Drug Runner – A Dead Man Laughing – The Australian
Andrew Drummond, Bangkok | September 08, 2007THIS is one of the world’s most notorious – and remarkable – heroin traffickers: Melbourne man David McMillan. He should be dead. Or at least wasting away in a Thai jail awaiting death by hanging.Instead, on this September morning when The Weekend Australian tracked him down to London’s Fulham […]
Hill-Tribe Men 'Set Up' For Rape, Murder Of Aussies
By Andrew Drummond and Jim PollardTHAI police set up two hill-tribe men to take the rap for the murder of Australian student Kelvin Bourke and the rape of his girlfriend Sheri McFarlane in northern Thailand in 2000.Thailand’s Supreme Court delivered a final appeal verdict in Chiang Mai on Monday, acquitting two men previously given the […]
Gun Brit 'Nicked' In Thailand
From Andrew DrummondA 32-yr-old Briton is to be banned from Thailand after brandishing a pistol in a bar in the resort of Pattaya.Spencer Lloyd Henley, from London, would first be charged with firearms offences, after which immigration authorities would deport and blacklist him, police said.Henley was today being held in a cell at Pattaya police […]
British Victims Of Sandakan Death March Finally Honoured
Daily MailBritish victims of Sandakan death marches finally honouredLast updated at 16:43pm on 17th August 2007More than 600 Britons who were brutally put to death by the Japanese in the former British North Borneo have finally been fully honoured.In the shadow of Mount Kinabalu, a memorial stone has been errected in an ‘English garden’ to […]
Why Did Your Police Kill My Granny Mr. Thaksin?â€ÂÂ
A QUESTION FOR BILLIONAIRE EX-PM OF THAILANDWHY DID YOUR POLICE KILL MY LOVELY GRANNY?SUNDAY MIRROR INVESTIGATES: DISTRAUGHT FAMILY SEEK TRUTHBy Kate Mansey And Andrew DrummondAs he ploughs millions into Manchester City, new owner Thaksin Shinawatra is being hailed by fans as the latest foreign billionaire to bring his riches to British football.But back in his […]
Briton Dies On World's Highest Ski Peak
From Andrew Drummond, July 24 2007The body of a British outdoor sports enthusiast who planned to climb Mount Mustagata in China, the world’s highest ski peak, is being flown back to Britain, after he died in the attempt.Jonathan Peacock, 39, a technology consultant from Runcorn, Cheshire, died in his tent on the approach to the […]
Britain's Heroes Of Sandakan Remembered 62 Years On
From Andrew DrummondRanau, Sabah, Malaysia, July 23 2007Pictures Andrew ChantThe haunting and jagged hulk of Mount Kinabalu towers over some of the most beautiful jungle in the world here at a place called Ranau in what was formerly British North Borneo.But for some 641 British servicemen of the Royal Artillery and Royal Air Force there […]
Starship Enterprise V Burmese Military Junta
SS Enterprise against the Burmese military junta From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok, Sunday July 22 2007 With all avenues stretched in their battle against Burma’s pariah military junta Burma’s oppressed minorities are glad any of any extra help they get – even if it comes from the crew of the Starship Enterprise. Yesterday it was […]
Briton Arrested For Raping Swedish Woman On Thai Holiday
From Andrew Drummond, BangkokTuesday 3rd July 2007A 27-year-old British tourist has been arrested and charged with the rape of a Swedish woman on a Thai holiday island.Benjamin Gardner, from Newport, Wales was apprehended today (Tuesday) by police in Pattaya, Eastern Thailand after an Interpol arrest warrant was issued to Thailand’s National Police headquarters.He is alleged to […]
I Hope Your Wife And Daughter Are Raped By Rastafarians'
A reader’s letter after Andrew Drummond’s investigations into neo-Nazis.
