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Andrew Drummond

The Sex Slave Trade – LWT For Channel 4 Dispatches

The Sex Slave Trade – LWT for Channel 4 Dispatches (Secret filming) April 29 1999Credit: Investigation in Thailand by Andrew DrummondEarly in 1999 Andrew Drummond was contacted by London Weekend Television. Their Factual Programming Department had put in a proposal to make a programme for Channel 4 Dispatches on the trafficking of women into Britain to […]

Exposing The Nazi Right

Under a false identity for 18 months in the early 80s Andrew Drummond infiltrated the League of St. George, regarded as the ‘thinking man’s Nazi party’, and the umbrella for a wide range of different Nazi movements in Britain.He mixed both with intellectual Nazis and with their skinhead street-fighters and attended the annual bashes at […]

Lord Archer's Bagman

As if often the case in British scandals it is not an indiscretion which brings down a government official or Member of Parliament but the lies told afterwards.Such was the case in a scandal involving Jeffrey Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-Super-Mare, and former deputy chairman of Britain’s Conservative Party. Archer had been accused by a British […]

Unmasked: Drug Baron Who Got Away/ No Man Wants To Die

‘No Man Wants to Die’ Twenty Twenty Television for Channel 4, U.K.Credit: Investigation by Andrew Drummond. This was an investigation in to the British heroin syndicate which recruited Derrick Gregory, 32, an unemployed Briton with a history of mental illness, to smuggle heroin out of Malaysia.While reporting on the conviction and execution of Australians Geoffrey Chambers and […]

Death Of A Backpacker

Andrew Drummond’s articles for ‘The Times’, ‘Mail on Sunday’ and ‘Sunday Times’ in the U.K. highlighted an irregular police investigation into the death of Kirsty Jones, a 23-old-backpacker from Wales, who was murdered and raped in the Aree guest house in Thailand’s northern capital of Chiang Mai in August 2000.It is a controversy that remains to […]

Lord Of The Golden Triangle

‘Lord of the Golden Triangle was the launch film for the Observer Film Company and was made in co-operation with Granada Television for the ITV network in the U.K. The Observer Film Company was formed after Drummond returned from the Shan States of Burma on foreign assignment for the Observer foreign desk where he met Khun Sa, aka […]

Burma's Forgotten War

Andrew Drummond together with a crew from Twenty Twenty Television travelled on foot for the BBC into the Karen State of Burma ‘Kawthoolei’ to investigate the widespread killings and rapes by Burmese Army (Tatmadaw) troops on the civilian population.No other journalists had been allowed such free access throughout Kawthoolei, as the Karen called their own […]

Tracking Down Gary Glitter – and Others

In November 2005 Andrew Drummond and photographer Andy Chant tracked down former glamour-rock icon Gary Glitter to a house in Vung Tau, Vietnam. As a direct result Glitter was later arrested as he tried to flee the country through the international airport at Ho Chi Minh city. He was later jailed for three years in […]

Wanted Suckers! Its The Boiler Room Calling…And Other Scams

Michael Clarke The Thai capital of Bangkok has attractions for not only honest foreign businessmen but a wide range of scammers. The scams have continued over the years. Only the bait changes. One on end of the scale was the ‘film company executive’ who set up a company to make a ‘Hollywood block-buster’ and who […]

Prisoners In A Human Zoo

Together with Sudarat Sereewat, the General Secretary of Thailand’s ‘Fight Against Child Exploitation Foundation’ Andrew Drummond investigated the plight of a group of Padaung, the long necked Burmese, part of the Karenni minority, who were tricked by Thai businessmen and made to perform in a ‘human zoo’ in Thaton, North Thailand. The Padaung had smuggled […]