NO BAIL TO APPEAL GRANTED TO SCOTTISH CONMAN WITH THAI LAW OFFICE! A Scottish con man who posed as a barrister, and former officer in the Royal Marines to cheat an elderly lady out of 7.8 million baht (just under US$218,000) was sent straight to jail without being given bail to appeal today. Having been […]

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 […]

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 […]

‘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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]