Television
How C4 Dispatches Betrayed My Trust
The Times Friday May 14 1999 A C4 expose of the trade in Thai women to the British sex industry should have dealt a blow to traffickers. Instead it may have endangered some of those who took part, says Andrew DrummondOn April 29 smart blue flyers were inserted into newspapers throughout Britain posing the question: ‘Is […]
Murder In Chiang Mai
Murder in Chiang MaiTimes 2 Cover Story Thursday August 17 2000Kirsty Jones was found dead in a backpackers’ guesthouse in Thailand seven days ago. She had been strangled with her sarong. Other guests have given conflicting accounts. Drugs have been found, and police made errors. Andrew Drummond reports from Chiang MaiThe sign says: ‘Don’t nibble. […]
Burma's Forgotten Allies – Observer Magazine
When Burma allied itself with Japan during World War II in the hope of gaining independence from the British, one sector of the population remained loyal to the Crown – the Karen hill people. They have suffered for it ever since. Andrew Drummond reports from the Burma-Thai border, where the Karen are now fighting for […]
A Gleaming Model Of What Investigative Reporting On TV
REVIEWS Time Out December 8 198620/20 Vision: No Man Mants to die: 10.30-11.30 20/20 to C4A gleaming model of what investigative reporting on TV should be. Punchy, hastily re-written, and updated ‘No Man Wants to Die’ reports on Derrick Gregory imprisoned in Malaysia and facing that country’s mandatory death sentence for heroin smuggling.”””””””””””” Today Dec 8 1986Tonight’s television […]
The Sex Slave Trade – LWT For Channel 4 Dispatches
The Sex Slave Trade – LWT for Channel 4 Dispatches (Secret filming) April 29 1999Credit: Investigation in Thailand by Andrew DrummondEarly in 1999 Andrew Drummond was contacted by London Weekend Television. Their Factual Programming Department had put in a proposal to make a programme for Channel 4 Dispatches on the trafficking of women into Britain to […]
Burma's Forgotten War
Andrew Drummond together with a crew from Twenty Twenty Television travelled on foot for the BBC into the Karen State of Burma ‘Kawthoolei’ to investigate the widespread killings and rapes by Burmese Army (Tatmadaw) troops on the civilian population.No other journalists had been allowed such free access throughout Kawthoolei, as the Karen called their own […]
Death Of A Backpacker
Andrew Drummond’s articles for ‘The Times’, ‘Mail on Sunday’ and ‘Sunday Times’ in the U.K. highlighted an irregular police investigation into the death of Kirsty Jones, a 23-old-backpacker from Wales, who was murdered and raped in the Aree guest house in Thailand’s northern capital of Chiang Mai in August 2000.It is a controversy that remains to […]
Unmasked: Drug Baron Who Got Away/ No Man Wants To Die
‘No Man Wants to Die’ Twenty Twenty Television for Channel 4, U.K.Credit: Investigation by Andrew Drummond. This was an investigation in to the British heroin syndicate which recruited Derrick Gregory, 32, an unemployed Briton with a history of mental illness, to smuggle heroin out of Malaysia.While reporting on the conviction and execution of Australians Geoffrey Chambers and […]
