February 2014
‘TARTAN PIMPERNEL’ DEPORTED FROM THAILAND
-POLICE RAID HOME AND KOH SAMUI CLUB AND SEND ‘WHACKY’ HOME- A SECTION OF THE ISLAND’S FOREIGN CRIMINAL FRATERNITY IS ALARMED Fugitive British drugs and organized crime figure Walter ‘Whacky’ Douglas’ was behind bars in Britain last night after Thai police swooped on his holiday island lair. (Whacky with a friend in ‘Dreamers’) Douglas, known […]
CONVICTED FRAUDSTER SAYS HE WANTS TO HELP ABUSED BOYS
(Pic briangoudie,blogspot.com) Under an eerie naked photograph of himself convicted and runaway Scottish fraudster Brian Goudie, who has now been convicted of cheating a 75-year-old woman out of US$300,000, has surfaced on the internet and announced that he plans to make donations to boy victims of child abuse. The fake lawyer, who claimed he made […]
HAVE YOU SEEN THIS CHILD ABUSER?
A British suspected paedophile, who was arrested in connection with the attack on a 14-year-old boy while on bail for child sexual offences and then bailed again, could be prosecuted in the United Kingdom using extra-territorial law. Andrew Tracey, 65, from Wickford, Essex, is believed to have fled Thailand and may in the meantime by […]
THE STANDARD – CELEBRATES
Born in 1827 the London Evening Standard is celebrating its 187th birthday today. It was originally known as the Standard, then the Evening Standard, but in my time it was known by the familiar news vendor cry as ‘Eeeny Stannit’ . It’s now known to most again just as ‘The Standard’. 187? Yes I know […]
DEPORT THIS FOREIGNER! – SAYS COMPO SPOKESMAN
Satish (Facebook) The announcement on MCOT online today that the Centre to Maintain Peace and Order has ordered the Immigration Department to deport Satish Seghal, a well-respected Indian businessman and ardent royalist, is being met with incredulity in many places. Whether Chalerm Yubamrung’s command will be followed or whether this is just more hot air […]
DRUMMOND GUILTY OF LIBEL – NOT GUILTY OF LIBEL UNDER THE COMPUTER CRIME ACT
MIXED MESSAGES AT PATTAYA COURT British journalist Andrew Drummond was today further acquitted of libel under the Computer Crime Act but a charge ruled him guilty of criminal libel for allowing two letters sent in by readers to be posted on the site www.andrew-drummond.com. He is appealing the latter judgment. Drummond was fined 40,000 baht […]
MY APOLOGIES – BRITISH JOURNALIST IN NAKED THAI ELECTION SHOCK
Apologies to readers of this site who were expecting comment and analysis on the Thai election. The owner of this site is trying to go to bed. He has no news or analysis. He did however write a few words in reply to requests such as ‘What were you wearing when you were dodging bullets? […]
AMBULANCE MAN SEXUALLY ASSAULTED EMERGENCY PATIENT – THEN LEFT HER TO DROWN IN CANAL
A Bangkok ambulance man high on crystal methamphetamine sexually assaulted an attractive patient while she was unconscious and left her to drown in a canal. He picked up the 28-year-old office worker who collapsed while having dinner at a city restaurant, but instead of taking her to a hospital, he parked up sexually assaulted her, […]
GUNMEN OPEN UP AT ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTS
Twitter pic Seven people were injured including two journalists after gunmen opened fire at an anti-government demonstration in Bangkok today causing extreme concern over further, perhaps more serious, violence at a planned national election tomorrow. The violent scenes took part at the Laksi junction area of Bangkok as anti-government supporters attempted to disrupt the distribution […]
Thai Airways – Does Thaksin Shinawatra have a special interest here?
More and more rumours are spreading from the corporate offices of Thai Airways and yet again they involve former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Last month the airline was subject to the rumour that the company would be declared bankrupt this year – in May actually. Chadchart Sittipunt the Minister of Transport, was forced to deny […]