January 2015
‘JUSTIFIABLY PROUD’ BRITISH CONSULAR SERVICE PROMISES TO REMOVE DIGIT
FAMILIES OF MURDER VICTIMS ABROAD TO GET MORE ASSISTANCE The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office is to set up an ‘Access to Justice Unit’ to help the families of victims of murder and manslaughter overseas. The move follows criticism from the families which included demonstrations in London and a review by the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs […]
BRITISH GIRL DEAD IN KOH TAO IN LINK TO RAPE AND MURDER OF HANNAH WITHERIDGE
ONE DEATH TOO FAR? A 23-year-old British woman was found dead on the Thai island of Koh Tao early yesterday leaving Thailand’s military controlled government and Tourism Authority with a potential public relations problem after the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller last year. For Christina Hannersley a politically aware and perhaps budding journalist […]
TOP CIVIL SERVANT SUMMONSED OVER ALLEGATIONS OF ATTEMPTED MURDER OF BRIT PROF
A BAG OF GRENADES, 450 DEATH THREATS, ROCKS THROUGH A CAR WINDOW – DON’T CAUSE A THAI CIVIL SERVANT TO LOSE FACE! In a case monitored by the British Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand’s Department of Special Investigation (DSI) recently summoned a senior government officer for questioning in relation to his possible involvement in attempts on […]
IT’S MINE! ALL MINE! SAYS DEFIANT FAKE LAWYER
‘I’VE JUST MADE A MILLION SO ‘F#CK YOU!’ Brian Goudie, the fake British barrister currently on trial for posing as a lawyer to cheat a 76-year-old American woman out of 7.8 million baht, defiantly claimed last night that she would get ‘f@#K All!’ Goudie, formerly known as Brian Goldie, who evaded a Scottish arrest warrant […]
BRITISH JOURNALIST – THANK YOU THAILAND
Wow. It has been a hectic month as I have been doing a little touring with my children before heading back to the U.K. They do not really understand what is happening. We are sort of on an adventure, some of which I guess could make a story by itself. But the last few days […]
THAILAND’S MOST FAMOUS BARRISTER RETURNS TO THE BAR
FROM THE ‘JAGGIE THISTLE TO THE WIG AND PEN?’ Flying Sporran’s Diary First picture of Goude in Thailand, outside his personal collection Brian Goudie, 48, by now probably Thailand’s most famous fake barrister is back home in premises on the eastern seaboard formerly known as the lair of Ulster drugs trafficker Jimmy ‘Doc’ Halliday. I […]
BRIT WALKS FROM THAI MURDER CHARGE
BUT PARENTS OF VICTIM HAVE DOUBTS A 23-year-old Briton who allegedly pushed his pal of a balcony off a Bangkok apartment to his death in June 2013 has been acquitted of a murder charge but fined the equivalent of £30 on minor drugs charges, at Bangkok Criminal court. James Anthony Durnan walked free from the […]
BLIND EYE TO MURDER? – BANKS ACCUSED OF COLLUDING WITH BANGKOK BOILER ROOMS
BANGKOK BOILER ROOM KING WORTH US$150 MILLION A story in the South China Morning Post yesterday may give a further clue to readers why I am not in Thailand today, or specifically where the threats come from. From an initial investigation by Drummondfor ‘The Times’ Written by colleague Benjamin Robertson a journalist colleague and financial writer […]
THE LONG ARM OF A PHONY BARRISTER –
The Flying Sporran’s Thai Country Diary Two second rate fraudsters seem annoyed at the fact that that journalist Andrew Drummond the author of this site has left Thailand claiming he has breached bail and they will pursue him all the way to the white cliffs of Dover and beyond to seek retribution. Brian Goudie, our […]
ANDREW DRUMMOND QUITS THAILAND AFTER 25 YEARS – STATEMENT
British journalist Andrew Drummond has quit Thailand after 25 years covering Southeast Asia from the Thai capital Bangkok. The primary reasons were a direct threat to the safety of himself and his three children from foreign criminals in Thailand working in liaison with the Thai Police and Thailand’s Crime Computer Crime Act, which he […]
