THAILAND’S MOST FAMOUS BARRISTER RETURNS TO THE BAR
FROM THE ‘JAGGIE THISTLE TO THE WIG AND PEN?’ Flying Sporran’s Diary First picture of Goude in Thailand, outside his personal collection Brian Goudie, 48, by now probably Thailand’s most famous fake barrister is back home in premises on the eastern seaboard formerly known as the lair of Ulster drugs trafficker Jimmy ‘Doc’ Halliday. I […]
BRIT WALKS FROM THAI MURDER CHARGE
BUT PARENTS OF VICTIM HAVE DOUBTS A 23-year-old Briton who allegedly pushed his pal of a balcony off a Bangkok apartment to his death in June 2013 has been acquitted of a murder charge but fined the equivalent of £30 on minor drugs charges, at Bangkok Criminal court. James Anthony Durnan walked free from the […]
BLIND EYE TO MURDER? – BANKS ACCUSED OF COLLUDING WITH BANGKOK BOILER ROOMS
BANGKOK BOILER ROOM KING WORTH US$150 MILLION A story in the South China Morning Post yesterday may give a further clue to readers why I am not in Thailand today, or specifically where the threats come from. From an initial investigation by Drummondfor ‘The Times’ Written by colleague Benjamin Robertson a journalist colleague and financial writer […]
THE LONG ARM OF A PHONY BARRISTER –
The Flying Sporran’s Thai Country Diary Two second rate fraudsters seem annoyed at the fact that that journalist Andrew Drummond the author of this site has left Thailand claiming he has breached bail and they will pursue him all the way to the white cliffs of Dover and beyond to seek retribution. Brian Goudie, our […]
ANDREW DRUMMOND QUITS THAILAND AFTER 25 YEARS – STATEMENT
British journalist Andrew Drummond has quit Thailand after 25 years covering Southeast Asia from the Thai capital Bangkok. The primary reasons were a direct threat to the safety of himself and his three children from foreign criminals in Thailand working in liaison with the Thai Police and Thailand’s Crime Computer Crime Act, which he […]
ANOTHER ‘GOOD’ DAY FOR THAI JUSTICE
SCOT FREE! Lumsden The Supreme Court has overruled an Appeal Court Judgment in favour of British journalist Andrew Drummond, which was described as ‘demonstrating a fundamental respect for investigative journalism in Thailand’. In reversing the decision the Supreme Court stated the Drummond under Section 328 of the criminal code had libeled James Lumsden a former […]
THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES – PATTAYA TIMES LEAVES A BLOT ON THE LANDSCAPE
THAILAND’S MILITARY HONOUR GUARD FOR PATTAYA BLACKMAILERS A sign above a supermarket till in Pattaya harks back to happier times for would-be newspaper magnate Drew Walter Noyes. Even though the Pattaya Times is no more. here is a reminder of a newspaper so unique in its structure and content that it should at least be […]
BBC LEADS THE CHARGE ON THAI ‘THAINESS’ DAY
BANGKOK AIRPORT! COMING SOON ON BBC – WITH THE OBLIGATORY LADYBOY It had to happen, There’s been a documentary by British television of the major airports in Britain. Then there have been documentary series on places like Dubai and more…. How does this translate in Thailand? Just wait. As the military asks citizens to […]
FINANCIAL ADVISER AND LAW FIRM MANAGER AT HAMMER AND TONGS
THERE WILL BE BLOOD IN BANGKOK! What happens when you put a Bangkok financial adviser together with the foreign managing director of a typical foreign controlled local law firm in Thailand and put them into the Thai property business? Graham Macdonald MBE and Greg Pitt Well almost certainly it seems there will be a […]
MURDER SHE SAID! Hell Angells, A Child Bride, A Mispent Dowry and Shots In The Night
POLICE ACCUSED OF COVERING UP ANOTHER MURDER OF FOREIGNER Thai Police have been accused of the cover up in the murder of another foreigner – this one shot three times with two guns in the north eastern Thai province of Chaiyaphum. Local police have closed the file on the murder of Jawad Rasheed Khan, who […]
