2015

  THERE WILL BE BLOOD IN BANGKOK! What happens when you put a Bangkok financial adviser together with the foreign managing director of a typical foreign controlled local law firm in Thailand and put them into the Thai property business? Graham Macdonald MBE and Greg Pitt Well almost certainly it seems there will be a […]

POLICE ACCUSED OF COVERING UP ANOTHER MURDER OF FOREIGNER Thai Police have been accused of the cover up in the murder of another foreigner – this one shot three times with two guns in the north eastern Thai province of Chaiyaphum. Local police have closed the file on the murder of Jawad Rasheed Khan,  who […]

The question over the use of child soldiers in the conflict of Southern Thailand has raised its head again – this time in a 17 page report by Child Soldiers International. The report today is linked below. Child soldiers have existed for decades if not hundreds of years in this region from kids, some very […]

Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary  ARE YOU KIDDING GENERAL SOMYOT? The author  confronts foreign financial scammers in Bangkok and their Thai fixer who was charged with conspiracy to murder New Zealander Ian Travis The Flying Sporran was gobsmacked to read in the Bangkok Post this week from the head of the Royal Thai Police General Pumpanmuang […]

A story scheduled to appear in the spot has been held over due to yesterday’s attack on ‘Charlie Hebdo’ in Paris. Satire is a vital and essential tool in a journalist’s very limited armoury. Yesterday’s attack reminds us all that there are some societies which tolerate freedom of speech but sometimes journalists pay the penalties […]

COURT CROWDED WITH LAWYERS – AS RICH KIDS JET IN FOR ADJOURNMENT Thai Justice – Judge Admits Simple Case Could Take Years Jack on his own  Bangkok Airways bus Lawyers for two American Chinese rich kids, who allegedly made a severe and unprovoked attack on a graduating pupil from the New International School of Thailand […]

‘BANG, BANG, BANG’, KILLER ON RIVER KWAI MOVES BACK TO HOME TOWN (From the Flying Sporran in Kanchanaburi) Just ten years after being sentenced to death, later reduced to 50 years, and later again reduced to 32 years, Police Sergeant Somchai Wisetsingh, who brutally murdered Britons Adam Lloyd, 24, and Vanessa Arscott,23, in Kanchanburi, has […]

TRADER QUITS BANGKOK HIDEAWAY TO RETURN TO BRITAIN. It may be a lot safer! Runaway Forex Trader Joe Lewis has returned to Britain after being tracked down to hideaway in the thai capital Bangkok. But before packing his bags he denied stories that he had made off with up to £150 million pounds worth of […]

WHERE ARE THE FINANCIAL COPS WHEN YOU NEED ‘EM? Bangkok’s boiler rooms,some of whom have paid vast amounts of cash to Thai police and army officials, have of course conned multi-millions of dollars out of people worldwide – but few of them have actually conned governments. Now Croatia is waking up to the fact that […]

Sean McAnna leaving Koh Tao Koh Phangan island police in Thailand have ruled there is no foul play in the suicide of a French national who apparently hanged himself in a small rented beach hut in Koh Tao district. This may have sent a chill down the spines of people who heard the account of […]