Wedding Party Turns To Tragedy After Guest Drowns
From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok, February 23 2011 Wedding celebrations for a British couple on the Thai holiday island of Phuket turned to tragedy today after the body of a guest was found washed up on one of the island’s beachesThe body of Briton Daniel Medhurst, 27, believed to be from Ashford, Kent was found washed […]
Poison Link To British Pensioner Deaths In Thailand
Pathologists were today examining the bodies of two British pensioners who died in a holiday hotel – just days after three young New Zealanders collaped there in a fatal attack of alleged food poisoning. Pensioners George and Eileen Everitt from Boston, Lincs, were found dead in the Downtown Inn in the northern capital of Chiang […]
British Coroner Queries Chiang Mai Death Plunge
An English coroner has expressed dissatisfaction with a Thai police report on the death of 40-yr-old Yorkshireman Edward Fairburn who fell from the Centara Group’s Duangtawan Hotel in Chiang Mail last year. Halifax Coroner Roger Whittaker said: ‘I have grave concerns over the lack of information I have particularly in relation to how Mr Fairburn […]
The Great Bangkok Boiler Room Murder Fiasco
‘Now F*ck off out of Thailand’ said Bangkok boiler room boy ‘We don’t need your kind here’ ANDREW DRUMMOND February 18 2011 Some nine years after the murder of New Zealander Ian Travis in Bangkok the man once described as the mastermind behind the killing is behind bars in Bangkok Special prison. Boiler room scammer […]
British Child Abuser Nabbed After 23 Years
FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND February 17 2010 A British pensioner child sex abuser who has been committing offences on the run for over 23 years has been seized in Thailand as part of an ongoing operation by the Britain’s CEOP. Thai Police acting on information from Serious Organised Crime officers based in Bangkok arrested Roderick William […]
Sex Attack – A British Woman's Trauma In The Hills
In answer to a recent story I wrote about the alleged rape of a British woman in Patong, Phuket, I have received this letter from a young British woman, who two years ago was the victim of a sexual attack in Thailand. I was moved by this letter because it does so seem to capture […]
Akha Hill Tribe Man Gets Life For Murder Of British Composer
From Andrew Drummond, BangkokFebruary 4th 2010 A 23-yr-old member of the Akha hill tribe in Northern Thailand has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of British music teacher and composer David Crisp. David Crisp with the Spirit House singers Awe Ye Piang, was sentenced by the Chiang Mai provincial court in Northern Thailand, […]
Back From Hell – Pattaya Horror Story Revisited
This is an emaciated Richard Hewitt before being rescued from a Pattaya police cell where he lay naked and cuffed to the cell bars in what witnesses described as a state near to death. And this is Richard Hewitt today. He has made an incredible recovery after treatment at a psychiatric hospital in Bangkok. And […]
British Border Agency Was Wrong To Deport Thai Bride
Tribunal rules kilt maker ‘who clicked wrong button’ on website cannot easily get rid of Thai bride FROM ANDREW DRUMMONDBANGKOKJanuary 30 2011 A Thai bride who was summarily deported after her 67-yr-old Scottish kilt maker husband decided the marriage was over has won her Immigration Appeal against the British Border Agency Kanokrat Nimsamoot Booth, aged, […]
Thai Policeman Goes Down For Pai Murder
FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND, BANGKOK, January 27 2011 A Thai policeman who murdered his 18-yr-old bride two weeks after their wedding has been sentenced to 25 years after pleading guilty at Pai Provincial Court. Sergeant Uthai Dechawiwat had a life sentence reduced in half after he pleaded guilty. He admitted clubbing his pregnant wife to death […]
