2016

AFTER MULTIPLE COVER-UPS  VICTIMS  HOLD OUT HOPE Three years after being raided by the Department of Special Investigations in the Thai resort city of Pattaya Italian con man Raoul Bianchetti appears to have become a self-made multi-millionaire. Nevertheless a group of victims are holding out hope that the man who they claim builds floating death […]

Ben Bartanyi must be regretting the day when he showed the class of tourist typically cruising down one of the sleaziest streets in the Thai resort of Pattaya. Ruining the image? This image? He was caught on camera during the country’s Songkran New Year festivities engaged in a sexual act with a Thai bar girl […]

BUT NOT CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS   A reward of US$5000 has been put out now for the whereabouts of Greg Pitt, a former stalwart of the British Chamber of Commerce in Thailand.   According to those hunting him down he has been sentenced to 18 years in jail by the provincial court in Trat […]

THANKS, BUT WE WANT TO RENT AND SELL YOUR HOUSES TO OTHER FOREIGNERS NOW! Foreigners who built expensive holiday and retirement homes on the Thai island of Koh Samui on ‘extendable leases’ leases have been kicked out and their property and their possessions seized. Now their homes are being rented and sold to other foreigners. […]

Briton Simon Corner the subject of a Euro arrest warrant issued after the disappearance of his Scots girlfriend Lis Brown in the south of Spain last November could be a test case for co-operation between police forces across two continents. So far the Guardia Civil, the primary investigator, has been involved with police in Merseyside, […]

HE COULD DEAL WITH ARTHUR SCARGILL BUT NOT THAILAND’S IMMIGRATION POLICE In its continuing onslaught against foreigners Thailand has cut short the annual holiday of British journalist and author Maurice Jones and told him to get packing in seven days. Jones, a well-known and feisty journalist front the north of England wrote the amusing novel […]

CONVICTED BANK ROBBER ARMED BY POLICE IN THAILAND FOR TERROR These are the moments a Thai policeman handed over a gun to a former ‘Double Category A’ British convict in the Thai resort of Hua Hin. The recipient was Jason Coghlan a convicted criminal and bank robbery and brother of the boss of one of […]

DREW NOYES AND BRIAN GOUDIE HIT THE DUST – BUT LITTLE THANKS TO THAILAND’S JUSTICE SYSTEM With the confirmation of the conviction and jailing of Drew Noyes, former publisher of the Pattaya Times newspaper – and the conviction and new arrest warrants for fake British lawyer Brian Goudie, aka Goldie, now is the time perhaps […]

AND THEY CAN’T GO TO COURT IF THEY ARE SCAMMED!  Silver They are at it again – the outrageous duo American Richard Ian Silver and his former Thai mistress Imorn Leukhamkarn the purveyors of mostly imaginary condominiums in Thailand’s mafia controlled eastern seaboard. Having taken cash on three condominium projects – Bang Saray Beach, Bang […]

‘I KNOW I WILL DIE TRYING’ The publisher and editor of the Samui Times online newspaper has returned to Britain after being troubled by the trial and guilty verdict against the two young Burmese Wai Phyo and Zaw Lin for the murders of Britons Hannah Witheridge and David Miller. Suzanne Buchanan was reported to be […]