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Andrew Drummond

2014

KOH TAO MURDERS – LOST IN TRANSLATION

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 […]

BOILING WATER AND BEATINGS – CLAIM FRIENDS OF BURMESE ON MURDER AND RAPE CHARGES

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 […]

KOH TAO MURDER – THEY DID NOT DO IT! – SAY BURMESE

THAI POLICE RE-ENACT KOH TAO MURDER SCENE ‘VERY SATISFIED WITH INVESTIGATION’ BUT BURMESE SAY ‘THEY DID NOT DO IT’ Two Burmese migrant labourers, who police say have confessed to the brutal murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller, were today ordered to take part in a reconstruction of the murder scene – comically one holding […]

THAI POLICE CLAIM BURMESE BAR WORKER HAS CONFESSED TO KOH TAO MURDERS

Thai Police today said that a 21-year old Burmese bar worker has confessed to the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the holiday island of Koh Tao. Burmese suspects share a at about 10.30 pm motorbike behind Sairee Beach, Koh Tao. Win is No 1 sandwiched between his friends – Picture Royal Thai […]

FOOT SHOOTING IN THE GULF OF THAILAND

POLICE CHIEF REMOVED – NOW ISLANDERS WANT FEES TO PREVENT MURDERS OF TOURISTS Flying Sporran Comment Well here we go again. They are doing their best to spoil my prediction that there might be a logical ‘Agatha Christie’ ending to the Koh Tao murders. Today the Nation newspaper is reporting that the Koh Parish Council, […]

‘IF I END UP DEAD IT WAS NOT SUICIDE’ SAYS HIGH PROFILE PATTAYA ‘RETIREE’

‘I JUST CAUGHT THE PATTAYA BUS’.. ‘If I end up with a bullet in my head it wasn’t suicide’ New Zealander Tim Ward, Pattaya’s perhaps highest profile tourist is absolutely livid over a visit to his house by Pattaya’s ‘Special Police’.  He says after reporting a burglary a gang of them turned up at his […]

HEADING FOR AN AGATHA CHRISTIE TYPE ENDING ON A VERY BRUTAL MURDER?

COMMENT: PERHAPS IT’S TIME TO GIVE THE THAI POLICE A BREAK! (Update. This article was clearly an aberration. But I am leaving it up as a lesson to myself) The international press has pulled off the Koh Tao murder story now, perplexed, bored, and some downright pee’d off.  But despite the repetitive promises of the […]

YORKSHIRE MYSTERY OIL AND GAS MAGNATE FROM CHIANG MAI – UNCOVERED

 IMPOVERISHED NORTHERN TOWNIES SPOT RED PORSCHE. Has the impoverished village of Nelson, Lancashire, secretly discovered oil and gas? This could be great for a town which Wikipedia says has some of the lowest house prices in the UK, and which was abandoned by the retailers, Tesco Metro, Ethel Austin, Bonmarche, B & M, Iceland, Poundstretcher, […]

TAXI DRIVER SAYS HE WAS OFFERED CASH THEN BEATEN WHEN HE WOULD NOT TALK ABOUT MURDER

SENSATIONAL WITNESS BRIBERY AND COERCION ALLEGATIONS THROW SPANNER IN WORKS OF CONTROVERSIAL THAI MURDER INVESTIGATION. BUT IT COULD BE ATTEMPT TO BLOW INVESTIGATION. (Updated October 2014) Members of the SUN football team closely behind Hannah and friends Thai police investigating the killers of Britons Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the island of Koh Tao […]

GANGLAND BRITAIN IN THAILAND – THREE JAILED FOR LIFE FOR HIT ON RETIRED HOUSE BUYER IN HUA HIN

WIFE OF SHEFFIELD GANGLAND FIGURE SENTENCED TO LIFE FOR COMMISSIONING MURDER IN THAILAND The Thai wife of an accused former Sheffield drugs dealer was sentenced to life imprisonment in Thailand today for organising ‘hits’ on a house-buyer in the royal resort city of  Hua Hin. Janpen Oxley, 38, nicknamed Sarah, the wife of Darren Oxley, […]