David Hanks

AND NOW HE’S A CASE STUDY IN A PATTAYA LEGAL SEMINAR ON LIBEL! FLYING SPORRAN’S MID-WEEK DIARY The news of the jailing of British journalist Andrew Drummond by Drew Noyes, the American former publisher of the now defunct Pattaya Times, who is currently on trial for extortion, may be slightly exaggerated. Drummond was this week […]

Three expatriates colluded together to discredit a British journalist and shut him up after he exposed their activities in Thailand, a court in Bangkok heard yesterday. Using Thailand’s criminal libel and computer data act they issued multiple law suits and tried to put British journalist Andrew Drummond in jail or deprive him of his resources, […]

Having failed to offer up the former ‘Jaggie Thistle’ pub and guesthouse in Jomtien on Thailand’s eastern seaboard to buy himself off criminal charges for fraud, fake lawyer Brian Goudie has lost an entire month’s worth of entries from his internet Blogspot devoted to attacking this site. This will not be an act of contrition, […]

Apologies. This is a photo-shopped photo of what Goudie looked like – except that his hair was closely cropped. Court officials declined a request to take a photo on the court premises. Pic: Weapon GOUDIE GIVES INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST THE FINGER BEFORE BEING LED BACK TO JAIL- ORDERED TO HAND BACK CONDO – Brian Goudie, aka […]

AN INCREDIBLE TALE OF LIES, DECEIT, FRAUD, AND FANTASY IN THAILAND Former Ulster godfather Jimmy ‘Doc’ Halliday, perhaps one of the meanest drugs traffickers Northern Ireland has produced, managed to get some of his ill-gotten gains to Thailand, despite a British court order seizing his assets as the proceeds of crime. But Halliday could not […]

Fake barrister Brian Goudie went truly on the run yesterday after not unexpectedly failing, despite his promise, to surrender to bail for defrauding an American woman out of US$300,000. In a day fraught with angst for the 47-year-old con man from Falkirk, Scotland, who has been posing in Thailand as a barrister and former officer […]

FROM HIDING BRIAN GOUDIE SAYS HE WOULD LIKE TO SAVE HIS THAI PARTNER – ‘BUT I JUST DON’T HAVE THE CASH’ – SO NOMINEE MANAGING DIRECTOR* MAY HAVE TO GO TO JAIL! (David Hanks and Brian Goudie with their Thai counsel) A fugitive Scot, who posed as a lawyer and a former officer of the […]

 MIXED MESSAGES AT PATTAYA COURT British journalist Andrew Drummond was today further acquitted of libel under the Computer Crime Act but a charge ruled him guilty of criminal libel for allowing two letters sent in by readers to be posted on the site www.andrew-drummond.com. He is appealing the latter judgment. Drummond was fined 40,000 baht […]

Stay There You F**K**G C***T! And I’m Going To Smash Your Face In’ Tis the season to be jolly tra-la-la-la-la – la-la-la-la.  Well not so perhaps at One Stop Legal Services down Pattaya way when British pensioner Kenneth Blundell called today to terminate their services. Shortly after 3.30 pm I took a call from Kenny, […]

A journalist who exposed the activities of a fake Scottish lawyer in Thailand in the Scottish Sunday Mail has been acquitted of charges of criminal libel and breaching the Computer Crime Act in Thailand. A case brought by Brian Goudie, 47,  formerly known as Brian Goldie, from Falkirk, was summarily dismissed by judges in Pattaya, […]