2014

WHILE YOUNG BACKPACKERS PLAY MACABRE GAMES FOR FUN THEIR PARADISE ISLAND HOLDS DARK SECRETS As Britain today prepares to bury the bodies of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller, who were murdered on the Thai island of Koh Tai, campaigns for a fair trial for the accused, and for murder victims in Thailand have gone global. […]

KEY WITNESS DRIVES A HOLE THROUGH THAI POLICE CASE Thai police case against the alleged killers of two British backpackers in Thailand was dealt another devastating blow today after their key witness said he had no knowledge of the murder – even though he too was beaten by Thai police. Ko Maung Maung, seated in […]

‘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. […]