SEND THREE AND FOURPENCE WE’RE GOING TO A DANCE- KOH TAO MURDER TRIAL
‘I didn’t think checking the CCTV of the boats was relevant – nor was it worth checking the murder weapon’ I have been following the trial of the two young Burmese on Koh Samui and have been totally absorbed. It seems now reading the international press that few people outside Thailand believe in Thai justice […]
INTERPRETER COMES FORWARD TO HELP IN FOREIGN COURT CASE – SHOCK –
HUMAN RIGHTS COMEDY IN THAILAND CONTINUES – Human Rights Watch is not surprisingly up in arms against the proposed constitution of the Thai National Human Rights Commission, one of which is a notorious supporter of the lèse majesté laws under which anybody can be locked up for saying something which somebody not the King believes is […]
THAILAND AWAITS NEWS OF ANOTHER NAVAL VICTORY – AS BRITAIN’S GUARDIAN PILES ON THE SCANDAL
LEFT HAND DOWN A BIT! ITS THE THAI NAVY LARK The credibility of Thailand took another blow today as the Guardian newspaper followed up on its report last year on slavery in the Thai fishing industry making it quite clear, if we were in any doubt, that officials were complicit in the trafficking of Rohingya […]
WHO OWNS WHAT IN BOILER ROOM BANGKOK
COMING SOON A BOILER ROOM GUIDE TO COMPANY NOMINEES Apologies for a break in transmissions here but several long term enquiries are coming to a head; I am still in a learning curve with regards to the new U.K. -and then, of course, I have been meeting up with old colleagues while raising kids 24/7. […]
‘With my broken heart and trembling hands I write this’
‘The pile of injustice in Thailand and the FBI from America is way too high for a 78 year old lady to cope with.’ I have just received a letter from the 78-year-old mother of Greg Miller, the American who died while in custody awaiting an appeal on child sexual abuse charges. That Greg […]
TEACHER IN CONTROVERSIAL SEX ABUSE CASE DIES UNDER GUARD
SHE TRIED TO SAVE HER SON FROM CROOKS AND INJUSTICE – BUT HE DIED THROUGH LACK OF CARE IN THE THAI JUSTICE SYSTEM An American mother, aged 77, who was allegedly swindled out of almost US$300,000 by a fake British lawyer in Pattaya who promised to defend her son Greg Miller on child sexual abuse […]
AMERICAN ‘HERO’ WHO DISAPPEARED IN THE ANDAMAN SEA HAD HIS OWN PROPERTY COMPANY
BROTHER-IN-LAW ‘BROKE KNEE CAPS FOR THE MAFIA’ The offer of a US$5000 reward this week for information about the death of American serviceman and Iraq veteran Josh Devine in the Andaman Sea in April comes as the family back home fails to get any closure on the mystery. Joshua Devine, 36, a ‘Soldier of the […]
FLY CHINA SOUTHERN AND DON’T SEE THE WORLD
Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary (CONTD) While I have touched on the subject of human rights in China Raymond, Raymond Chang the Chinese American student who is singing about US Chinese détente might be better singing about something closer to home and more immediate – that is the deportation from Thailand over 100 Uyghurs last week […]
SAMUI ASSAULT MAN SINGS TO ALLEVIATE WORLD POVERTY – EXCEPT TRUCULENT POOR AUSSIES
‘NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE -NO MATTER WHERE YOU COME FROM’ (except Melbourne) Flying Sporran’s Weekend |Dairy Raymond Chang – one of the two Chinese Americans of the Shanghai American School who have been charged with the vicious attack on Jack Hansen-Bartel in Koh Samui last year has made a video to promote China’s friendship […]
INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE IN THAILAND – AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
Jack Hansen-Bartel, with mask, behind Andy Hall, with defence lawyer at court today It seemed a sober moment, perhaps even a warning to the media just as the controversial murder trial of the accused killers of British backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller was due to start on the Thai island of Koh Samui. “The […]
