Rape And Murder In Chiang Mai – Ten Years On
August 9 2010ANDREW DRUMMOND, Bangkok,Tomorrow will be the 10th anniversary of the murder and rape of backpacker Kirsty Jones, aged 23, in the Aree Guesthouse in Chiang Mai. Even though Thai police, together with the help of Dyfed Powys Police, have the full DNA profile of her killer no progress was made in finding her killer, […]
GANGLAND BRITAIN IN THAILAND (Contd) – Dinkie’s Enforcer
ANDREW DRUMMOND HUA HIN, AUGUST 07 2010 (Updated Sept 05 2010) Gunshots in the night, a man screaming in pain floundering in a swimming pool, an armed police raid, murder threats, and some tasty and violent characters from the British crime scene. These are episodes from the continuing soap opera at a housing project for foreigners in […]
Now You See Them…British Property Bosses Disowned
The Lersuang Family Tree – see letter Property Pundit British ‘off plan’ property kings Errol Salih and Selwyn Casey – the men who brought us England footballer Joe Cole and gave him a free condo in a non-existent project in Hua Hin have made a tactical withdrawler, have been dismissed from their property rental business, […]
Peace Breaks Out In Pattaya – No War Say Media Barons
The response to the death of Stuart O’Neill and the resulting flood of touching messages that followed have over the last two weeks turned around a really tragic incident into a celebration of the life of a great and funny friend. Now I am being brought back to earth with a bump by a flurry […]
CEOP Fly To Investigate 'Phnom Penh' Garbage Dump Brit
From ANDREW DRUMMONDBangkok, July 3 2010British child protection police arrived in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh today to help surpervise an investigation into the activities of 66-yr-old David Fletcher, who ran a charity for children on a city garbage dump.Two officers from CEOP -the Child Exploitation and Online Protection centre- arrived in the capital and […]
Locked Up In A Hell Hole In Laos
This follows the case of Samantha Orobator, a Nigerian born Briton, locked up in jail in Laos for drugs trafficking.Samantha faced the death sentence but while in jail became pregant with the assistance of another prisoner Briton John Watson . Her case was taken up by the charity ‘Reprieve’ and she returned to Britain under a […]
Preying On The Children Of The Dump
In June 2010 Andrew Drummond working with photographer Andy Chant were called to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to investigate the activities of David Fletcher, a Briton who had set up the ‘Garbage dump project’. Food is good no matter where it comes fromFletcher, who had a conviction in the UK for the sexual abuse of a 15-yr-old, […]
Phnom Penh Man To Be Deported Immigration No Sex Offender
A convicted British child abuser was today being held in custody in Bangkok and is expected to be the second Briton deported under the country’s new anti-paedophile policy. David Fletcher David Fletcher, 66, from Saffron Walden, Essex, was arrested at a guest house in Bangkok after fleeing Cambodia where he was running a charity for […]
Pattaya's Perfect Dilemma – Revisited
This is a blog I’m sorry. I make no apologies today for giving you an old story. But this is a story I wrote the best part of 14 years ago and it just shows, well, not a lot of of things have changed. Its about Pattaya of course, and the local shenanigans. In a day or […]
BBC Admits: 'We Done Em Up Proper'
This is a blog only Well not exactly, but readers of this blog will already know that I previously said that it was pointless attacking the BBC or CNN or other foreign correspondents over the coverage of the red shirt riots in Bangkok because things always to tend to turn around in the end. A […]
