murder

THAI JUSTICE ON TRIAL The trial over the controversial  murders of British backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller is to start in a few hours time on the Thai holiday island of Koh Samui. But first the judges will have to rule whether the defence will be allowed to examine DNA evidence and the method […]

FROM AN ENGLISH CHILDREN’S HOME TO SAMUI COURT As the days draw closer to the day when two young Burmese men go on trial on the Thai island of  Koh Samui for the rape and murder of Hannah Witheridge and the murder of David Miller on nearby Koh Tao, and after a young British woman was […]

Bangkok Post Two young graduates were jailed for five years to, reduced to two and a half because they pleaded guilty, on lèse majesté charges in Bangkok.  The news travelled quickly around the world but what seemed to come across was how dignified the students have actually behaved. Patiwat Saraiyaem, 23, and Porntip Mankong had […]

SHOW US YOUR PROOF – LAWYERS SAY. “All Brit wanted was ‘love’” Lawyers representing Shane Looker, the 45-year-old Briton accused of murdering a Bangkok prostitute, chopping up her body, putting it in a suitcase and throwing it into a river have reacted furiously to an attempt by Thai Police to put out an Interpol Red […]

#JohnFintanBrett ALLEGED ROMANCE WITH POLICEMAN’S DAUGHTER A former school supervisor and goalkeeper for Sligo Rovers FC has been found dead in north east Thailand near the Cambodia under suspicious circumstances. John Fintan Brett, 68, whose named also featured in the  Sligo College expenses scandal  trials was found in a house in the provincial capital of […]

‘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 […]

Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary Yesterday in the UK the Guardian published a very good article about the plight of the two young Burmese charged with the murder of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the Thai island of Kho Tao. The article carried criticism of Scotland Yard and the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in […]

 WHILE BRITAIN’S AMBASSADOR TARGETS THAI MEDIA –  Protesters demanding an British government investigation into the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller were successful today in handing their petition into the British Prime Minister David Cameron at 10 Downing Street. The demo attracted quite a large crowd  including Burmese and Thai – although as usual only […]

FACEBOOK FRIEND ‘KILLER’ FOUND RUNNING A MOBILE PHONE SHOP Police in India have arrested the alleged man wanted for the murder of a wealthy American socialite in Bangkok two years ago. Ritesh Sanghvi, 28, was arrested under warrant issued by the Special Extradition Court  in Delhi. Its alleged stabbed Wendy Albano, 52, from South Tampa, […]

As international human rights agencies seeks clarification on a controversial Thai murder investigation, staff at the Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok send a team to Koh Samui A Burmese migrant worker ngo also has sent a team to Koh Samui where the suspects are being held. But police chief Police General Somyot Pumpunmuang denies they are scapegoats. And […]