October 2014

‘YOU SHOULD BE THANKING US BECAUSE WE HAVE MADE IT EASIER FOR THE NEXT PERSON WHO GOES THERE’ – HE SAID AFTER HE AND SAVILE RAPED INNOCENT 15-YEAR-OLD Former Pattaya Brit Ray Teret, now 72, has now gone on trial in Britain for the rape of 18 under-aged girls. Teret, lived in Thailand for several […]

‘WE BEAT THEM WITH BLUNT END OF HOE – WE WERE DRUNK. WE DID NOT MEAN TO KILL THEM’ BUT  THEY WERE ‘BEATEN AND THREATENED WITH TORTURE’ Two Burmese men accused of the barbaric killings of David Hannah and Hannah Witheridge on the Thai island of Koh Tao – have admitted to lawyers they did […]

FACEBOOK FRIEND ‘KILLER’ FOUND RUNNING A MOBILE PHONE SHOP Police in India have arrested the alleged man wanted for the murder of a wealthy American socialite in Bangkok two years ago. Ritesh Sanghvi, 28, was arrested under warrant issued by the Special Extradition Court  in Delhi. Its alleged stabbed Wendy Albano, 52, from South Tampa, […]

BUT POLICE WARN ‘BE CAREFUL. YOU COULD BE SUED’. The Thai National Commission for Human Rights has provided a hotline and an email for any witnesses who feel they can shed new light on the murders of Britons David Miller and Hannah Witheridge on the island of Koh Tao. But almost simultaneously Deputy Police Commissioner-General […]

NEGATIVE INSINUATIONS WERE OUT OF LINE. Workers’ rights activist is asking the office of the National Broadcasting Telecommunications Commission to adjudicate his complaints over a three part ‘investigation’ by Thai Channel 3 television into his role in the ‘Natural Fruit’ controversy. The series widely regarded as a ‘stitch up’ in the foreign community suggested Hall, […]

FIGHT THE FAKE OFFICER AND GENTLEMAN The appeal for help in raising bail to fight an international confidence trickster Brian Goudie whom a court in Koh Samui, Thailand, has agreed can sue  journalist Andrew Drummond for publishing pictures, among others, of Goudie in the attire of a barrister at law and an officer in the […]

As international human rights agencies seeks clarification on a controversial Thai murder investigation, staff at the Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok send a team to Koh Samui A Burmese migrant worker ngo also has sent a team to Koh Samui where the suspects are being held. But police chief Police General Somyot Pumpunmuang denies they are scapegoats. And […]

(UPDATED) AN APPEAL FOR SANITY, er, and CASH. Due to an increasing number of serious physical threats and other threats to my freedom, which, I guess, would have to be implemented illegally with co-operation of local police, I plan to leave this country next year,  with my three young children, subject to proceedings in hand. […]

The last article on this site “Boiling water and beatings, claim Burmese workers” has been deliberately mistranslated and is currently circulating around Thai media and social networking sites stating that I wrote that the men under arrest had been tortured. This is of course NOT a claim I have made. I have no knowledge of […]

PLEASE DON’T CLOSE THIS CASE! Three of the out of group of nine Burmese who were friends of the two who now face the death penalty in Thailand for murder of two British backpackers were tortured by Thai police six days ago, it was claimed today. Praying and begging for forgiveness (Khao Sod)  Or is […]