2014

FLYING SPORRAN’S MIDWEEK DIARY While Brian Goudie’s lawyer seemed a trifle embarrassed in court in Pattaya yesterday – and years older than his last appearance – and had to leave the court several times to use his phone to ‘get instructions’ there is widespread speculation as to what our errant ‘barrister’ will do. The dream […]

A Thai court today ordered the arrest of a Scotsman posing as a lawyer in Thailand who allegedly cheated an American woman out of over £180,000 for his fake services. The order was made after Brian Goudie, 47, from Falkirk, failed to turn up at the Provincial Court in Pattaya, to submit himself for trial […]

TOMORROW COMES FOR FAKE LAWYER WHO SAID HE WAS MAKING MONEY ‘LIKE THERE WAS NO TOMORROW!’ Sham lawyer Brian Goudie – also known as Brian Goldie – is due to appear in court tomorrow to surrender to bail on charges of defrauding an American woman out of US$300,000. This comes just ten days after he […]

 OLD SOLDIERS NEVER DIE – THEY JUST FADE AWAY! Update: Captain Webb now admitted to ICU on life support A 86-year-old former officer in the Royal Engineers is being looked after by the Royal Thai Navy after being found wandering penniless in Pattaya with memory loss. Captain Ronald Edward Webb was accepted for admission to […]

BUT THEN FLEES SINGAPORE TO AUSTRALIA A British Fund Manager who mocked the ‘poor people’ of Singapore on Facebook while showing off his private Porsche has been fired from the asset management company which employed him and moved to Australia. Anton Casey, 39, took a Singapore Airlines flight to Perth on Friday but not before […]

 TALKS WITH SONGWRITER OF EVIL MAN IN KRABI A young American student, who said she was raped in Krabi seven weeks before the Dutch model whose ordeal was brought home to Thailand by her father’s musical video protest, has broken her silence on her ordeal. And like the 19-year-old Dutch victim in the video ‘Evil […]

In the city of crippling bar prices – well for those of us who are not financial advisers – a local dog friendly bar is now offering beer at S$120 a pint or 3,086 Thai baht, or £56.50 Fortunately for mere mortals the price remains at $12 or 309 Thai baht or £5,65. The S$120 is for […]

BOTTOM GETS TOP! A guest house in Phuket has been named the fifth best in the world by Trip-Advisor. Baan Malinee, near the Laguna resort area received the award assessed I believe by the comments made by posters on the Trip-Adviser website. But Bindon Bottom, by Lulworth Cove I am glad to say received the […]

‘BE ANGRY AT YOUR MUM AND DAD FOR RAISING YOU A WUSS!’- SAID ANTON A British wealth fund manager is facing a barrage of abuse in Singapore after displaying the family Porsche online and referring to the ‘poor people’ who had to use public transport. In a Facebook post Anton Casey, who has now gone […]

‘Maybe we could get some financial support?’ Here’s our favourite American entrepreneur and, it seems, culture vulture on the trawl for cash, but he had a secret that he does not even want his cameraman to film. He is seen here talking to the then Minister of Culture, Sukamol Khunpleum, who later handed over the […]