a few people like me in Thailand who have kids here but not the cash to pay the massive fees demanded by international schools – some even more expensive than Eton. This is one subject  which can bring me close to tears or […]

The Flying Sporran’s Full Moon Diary- Nobody dances outside the Zoom Bar on the Thai island of Koh Phangan anymore. Well they won’t until the fuss dies down.   It was closed down by police order after Briton Stephen Ashton took a bullet in his side on New Year’s morning. I don’t suppose the bar […]

BUT CHIEF OF PAI POLICE WAS DISMISSED FROM THE FORCE- -From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok, January 7 2013- (Pic: Uthai who also clubbed to death his 18-year-old wife) The Thai policeman who shot dead Canadian Leo Del Pinto in the northern Thai village of Pai in January 2007 shot downwards into his body on both occasions […]

 DODGER BKK ANDREW TO BE SENT HOME TO JAIL A Briton convicted of human trafficking has been arrested at gunpoint in Cambodia after absconding while on bail. Andrew Wallace, 38, from Puriton, near Bridgewater in Somerset was captured by police at a hotel in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh at the request of Britain’s Serious […]

From Andrew Drummond, Koh Phangan, Samui Archipelago Thailand’s holiday islands will be made a ‘gun free zone within a year the region’ Governor Chatpong Chataraputi declared today. Following the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Stephen Ashton at a New Year’s beach party on the island of Koh Phangan all gun licenses will be checked, gun dealers […]

“I WAS AIMING AT SOMEONE ELSE!” From Andrew Drummond, Koh Phangan, Thailand The man accused of shooting 22-year-old Stephen Ashton at a New Year party on the Thai island of Koh Phangan apologised in court today and said he never meant to hit a foreigner. Ekkapan Kaewkla, 26, told a court in the neighbouring larger […]

Thai Killer May Face Light Sentence The family of Stephen Ashton issued a statement today expressing their devastation at his death as an innocent bystander. And as they did so the Royal Thai Police announced that the alleged shooter would be charged with manslaughter and illegally carrying a fire-arm. This may be of little comfort […]

CAUGHT IN SOMEONE ELSE’S BATTLE- A 22-year-old British tourist was killed (today) in the cross fire when rivals gangs clashed on the Full Moon Party Island of Koh Phangan after the New Year countdown. Stephen Ashton was shot in the side apparently while dance on the sand on Haad Rin Beach on the island, just […]