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From Andrew Drummond, BangkokAugust 1 2009 Link to the ObserverThe Foreign and Commonwealth office has admitted it has lost track of the Briton who fathered Samanatha Orobator’s baby in a jail in Laos as prison welfare workers express fear for his life.47-yr-old John Watson was removed from Phonthong Prison for foreigners in the country’s capital Vientiane […]

Briton arrested for third time for child abuse as Britain’s CEOP faces criticismJuly 22 2009A British property developer, whose family owned large estates in Ireland, has been arrested for the third time in the Thai beach resort of Pattaya for child sex abuse.Robert Alexander Horsman, 45, from Ipswich, was first arrested in March 2006. Then […]

Link to the Daily Mail Link to The Guardian Link to the SUNLink to Daily Express Link to The IndependentLink to Metro Link to BBC; Link to Sky News  Link to Daily TelegraphLink to Daily Mirror Link to Daily Star From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok,Pictures: Andrew Chant &  BC PicturesJuly 12 2009A fourteen-yr-old British boy died at Thai theme Water Park after […]

I very rarely lose it but I am absolutely disgusted at comments allowed on Thai Visa.com in the news cuttings section ‘Boy drowned under whirpool in Pattaya Park’ and this is after censorship by the board’s moderators. This is about a 14-year-old boy Nathan Clark a British boy who drowned a couple of days ago. […]

Lady boy of Bangkok walks off with Australian Navy’s little secrets An Australian Naval officer has lost his official computer after picking up a ‘lady boy’ in a Bangkok red light area. Nana Plaza The officer Lt. Commander Peter De Maskens, a qualified helicopter pilot, was in Bangkok on official business  and had gone out […]

From Andrew Drummond, BangkokTuesday June 30th 2009Pictures: Andrew ChantLink to Daily Mail storyA retired British surveyor who survived an attempted assassination by communist rebels in the Philippines has been found murdered with his throat cut during a robbery at his home.The body of Paul Roberts, 61, was found by his 12-yr-old son Daniel at their […]

Friends and relatives are to host a memorial party to a 21-yr-old DJ from Surrey,  who,  they say,  needlessly drowned in Thailand after authorities in the holiday island of Phuket cut down on beach safety procedures. Last week James Patton, 21, from Beacon Hill, Hindhead, was the third tourist to drown in two days on […]

Two suspected paedophiles have had a former Thai police volunteer arrested in the Thai resort of Pattaya for harassment and blackmail. The two paedophiles,  a Swede and a Briton, whose names have been withheld, had both agreed to pay ?2000 and ?3000 respectively for indulging in under age sex with young boys. One withdrew the […]

This is a blog only Scripps as one of the 101 dalmations. Not your average serial killer No sooner than I thought I had put the David Carradine story to bed then out came the conspiracy theorists. As readers of this site will know, Carradine was found hanging in a cupboard in his room in the Nai Let Park Hotel […]

British tourist dies as Thai authorities cut down on safety procedures.Link to ScotsmanFrom Andrew Drummond,Bangkok June 8 2009A 21-yr-old pregnant British girl returned home to Heathrow today after her boyfriend became the latest in a series of tragic drownings on the Thai holiday island of Phuket.Bethan Jones, left behind the body of her boyfriend James […]