The question over the use of child soldiers in the conflict of Southern Thailand has raised its head again – this time in a 17 page report by Child Soldiers International. The report today is linked below. Child soldiers have existed for decades if not hundreds of years in this region from kids, some very […]

Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary  ARE YOU KIDDING GENERAL SOMYOT? The author  confronts foreign financial scammers in Bangkok and their Thai fixer who was charged with conspiracy to murder New Zealander Ian Travis The Flying Sporran was gobsmacked to read in the Bangkok Post this week from the head of the Royal Thai Police General Pumpanmuang […]

A story scheduled to appear in the spot has been held over due to yesterday’s attack on ‘Charlie Hebdo’ in Paris. Satire is a vital and essential tool in a journalist’s very limited armoury. Yesterday’s attack reminds us all that there are some societies which tolerate freedom of speech but sometimes journalists pay the penalties […]

COURT CROWDED WITH LAWYERS – AS RICH KIDS JET IN FOR ADJOURNMENT Thai Justice – Judge Admits Simple Case Could Take Years Jack on his own  Bangkok Airways bus Lawyers for two American Chinese rich kids, who allegedly made a severe and unprovoked attack on a graduating pupil from the New International School of Thailand […]

‘BANG, BANG, BANG’, KILLER ON RIVER KWAI MOVES BACK TO HOME TOWN (From the Flying Sporran in Kanchanaburi) Just ten years after being sentenced to death, later reduced to 50 years, and later again reduced to 32 years, Police Sergeant Somchai Wisetsingh, who brutally murdered Britons Adam Lloyd, 24, and Vanessa Arscott,23, in Kanchanburi, has […]

TRADER QUITS BANGKOK HIDEAWAY TO RETURN TO BRITAIN. It may be a lot safer! Runaway Forex Trader Joe Lewis has returned to Britain after being tracked down to hideaway in the thai capital Bangkok. But before packing his bags he denied stories that he had made off with up to £150 million pounds worth of […]

WHERE ARE THE FINANCIAL COPS WHEN YOU NEED ‘EM? Bangkok’s boiler rooms,some of whom have paid vast amounts of cash to Thai police and army officials, have of course conned multi-millions of dollars out of people worldwide – but few of them have actually conned governments. Now Croatia is waking up to the fact that […]

Sean McAnna leaving Koh Tao Koh Phangan island police in Thailand have ruled there is no foul play in the suicide of a French national who apparently hanged himself in a small rented beach hut in Koh Tao district. This may have sent a chill down the spines of people who heard the account of […]

Well – A Happy New Year – to readers of this site. Now back in town with the kids and normal service will be resumed. Since I last posted I appear to have chased a major wanted British figure from his hide-away in Bangkok. More of that later. And meanwhile instead of the beach (one […]

Attwood ‘I’VE BEEN BURNED’ SAYS SCOTTISH FRAUDSTER A fake British barrister but real convicted thief tried to do a deal with the British Embassy to issue full travel documents to a British career criminal who was being deported after serving time on drugs charges. Brian Goudie, pretending to be a British lawyer entered into discussions […]