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THE CURSE OF THE BLUE DIAMOND LIFTED ON THAI POLICE GENERAL – JOHNNY WALKER RIDES TO RESCUE
(Pic: Chalor at the time of his arrest) IN PRISON HE WAS TREATED LIKE ROYALTY The Thai General who was released from prison yesterday after serving nineteen years of a life sentence for murder actually lived the ‘Life of Reilly‘ in prison in Thailand – despite originally being sentenced to death, according to a fellow […]
HIGH SEAS DRAMA – POLICE SEEK MYSTERY INHABITANT OF THAI ROCK
Thai police are searching for a businessman to whom a money changing company sent Bt120 million which was intercepted by pirates, according to today’s Bangkok Post. Police have so far recovered over over 50 million baht. The capture of the six pirates came after Tangthai Banmahing, a representative of the money changing firm Sahasup International, […]
‘I remember saying ‘Die just die’ in my head –
THAI DELEGATE BEATEN TO DEATH AFTER HESITATING WITH HER SECURITY PASS A 35-year-old security guard at Scotland’s Exhibition and Conference Centre in Glasgow has admitted beating a Thai woman delegate to death with a fire extinguisher after she was hesitant about producing her pass. Clive Carter told the High Court in Glasgow: “When I was […]
PATTAYA BRIT TAKEN INTO CUSTODY IN ‘JIMMY SAVILE’ CHILD SEX ABUSE ENQUIRY
A former Pattaya Brit, Ray Teret, a chauffeur to disgraced British celebrity Jimmy Savile, has been taken into custody by British police in Manchester. A spokeswoman for Greater Manchester Police said: “A 71 year-old-man was re-arrested in connection with historic sexual offences against children when he answered his bail on Wednesday October 23.” “He was […]
SANTIKA NIGHT CLUB FIRE WHITEWASH?
THE BANGKOK POST DESCRIBED THIS AS A WHITEWASH. No fall guy for an illegal club operation as Godfather owner goes free- The owner of the Santika Night Club in Bangkok which burned down killing 67 people and injuring another 200, some seriously, today walked free from the Appeal Court after they found him not guilty. […]
ANDREW DRUMMOND WEBSITE TOPS A QUARTER OF A MILLION READERS IN THAILAND
Last night this website topped 250,000 readers in the last month which is worth having a small beer to celebrate. Today it also should top that amount. The counter resets itself each day at 7 am. I think it will settle down at around this level. Good news all around. Although we are about three […]
BANGKOK’S BOILER ROOM BOYS – A MAJOR EXODUS –
EXODUS! GETTING OUT OF THE HEAT Reliable sources are today reporting that Bangkok’s boiler room operators are now in the final stages of a hasty evacuation of the Thai capital and relocating to Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta. It is not clear what sparked off the sudden exodus but an international operation against the illegal share […]
‘I HAVE A CLEAN RECORD’ SAYS FORMER DANISH GANGSTER –
‘I DO MEDIA TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE’ – FOREIGN POLICE CHIEF AND PUBLISHER- A SALUTE TO NIELS COLOV- (Picture:Old days. Niels Colov in his Copenhagen apartment) The leader of Pattaya city’s Police Foreign Volunteers has broken his silence about his past to give an exclusive interview to the advertising rag ‘Pattaya Trader’. Asked whether he […]
PHONEY BRITISH BARRISTER SAYS HE WILL NOT FACE COURT IN PATTAYA
GOUDIE APPOINTS FORMER MELBOURNE PIMP TO BE HIS REPRESENTATIVE (Picture the Koh Samui Dream Team -David Hanks, lawyer, Goudie) A British citizen who was been operating a law firm in Thailand claiming to a British barrister and former Captain in the Royal Marines said he will not go to Pattaya Provincial Court to present a […]
BRITISH JOURNALIST ACQUITTED OF LIBEL – AGAIN
British journalist Andrew Drummond – of this website – was today acquitted of libel at a Pattaya Court in a case brought by Wanrapa Boonsu, the common-law-wife of Drew Noyes, a controversial American figure in the Thai resort city. An identical case brought by Drew Noyes himself had already been rejected by judges at Pattaya […]
