The Flying Sporran’s Bangkok Diary July 22 2012 Gordon Bennett! The British Consulate in Pattaya – once dubbed the world’s busiest – will be holding some erratic opening hours until further notice due to the resignation of the Thai born current Vice-Consul. Leela Bennett, the big cheese in Pattaya, it is understood, wished a transfer […]
A FLYING SPORRAN INVESTIGATION July 20 2012 Peter ‘Butts’ Butler An Australian legal firm which has been handling the defences for some of the ‘Bali 9’ has been implicated in allegations of fraud, corruption, and conspiracy on the Indonesian holiday island. Austrindo, of Kuta Beach, Bali, run by former Perth lawyer Peter Johnson, 65, been named […]
A FLYING SPORRAN ADVISORY Having already been put up on a ‘watch list’ by Britain’s Financial Services Agency the boiler room ‘Springhill Group’ working out of Seoul, South Korea, is today targeting foreigners in Thailand. Today a punter in Pattaya who received initials calls and Springhill’s brochure got that special call from a Brit calling himself […]
BRIT ON LIFE-THREATENING ASSAULT CHARGE SOLD DODGY VISAS Briton Sean Tinsley, who was recently arrested returning from Britain and charged in connection with the attack on English school teacher Adam Pickles in Pattaya, said today he would like to tell his side of the story. But he said he needed time to clear up personal […]
Warning this story includes sex, money, lots of it, alleged fit-ups and foreigners wearing surgical masks. For those who do not know what boiler rooms are, I hope this makes you better informed. For those who do not wish to drink, eat, or play sex games in a boiler room run operation, I cannot help […]
From ANDREW DRUMMOND, Bangkok, July 7 2012 . Pickles A 43-year-old Briton accused of the brutal road rage attack on a popular English teacher in Thailand was today (Saturday) being held in custody for attempted murder after being arrested at Bangkok International Airport. Sean Henry Tinsley had fled Thailand, it is alleged, after launching a […]
FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND Bangkok Wednesday, July 04, 2012 As the death toll today role to 11 a British has woman confirmed how her boyfriend pleaded with a long distance bus driver to slow down before the fatal crash in south Thailand. Holding back tears Roberta Norton, 31 who was travelling with her partner Jonathan Bennett, 28, said […]
Niels Colov, Pattaya Publisher and police volunteerFrom Andrew Drummond, July 4 2012 The Pattaya People was today found guilty of criminal libel and has been ordered to pay compensation of 500,000 Thai baht to an Australian managed property company which a court ruled the newspaper had defamed. The CEO of the ‘Pattaya People’, Copenhagen man-about-town and one time […]
Bangkok, July 4 2012 He never took over the family seat – sold by his father to Madame Tussauds – but Guy Greville, the current Earl of Warwick started building luxury homes to beat all on the Thai holiday island of Phuket. In fact so amazing was his new scheme for people with the odd US$5-US$10 million to […]
Picture TNA – Cook and colleagues From ANDREW DRUMMOND, BANGKOK, July 1 -2012 A young Briton, who was arrested last month in a police raid on a Bangkok ‘boiler room’, has been found dead in custody in the Thai capital. Foreign Office officials said they were liaising with the man’s family ‘at this difficult time’ […]
Andrew Drummond is a British independent journalist and occasional television documentary maker. He is a former Fleet Street, London, journalist having worked at the Evening Standard, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, News of the World, Observer and The Times.