Thailand

  British journalist Andrew Drummond has quit Thailand after 25 years covering Southeast Asia from the Thai capital Bangkok. The primary reasons were a direct threat to the safety of himself and his three children from foreign criminals in Thailand working in liaison with the Thai Police and Thailand’s Crime Computer Crime Act, which he […]

PLUS – COVERING UP A SUSPICIOUS DEATH ON KOH PHANGAN. Shot three times on the bed but where’s the blood? And why did things in the crime scene keep moving? Apologies to readers for the lack of pace in recent stories. That’s because I have had to go and spend time researching.  I have been […]

ELEPHANT ON RAMPAGE WITH MUM AND 8-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER A woman tourist and her young daughter were taken on a terrifying three kilometer ride on the back of a raging elephant which first trampled its mahout to death, Thai television reported tonight. Posing happily at the start of the ride – PICTURE ASTV The woman and […]

OH NO! – THAI POLICE RETHINK PLAN TO ASK PEOPLE TO REPORT CRIME ONLINE. AMERICAN ‘BLACKMAILER’  RAN CRIME SUPPRESSION AND CRIME REPORTING SITE FROM ‘LAW OFFICE’ IN SIN CITY! A joint venture between Thai Police and an American businessmen to catch foreign criminals has had to be abandoned after the American was found guilty of […]

WHO IS WATCHING THAILAND’S ‘MEDICAL HUB’ CLINICS? The death of 24-year-old Joy Williams while under anaesthetic at the SP Clinic in Lard Prao, Bangkok, continues to get a lot of space in the British Press – not least because a lot of Britons come to Bangkok and other parts of Thailand as part of ‘medical […]

On the day British police finally made it to the Thai island of Koh Tao the scene of the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller, Britain’s Foreign Office has stated that it is concerned not only about the alleged mistreatment of the two Burmese men now held in Koh Samui jail but also concerned […]

The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office has intensified its travel advisory to Thailand focusing on the Samui Archipelago, the scene of the recent murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller. It warns of unprovoked attacks whether by individuals or in gangs and now includes Koh Tao in addition to Koh Samui and Koh Phangan. The […]

ANOTHER RED HERRING? Thai PBS Television claimed today that one of the killers of David Miller and Hannah Witheridge stole Miller shorts after the murders on the holiday island of Koh Tao on Monday. PBS claims that CCTV footage shows a suspicious character running past the camera from the direction of the crime scene. The […]

‘Somewhere in this life there must be a place, an experience, an encounter, that changes everything!’ FLYING SPORRAN’S WEEKEND DIARY These are the opening titles to the film trailer for ‘The Beach’ from the novel by Alex Garland, at one time a backpacker’s bible. ‘The Beach’ in question chosen for the film was ‘Maya Beach’ […]

SUSPECTS ZERO – ESCAPE ROUTES OPEN – AND BURMESE TAKE THE BRUNT OF POLICE OPERATIONS. Thai Police were today raiding the homes and workplaces of more Burmese migrant workers on the Thai holiday island of Koh Tao after DNA tests showed no matches with any former suspects in the murders of Britons Hannah Witheridge and […]