Bangkok Post Exposes Britain's 'Wasteful Pensioners'
The rather xenophobic ‘Bangkok Post’ is running with an article today complaining that elderly foreign pensioners, mainly Brits, are being looked after in hospitals in Phuket despite the fact that they have no cash to pay for their treatment.Some 337 foreigners ‘mostly Brits’ were treated in Vachira Hospital last year. But only 17 were penniless […]
Brit Pensioners Start Murder Fund In Thailand
FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND BANGKOK JANUARY 19 2011 British pensioners in Thailand have started a murder fund after a court released a Thai wife who allegedly commissioned the death of her London husband and then began to milk his bank accounts. Raymond Hind with his wife Fon In Hua Hin, 200 miles south west of Bangkok, […]
Rapists Called Mum During 2 Hour Attack On Woman – Thailand
From ANDREW DRUMMOND, Bangkok,January 13 2011 British Embassy officials in Thailand have assisted in the ‘escape’ from Thailand of a 23-yr-old woman from Manchester who was reportedly involved in a horrific gang-rape on the resort island of Phuket. The woman claimed she was gang raped for two hours by a group of Swedes and Thais […]
Celebrity Rehab Wars Heiress Flees Thai Clinic
ANDREW DRUMMOND January 13 2011 A 31-yr-old property heiress attending a Thai ‘Celebrity Rehab’ clinic is reported to have fled after being sexually assaulted on New Year’s Day by the clinic’s gardener. And in another incident there was a stand-off between staff of two Thai Celebrity ‘Rehab’ clinics after a woman patient asked to be transferred […]
Killer Thai 'Policeman Of The Year' Is In 'Supermax'
From ANDREW DRUMMONDBangkok January 11 2010 Thailand’s Department of Corrections have assured the families of a young couple murdered by Police Sergeant Somchai Wisetsingh in Kanchanaburi that the Sergeant is still behind locked doors in Khaobin ‘Supermax’ prison in Ratchaburi province. The move follows persistent rumours on internet forums in Thailand that Sergeant Wisetsingh has […]
Facing The 'Long Drop'- The Controversy Over Shivaun Orton
Briton Shivaun Orton faces death in Malaysia for drugs trafficking. But was she a trafficker or a victim? And will she be able to convince authorities she had no choice? A comment by Andrew Drummond. Times have changed in the execution business. In the old days I guess one took along one’s knitting and applauded as […]
Pai Canadian Murder – The Dilatory Truth
FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND, BANGKOK, December 31 2010 Three years after he gunned down Canadian Leo Del Pinto in the northern Thai village of Pai the trial of Police Sergeant Uthai Dechachiwat has still not started and papers have now been referred to the Office of Special Litigation in Bangkok. But on January 17th Sergeant Uthai […]
British Benefits Scroungers Targetted
News blog Some British expatriates in Thailand maybe concerned about their government’s plan to target to reduce what the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph are today dubbing ‘abroad fraud’. However by virtue of the fact that the story is in the Mail, and Telegraph and social security scroungers is one of their ‘b?te noires’ there […]
Farmer Joe -Thailand's Bernard Matthews
Tough turkey says wife ‘This is Thailand’ From ANDREW DRUMMOND, Bangkok,December 23 2010 A Briton, who became Thailand’s premier turkey farmer, will be eating pot noodles today, because he says turkey sticks in his throat. Plucking away in Hua Hin in bygone days Joe Stanyer, 57, was the equivalent of Britain’s Bernard Matthews, but things […]
Death Charges Confirmed On British Woman In Malaysia
From ANDREW DRUMMOND,Kota BahruDecember 23 2010 Shivaun and Ram Naruzal Shima heading for court THE daughter of a British nuclear weapons scientist is facing death by hanging after being formally charged with drug trafficking in Malaysia. Mother-of-two Shivaun Orton, whose late father Mike worked at Aldermaston weapons research centre, has been transferred in custody to […]
