FAKE LAWYER – ‘I’M GONE’
BRIAN GOUDIE’S DAY OF RECKONING LOOMS Brian Goldie, who resurfaced in Thailand posing as a barrister and former officer in the Royal Marines after a six year jail sentence for theft in Australia, is due to face judgment tomorrow for posing as a lawyer to cheat a 78-year-old American woman out of 7.8 million Thai […]
Psst. Wanna Buy a Gentleman’s Club – Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink, Say No More (contd)
Buy now from the ‘most credible and reassuring person to make Thailand his home’. DREW NOYES SELLS UP Drew Noyes and Wanrapa Boonsu, the American-Thai couple convicted of extortion and jailed for two years in Pattaya, have put up their ‘nest egg’ businesses for sale while they await the result of their appeal due to be […]
BBC Tackles Systematic Fraud in Thailand
‘THERE IS NO LAW ON PHUKET!’ A long awaited report by the BBC’s South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head went to air yesterday on BBC2 in the UK. It is difficult to guess what affect it will have if any; but it was good to see the BBC dealing with frauds against foreigners in Thailand, […]
APPEAL COURT CONFIRMS ANDY HALL’S ACQUITTAL IN NATURAL FRUIT CASE
BUT NO PINA COLADAS ALL AROUND As the Natural Fruit Company of Thailand continues drearily and seemingly spitefully to pursue British Rights Activist Andy Hall in ‘David and Goliath’ criminal libel and computer crime cases, the Appeal Court has confirmed his acquittal on his first case. The Thai military junta and Thailand’s equivalent to the […]
KOH TAO MURDERS: ‘SEARCHING FOR THE TRUTH’
Article removed Yesterday in this slot we published the views of an online publisher with 18 years experience in the Samui archipelago on the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on Koh Tao. The publisher has been in contact and asked for removal of this article on the grounds that the comments were ‘private […]
THAI COURT CHARGES A £500 FOR RETURN OF BRIT TOURIST’S PASSPORT
HIS CRIME – POKING FUN AT JUDGES’ DINNER HOST A British tourist was today charged 30,000 Thai baht (£540) by a court in Thailand for the return of his passport on a charges of a defaming someone by sharing a story from this site on Facebook! picture: Ally Cooper ‘gobsmacked’ Alastair Cooper, 40, an oil […]
THAI GOVERNMENT SUSPENDS CREDIBILITY IN ;LATEST ARREST
INTO THE MOUTH OF THE CROCODILE As the Thai military led government tightens its grip on the throat of the media in the country it has now arrested and is in the processing of re-educating Nation columnist Pravit Rojanaphruk. The former Chevening scholar, Reuters Fellow at the University of the Philippines and son of a […]
KOH TAO MURDERS – DID SCOTLAND YARD AND THE FOREIGN OFFICE SCREW UP?
THAI WATERTIGHT MURDER CASE HAS BEEN RIPPED OPEN ON KOH TAO – BUT COULD SCOTLAND YARD’S INVOLVEMENT SEAL FATE OF YOUNG BURMESE? And does DNA taken from hoe match Thai cop investigators or killers at large THE HOE So now we now have evidence that DNA taken from the hoe – the principal weapon in […]
BBC University Challenge Champion In Breakout From Thailand
YOUR STARTER FOR TEN – NO CONFERRING How do you get past Thai Immigration controls? Thor Halland second from left. the BBC’s Jeremy Paxman third in from right Thor Halland a member of the Birkbeck College, London, team which won BBC TV’s University Challenge in 2003, has been released from jail in Thailand and will […]
ARREST WARRANT: THE TORN NET OF THAI JUSTICE CLOSES IN ON PATTAYA’S FAKE LAWYERS
SIXTY DAY COUNT DOWN TO THAI JUSTICE IN PATTAYA An arrest warrant has been issued for Brian Goudie, the convicted criminal, who set up home in Thailand posing as a barrister and former officer in the Royal Marines, to make money out of tourists and expats. The warrant was issued on the same day that […]