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Military In Thailand and Forced Disappearances

October 22, 2015, 6:55 am
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Thailand's increasingly paranoaic military led government is now being accused of operating 'enforced disappearances' a technique used widely in the past in South American banana republics. 

The following is a statement issued today by Thai Lawyers for Human Rights.

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Statement on Enforced Disappearance and Detention in Temporary Remand Facility in Military Camp: The case of Mr. Suriyan Sucharitpolawong and 2 other persons.

            22 October 2015

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In the evening of 16 October 2015, some media reported that Mr.Suriyan Sucharitpolawong  was taken from his residence by state officials for allegedly committing a lèse majesté offence under Article 112 of the Thai Criminal Code. 
On the same day, Police Colonel Akaradech Pimolsri, the Chief of the Crime Suppression Division, denied that the Division did not arrest Suriyan, and had no plan to arrange a press conference as it was rumored. However, Suriyan did not appear in public again until 21 October when the police and military officers brought Suriyan and other 2 persons to the Bangkok Military Court.
Mr. Suriyan was considered to be a victim of enforced disappearance during the 6 days, from 16 October 2015 to 21 October 2015, according to International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CED), that is, he was taken under the detention in which the authority denied the deprivation of liberty and disclosure of place of confinement. 
This occurrence means that during the period from the arrest to the day of police’s submission of pre-trial detention request to the Military Court when he reappeared to public, Suriyan was placed outside the protection of the law with no disclosure of fate and whereabouts. 
Thailand cannot use exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency as a justification for enforced disappearance, as the Convention affirms that the right to be free from enforced disappearance is a non-derogable right in all circumstances. 
Thailand has a commitment to not act in a manner that is contrary to the purpose of the Treaty after its signing of the Convention on 9 January 2012, although Thailand has yet to ratify it. 
The detention by military and security forces under the Order of the Head of the National Council for Peace and Order No. 3/2558, which grants military and security personnel the power to summon an individual, when there is sufficient reason to suspect that individual has committed an offence, to give a deposition, and to detain an individual for not more than seven days in a place that is not authorized detention facilities, is a serious threat to the rights of a person accused of criminal charges and justice system. 
It was reported that during the detention by military personnel, Mr. Suriyan and 2 other detainees had confessed to the accusation and implicated others, leading to criminal prosecution and issuance of arrest warrants against themselves. 
This falls into the case that a person who was not formally informed of criminal charges and not yet an accused in a criminal case was interrogated without a presence of lawyer during the process. 
In principle, an accused has a right to have a lawyer, a person who was only a suspect and was not yet being pressed any criminal charges must have a guarantee to the same rights. In addition, any confessions and implications made or obtained during an incommunicado detention in an unclosed place, with no guarantee of rights and no monitoring mechanisms, might have been obtained by unlawful methods and should not be used as evidence in a criminal case. 
Moreover, the detention of Mr. Suriyan and other two accused charged with violating a lèse majesté offence under Article 112 at the Nakhon Chaisri temporary remand facility inside the 11th Military Circle, established for detaining an accused charged with offences related to national security, which separates the accused from civilian imprisonment in normal prisons to a specific remand facility operated by military, may compromise the rights of detainees to family visit or access to legal counsel. It is concerning that monitoring and checking on a detention in the facility on military base might be impracticable. For instance, On 23 September 2015, a lawyer was denied access to visit Mr. Adem Karadag, an accused in the Erawan Shrine Bombing. 
The detention of civilians in the military area lacks transparency, guarantees of rights of detainees, and may lead to other human rights violations. It may amount to an arbitrary detention and a violation of international human rights law and obligations including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. 
(ICCPR), in particular Article 9 - prohibit of arbitrary detention, Article 10 - detainee’s treatment with humanity and with respect for the inherent dignity of the human person, and Article 14 - the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty. 
The Thai Lawyers for Human Rights demands an end to a detention in an undisclosed place, including the detention of a person in the Nakorn Chaisri temporary remand facility on a military base and controlled by military personnel. Should the country return to peace and order, it is essential that the justice administration as a function of accountability must be reliable and the rights and freedoms of people must be guaranteed. 
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...And meanwhile in the United States Drew Noyes is ranting again

October 23, 2015, 4:59 am
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But can he get bar girl ex-wife to look after him?



While judges in Pattaya were being told that his ex-wife Nittaya was flying to the United States to look after children by her and Wanrapa Boonsu Noyes was busy telling people that he was being acquitted of extortion.

This is presumably for the benefit of his audience in Jeffersen City, Tennessee, where he has busy telling people of his friendship with the Thai Royal family and military government.

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'Life is good' he says after driving three of his children to school today. His face tells a different story. And the kids look like they are being driven to a military academy - unless he prefers they dress in camouflage.

Wanrapa was of course not getting a court date so he could return to hear of his acquittal. She had to face the judge alone who told her that a warrant of arrest would be issued if he did not return forthwith.

Noyes talks about a 'major case' - not that he was charged with extortion which involved demands of US196,000 to a business to be allowed operate in the seamy sex resort of Pattaya, Thailand.

Perhaps he is praying that Nittaya will be allowed a visa to fly over an act as his maid putting the traditional good old Mexican American out of work. I was certainly praying for my Karen nurse to get one.

He has not been able to do the visa through his old chum Brian Wright boss of US Immigration Law in Bangkok - also known as My Thai Fiancee.  This is because Brian has been convicted of child abuse.

Of course if he had been so sure of his acquittal he would have gone back to Thailand which is where his sister Katherine tells callers where he is.

Could he be dreaming of the 'Bat Cave?'

Never mind Drew.  Life is fun with three kids - but it can bring on early dementia - and you can't just nip out to the 'a-go-go'.

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BOILER ROOM 'KIDNAPPER' HELD IN CAMBODIA

October 24, 2015, 4:59 am
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EXPOSED ON ANDREW-DRUMMOND.COM

James Guido Eglitis saves Aussies the cost of extradition

An Australian con-man and former boiler room loader, who was exposed on this site last year when he was posing as a private investigator working with Cambodian military police has been arrested with a New Zealander for robbery with violence.


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James Guido Eglitis, 66,who at the time claimed to be running an investigation into the disappearance and death of Canadian journalist Dave Walker, was arrested together with New Zealand National Brett Michael Hastie, 44.
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They are accused of robbing David Scotcher an English teacher in Siem Reap, northern Cambodia making off with only a passport and camera.

Eglitis is also wanted in Queensland for, kidnapping, two counts of deprivation of liberty, robbery with violence, impersonating an Australian Federal Police officer, and possessing restricted items - two sets of handcuffs and an extendable baton. 

He was jailed in the United States for boiler room fraud.

During the hunt for David Walker – a personal friend of this site owner – Eglitis posed as an investigator and even convinced some journalists that he was the real deal.

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But he was exposed here as a serial con man and man with a history of violence. He was claiming to be James An - but we uncovered him as Eglitis a boiler room operator with a long crime history in the United States and Australia - including having outstanding warrants for skipping his kidnap trial.

Eglitis warranted a whole chapter to himself in the book 'Scams and Swindelers' - true stories from the Australian Securities and Investment Commission.

For the original stories go to these links:

http://www.andrew-drummond.com/2014/05/exposed-escaped-kidnapper-lurking.html

http://www.andrew-drummond.com/2014/05/murder-and-mayhem-in-cambodia.html


(Thanks to Admin at Khmer 440)

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BEWARE PATTAYA'S FRIENDLY COURT NEGOTIATORS

October 25, 2015, 5:05 am
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PART I -  There is nothing like a Dane*

This is Jesper Kongerskov. He was one of Pattaya’s Police Volunteer Assistants and in Pattaya this Dane passed himself off as a security expert specializing in personal protection.

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Clik here to view. But from reports reaching this site his other side-line has been personal profit.

Thor Halland, who claims he was framed by a Frenchman and Drew Walter Noyes on charges of extortion,while actually getting his stolen belongings back, said he had been cheated out of some 200,000 baht and Jesper then went on to request his house documents.

And now an American who it has now been accepted by all parties was totally innocent of child sexual abuse has presented records which he claims show he was being asked for some 800,000 Thai baht. Jesper was using the surname Jensen. He also uses the name Leon Christiansen.

Thor Halland was also approached by Mo, an agent working for Unity International Law in Pattaya also had the run of the cells below Pattaya court to seek clients banged up on various charges and managed to squeeze cash out of South African businessman – a story already run on this site.

And of course Brian Goudie, the Scot, sentenced to 3 years for cheating a 78-year-old American woman out of some US$300,000, also trawled the court and prison, sometimes using an agent, looking for business.  In Goudie’s case he even pocketed the bail money for the woman’s son – and her son died in prison.

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In Pattaya Provincial Court a bail bondsman has a desk on the ground floor. A 50,000 loan towards bail will cost you 25,000.


Guilty people do get off, of course. A Japanese charged with child sexual abuse many years ago went back home and then complained to the media that he had been charged 600,000 Thai baht.

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And there appear to be a lot less people in Nong Plalai jail Pattaya on child sexual abuse charges than the number paraded in the Pattaya newspapers.

So there’s a warning here which needs to be repeated.  ‘Justice’ is a matter of price. All Embassies know what is going on.  But be very careful of touts and middlemen.  Normally lawyers are not allowed to roam cell area for custom.  They can go in if they have a client already.

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The American lodged a complaint with Pattaya Police over Kongerskov who claims to work for the Pattaya Police, DSI, CSD and uncle Tom Cobley.  He claimed Kongerskov told him he would be wiped out if he mentioned a word about what had gone on.

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Kongerskov’s boss was of course Niels Colov, the former Copenhagen pimp and underworld figure, who became leader of the Foreign Police Volunteer assistants in Pattaya.  But Kongerskov was acting alone. He had re-invented himself in Pattaya. His last job was with the Danish Supermarket (Dansk Supermarked) chain.
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There is nothing new here though.  Pattaya’s ‘bail men’ have had a notorious reputation and I have had complaints dated back over 20 years.

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Jesper's DS Academy never got off the ground.

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While the above documents are produced in good faith it should be noted that bail bonds men often do not tell the truth and to whom the cash was to be paid is actually quite difficult to ascertain.

But then again - that is how the system is meant to work.

* No slur on Danes intended. The author was born in Denmark
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SCOTLAND YARD UNWITTINGLY ‘LIED’ OVER THAI ISLAND MURDERS

October 27, 2015, 5:19 am
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NOW WILL TWO YOUNG BURMESE GO TO THEIR DEATHS IN BRITISH PUBLIC INTEREST?


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Scotland Yard officers who spent a month in Thailand overseeing the investigation into the murders of Hannah Witheridge were deliberately misled by the Thai Police and passed on their lies to the families of the victims as truths.

Among the key deliberate mistruths to the families was that both Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo not only confessed to the Royal Thai Police, but also confessed in front of court judges.

“It was a total falsehood”, said Andy Hall of Migrant Workers Rights Network who has been assisting the defence team.

Detective Chief Inspector Lyons leader of the Met Police team to Thailand stated in his report that both Burmese confessed 'in front of a judge and in the presence of their own counsel' and he took the matter further by adding ‘the accused have not adduced medical or other evidence which might corroborate their torture claim ‘as if to add substance to the Burmese men's guilt.

In fact that was totally incorrect as well.

 Andy Hall has now stated:

"Medical evidence was indeed submitted to Koh Samui court to support the accused's allegations of physical abuse, torture or mistreatment. In addition, a key prosecution witness testified during court proceedings that Zaw Lin was in much pain after his arrival to Koh Samui prison from a chest wound. The witness testified to seeing that chest wound also."

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Yet he stated: “It is not, and was never intended to be, an attempt to present a case for or against any particular suspect.  It is a summary of the RTP investigation, the evidence collected and the lines of enquiry pursued so far as we saw from our observations.  It was my role to approach the RTP with an open mind, and this was the way in which I approached the drafting of my Report”

And this could have led to the parents of Hannah and David into believing that they only withdrew their confessions when public opinion was on their side – due to the incompetence of the police the report,

Shortly afterwards they  issued statements through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office saying that the evidence against Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo ‘appeared powerful and convincing ‘and also led the Thai police to comment:

‘Relatives of the deceased in the UK have stated that they are confident in the evidence in the Koh Tao case and that the evidence was clear beyond a shadow of doubt’.

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In fact both young Burmese men retracted their confession at the first advance witness hearing on October 14th last year – and only later report the defence’ lawyers,” received information that the two accused alleged beatings and torture were used during their detention, prior to sending on for questioning by investigation officials, to elicit their confessions made involuntarily. "

And the trial of the two accused, says the defence team, has shown the complete opposite. In a 68 final submission (summary published below) they detail the totally illegal aspects of the Thai police investigation.

The torture of the suspects was widely assumed in public opinion because other Burmese on Koh Tao had also been tortured but the Scotland Yard took the word of the Thai police, in information translated by the Thai Police’s own interpreter.  And confessions are the most common way Thai police ‘solve’ a crime.

And when defence lawyers called for access to the metropolitan police report the Met strongly opposed its release claiming public interest over-rode the interest of the two Burmese despite the fact that they faced execution.

This was what was referred to as the ‘chilling effect’. It could destroy trust between international police forces. But at the hearing in the High Court no mention was made of the fact that the Royal Thai Police could in fact be described as almost a ‘mafia’ organization or as the Met claimed: ‘the substantial and adverse effect on law enforcement, fulfillment of public policy and the UK's security objectives’.

Last year its central core, comprising the Central Investigation Bureau and Crime Suppression Division was taken down by the army and had some 80 per cent of its officers replaced.  These units were accused of complicity in everything from oil smuggling to the illegal wildlife and timber trade.

And in significant cases of Britons murdered in Thailand in the past – notably the murder of Kirsty Jones in Chiang Mai and the murders of Vanessa Arscott and Adam Lloyd in Kanchanaburi, Royal Thai Police tried to shift the blame elsewhere – in the case of Kirsty Jones also torturing and attempting to set up a Burmese Karen tour guide.

The Defence Submission:


A team of pro-bono lawyers working under the Lawyers Council of Thailand (LCT) to defend two Myanmar migrant workers accused of the rape and murder of a female British tourist and the murder of a British male tourist on Koh Tao Island, Thailand in September 2014 today submitted a 56 page closing statement as an opinion for Koh Samui Court to consider in issuing a judgement in the case.  
The written statement is the final part of a one year effort by a core team of 7 Thai lawyers supported by Burmese, Australian and British translators, assistants and advisors to ensure a fair trial and adequate defense for the accused. Case witness testimony that ended on 11th October 2015 after 21 days of witness hearings involving 34 witnesses and thousands of pages of evidence has already been widely publicised by the media. Koh Samui Court has appointed both parties to the case on 24th December 2015 to hear a verdict. 
Hannah Witheridge (23) and David Miller (24) were murdered on 15th September 2014 on Koh Tao, a tourist island in the Gulf of Thailand. The murder investigation was widely criticised both domestically and internationally due to alleged mishandling of forensic evidence and alleged torture both of the two accused and migrant workers living on Koh Tao Island. The challenges faced to Thailand's law enforcement and justice systems in this case also cast a serious shadow over the safety of tourism in Thailand. 
On 2nd October 2014, Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo (Win Zaw Htun), 22 year old migrant workers from Rakhine state in Myanmar, were arrested for immigration offences. Additional charges were then laid against them during questioning for rape, murder and theft related to the killings of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller. The two accused signed confessions during interrogation and also publicly and during questioning re-enacted the crimes. 
On 14th October, at a first advance witness hearing in the case, both accused then retracted their confessions to LCT lawyers. Later on defense lawyers received information that the two accused alleged beatings and torture were used during their detention, prior to sending on for questioning by investigation officials, to elicit their confessions made involuntarily. The Migrant Worker Rights Network (MWRN) and rights groups called on the LCT to provide trained lawyers for the accused to ensure they could adequately defend themselves against all the charges so as to ensure a fair trial and also importantly to guard against a potential miscarriage of. justice in such a highly publicised and tragic case. 
A two month delay in prosecuting the accused resulted from extensive media and diplomatic attention towards the case in addition to calls for justice by the accused, their families and the wider public. This resulted in further questioning of the accused that confirmed that both maintained their complete innocence and insisted their confessions came about involuntary as a result of torture. Multiple criminal charges were then filed against Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo on 4th December 2014 by the Koh Samui prosecutor at Koh Samui Court.  
The judges heeded calls for adequate time to prepare a thorough defense for the accused and, after a number of preliminary evidence exchange hearings, a 21-day trial eventually commenced on 8th July 2015. 
The closing statement submitted today to Koh Samui Court outlines in detail yet summarises succinctly key planks of the defense team's arguments, presented during testimony of its 13 witnesses in court, so as to outline to what extent the defense witnesses should be seen as credible. The closing statement also considers the testimony of the prosecution witnesses so as to compare the reliability of this witness testimony alongside that of the defense witnesses also for the court. The statement highlights as follows: 
(1) The case questioning and charging of the accused prior to prosecution was unlawful. The accused questioning after arrest and the process of notifying them of the charges against them were incorrect. The accused were questioned as 'witnesses' but it turned out as a confession that stated they confessed to murder and rape. The accused were questioned without lawyers or trusted persons present. The accused were not read their rights as criminal suspects or explained the nature of offences they were charged with. Neither were the accused provided adequate translation and legal representation as required by law and as was reasonable in the circumstances. The accused's DNA samples were taken from them involuntarily and are hence inadmissible as evidence in court. 
(2) The accused's original confessions cited by the prosecution in court came about involuntarily from torture or abuse that made them fear for their lives and safety in the context of a wider case investigation when migrants reported systematic abuse on Koh Tao Island. These written confessions, even if they had been signed, should not be considered by the Court. Other documents that were also written for the accused and which they involuntarily signed not even understanding what they were signing likewise should not be considered by the court. The videoed or staged re-enactments undertaken by the accused and submitted by the prosecution to the Court were likewise involuntary, staged under threat of violence and should not be considered or should be inadmissible as evidence in court. 
(3) There is no link between the alleged murder weapon (a hoe) and the accused. DNA samples from the hoe do not match the accused DNA profiles but instead match the DNA profiles of other individuals. 
(4) The DNA evidence allegedly matching the accused as well as all surrounding or circumstantial evidence in this case apparently showing the guilt of the accused is unreliable and should be inadmissible and not considered by the Court. All of this evidence was not collected, tested or analysed in accordance with internationally accepted standards such as ISO 17025. This evidence should not be considered as satisfying beyond reasonable doubt that the accused violently raped and murdered the female deceased or murdered the male deceased. This includes all evidence linking the accused to the alleged crime scene such as cigarette butts, theft of the male deceased's mobile phone and sunglasses as well as a 'running man' caught on CCTV. 
(5) The prosecution case is marked by an absence of significant evidence needed to prove the guilt of the accused for crimes they are charged with. This absent evidence includes photographs of the crime scene, autopsy and DNA analysis processes, chain of custody documents for forensic evidence, certain forensic evidence documents as well as detailed DNA analysis laboratory case notes. 
In addition, the clothes and the body surface of the female deceased expected to contain significant traces of DNA of the perpetrators were either not tested at all or tested but not included in the prosecution file or case evidence list. CCTV footage provided by the prosecution seemed to be incomplete and no fingerprint or footprint evidence was presented as part of the prosecution case.
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In the High Court Mr.Justice Green dismissed a claim by defence lawyers to have a full copy of the Scotland Yard report.  But it did trouble him.

  2. In coming to this end result I nonetheless feel very considerable unease. I sit at a long distance from the seat of the trial and I do not have a true “hands on” feel for the way the evidence has been tendered in the trial to date or how the accused might structure their defences.   I have not been assisted by the lack of evidence about the Thai proceedings or as to the evidence that has in fact been tendered by the prosecution or as to the main lines of the defence.  I have had to work these out for myself doing, as the parties put it, “the best I could”.  This has not been a comfortable process.

    THE CHILLING EFFECT 
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U.S. MARINE GUNNED DOWN IN THAI PROPERTY DISPUTE DIES IN BANGKOK

October 31, 2015, 2:25 am
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BUT SIX YEARS ON DRUG FUGITIVE'S WIFE IS STILL FREE

A retired United States Marine, who was gunned down after having a dispute with a fugitive Briton on the run from a drugs trial in Sheffield has died in Bangkok after being paralysed for six years.

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Clik here to view. Biff Whiting, 72, had been in dispute with Darren Oxley, 48, who fled a Sheffield Crown Court in 2001 and turned up in  Hua Hin in Thailand where he started a property company and built his own seaside mansion.

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After Whiting took legal action against Oxley, his wife and his company Oxley Homes his car was firebombed.   And shortly afterwards he was gunned down at his front door in October 2008. He took six bullets and one lodged in his spine.

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Oxley outside the Whitring's home in Hua Hin
Although the Thai Prime Minister at the time Abhisit Vejjajiva ordered a speedy investigation it took six years to get the case to trial. No charges were brought against Oxley, who frequently entertained police and civic officals in his mansion.

But last year his wife Janpen Oxley was jailed for life as was the Thai gunman for conspiracy to murder.

But even local English language forums were scared to print the judgment,

The court heard that payments had been tracked from Janpen’s account to the gunman’s team.

Mrs Oxley still however still not served a day in prison. She is appealing the verdict/

Before he died Donald ‘Biff’ Whiting was severely critical of the British authorities for not seeking extradition for Oxley.  The gunman had written to him from jail asking for forgiveness.

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“I had never spoken to Janpen Oxley ever. My row was with Oxley and I had complained on the internet about his shoddy services. Why are people like Darren Oxley allowed to wander freely."

In 2001 nine of Oxley’s associates were jailed for a total of 60 years at Sheffield Crown Court for dealing drugs in clubs like the town's 'Republic'.

In the court it was claimed Oxley was the ringleader of the operation and his crew had "lived in fear" of him. He was described as "violent" and "not a man you mess with" who had made considerable amounts of money.

But Oxley, now 46, who stood in the dock with them, was now nowhere to be seen when it came to judgment and sentencing.

A bench warrant was issued for his arrest but never acted on.

Attempts were made shortly after the shooting under the Freedom of Information act after South Yorkshire Police declined to comment. They were dismissed as the case was ‘an ongoing operational police matter’.

Whiting’s widow Dolly Samson, an educator commented:

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Sunday Mirror (by the author)
Yesterday, my husband of 30 years passed away peacefully in his sleep. 
He had been fighting for 7 years the indignities and dependencies of paralysis as well as a year of throat cancer. 
The radiation treatment devastated his body. This morning we had the temple service and cremation, and he's now in a much happier place, heading to tranquil destinations. 
Biff (or Donald as you may know him) is the King of My Heart, the Wind beneath My Wings, and my best friend. 
I miss him terribly, but I am relieved to see his suffering - which he endured with stoicism and good humor - come to an end. 
I've got a terrific support team of four lovely Thai women - Ae, Biff's nurse who's tended to him for nearly 7 years; Goong, his night nurse; Daisy, a former maid and friend; and Fon, Ae's niece and current maid.


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Their job titles don't begin to describe the grace, the dedication, and the love they've shown Biff in caring for him. We could not have made this journey without them. 
Thanks to everybody for your condolences and good wishes. Biff is now walking to his new destination.



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RUN A BROTHEL AND GET A THAI IMMIGRATION VISA

November 2, 2015, 5:16 am
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NEW PROPERTY SALES GIMMICK IN THAILAND

ONLY ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE CATCHES

Here’s a unique opportunity to cash in on Thailand sex’s trade and become your own pimp and you get a Thai Immigration visa with it to boot!


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Drew Noyes protesting a British newspaper which suggested he and David Hanks were mafia connected


How could you turn down the opportunity to sit down with a whisky and coke 80 yards from the beach while Thai women tracked in from the provinces make money for you on their knees and backs!

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But wait. It’s that Drew Noyes again so I guess there are. His novel approach of flogging off a ‘Gentle’s Man’ (sic) Club comes after we reported here that he has failed to sell it through agents.

So he had brought in the local Immigration Police to help out.  Is there a visa for pimping?  Surely not! But then Pattaya Police (all Thai authorities for that matter) officially deny there is an sex trade in the world’s most famous city for commercial sex – because it, er , would be against the law.

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And no he is is not a lawyer. This is from his defunct Pattaya Times
his organ of extortion


No pimp does not appear to be on this list of jobs which foreigners cannot undertake in Thailand. : At least not on this list provided by the Labour Department. An earlier rather comical list had to be taken down off the next because people were laughing at the translations.  It was illegal for instance for foreigners to do a 'paper hand job'.   Pimping of course does not exist in Thailand. If there were pimps they would of course be arrested.

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Before you put that cash down for key money however it should be noted that (Catch 1) Noyes was accused of selling bars several times over to different people, when the fake lawyer, now convicted (Catch 2) of extortion was running bars known as the Lollipop and Zebra in this down market resort city.

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Noyes dining with Pattaya judges


He has been accused of defrauding a ‘friend’ (Catch 3) out of funds he gave to invest in Pattaya’s entertainment business. In fact there is a #Drew Noyes victims' list

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'No pimp!' - Just a punter
And of course (Catch 4) that Immigration Visa is illegal and if Noyes can give it he can also take it away and you could find yourself paying through the nose to stay in business – and even be kicked out after you have paid your key money.

Interestingly Drew Noyes and Scottish Australian David Hanks sued this site after a poster here called them pimps.

Hanks, the former owner of Masquerades Brothel in Keysborough, Melbourne, capital of Australia’s Victoria, where brothels are legal. Defended himself by saying his ‘girls’ (Asian Hotties according to the ads) were all treated very well.   Noyes said it was a ‘stain on his character’.

Where was the court?  Pattaya of course.


Of course if you do buy the brothel in question you should know (Catch Five) it is off the beaten track, was finished over a year ago but Noyes was unable to own it and there is a recession on in the city due to the crisis of the  Chinese and Russian economies.   So you can put your cigar down now.

Oh and the key money is half what he paid for the place outright!


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Thailand's retiring police chief has accused the Immigration Department of being guilty of taking millions of baht in bribes every day in a remarkable meeting behind closed doors, Thai media is reporting. 


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#Drew Noyes is currently in the United States between North Carolina and Atlantic City. He has joined the Google Group (Beautiful Russian Women) sound like a recruitment drive or he has gone off Thai women having left them all behind. He is due in court on November 25th. If he fails to turn up a warrant will be issued for his arrest.

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BRITISH WOMAN RAPED BECAUSE SHE WAS DRUNK –THAI POLICE

November 3, 2015, 3:29 am
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Clik here to view. A Thai police chief has blamed the rape of a British woman on holiday in Thailand on the fact that she was drunk – and said his men would take more care now to enforce licensing hours.

The 24-year-woman was raped at the end of last week after accepting a lift home on a motorcycle after leaving a bar in the small town of Pai in Mae Hong Son Province, a popular base for trekking to see Thailand’s northern hill tribes.

A 28-year-old Thai man was arrested at the weekend but he claimed the sex was consensual.  Police said that  instead of taking her to her guest house he took her to a wooded area where he raped her.

Pai Police Colonel Wutthi Phuawadee said: “The main factor that led to the incident was because of an entertainment establishment that opened later than the time prescribed by law, which made the tourist become drunk and senseless,” adding that police would respond to the rape by more strictly enforcing operating hours in Pai, a popular tourist destination.

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Del Pinto
A policeman from Pai is currently serving a 37 year sentence for the murder of 23-year-old Canadian tourist Leo del Pinto from Calgary, Alberta, and the attempted murder of his companion Carly Reisig in 2008.

All three had been drinking in bars in Pai, Mae Hong Son Province.

After he murdered del Pinto the policeman Police Sergeant Uthai Dechachiwat was given bail and went on to beat his 18-year-old wife to death.

The investigation had to be taken out of the hands of the local police as they were intimidating witnesses and put into Thailand’s Department of Special Investigations.

Footnote: On this case I accompanied a delegation from the Thai National Human Rights Commission to Chiang Mai, Pai and Mae Hong Son (where Ms Reisig gave court evidence). The commission established that police were lying when they said Sgt Dechchiwat was trying to defend himself. Forensics showed that he shot down on Del Pinto not up while he claimed he was being attacked. In the case of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller, the Royal Thai Police completely ignored summonses from the TNHRC.

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Police Chief Sombat Panya intimidating witnesses. Carly Reisig on right

Last year Thailand’s military premier General Prayuth Chan-Ocha was ridiculed for a statement he made after the rape and murder of Hannah Witheridge and the murder of David Miller on the southern island of Koh Tao. He suggested ugly woman need have no fear of rape.

He said: “There are always problems with tourist safety. They think our country is beautiful and is safe so they can do whatever they want, they can wear bikinis and walk everywhere. Can they be safe in bikinis…unless they are not beautiful?”

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BRIT GOES AWOL FOR ALLEGED ATTACK ON INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL TEACHER

November 3, 2015, 8:47 am
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Adam Pickles
Sean Tinsley from Wolverhampton who was charged with the attempted murder of Adam Pickles the former Head of English at an international school in Pattaya, Thailand, failed to turn up to hear the result of an appeal. Now he is being sought.

He had earlier been found not guilty.

 The following message appears on the Adam Pickles Fund Raising page on Facebook.

“Adam Pickles was head of English at Regents School in Pattaya, Thailand. 
One Evening in May 2012 he was attacked. He was hit over the head twice with an iron bar and left for dead. 
Thanks to the quick actions of his friends he was taken to hospital in Pattaya and operated on and these actions saved his life. However, he sustained severe brain injuries. He was flown back to the UK by air ambulance six weeks later. Since then he has been treated in hospital in Leeds, Putney and York. 
He remains at a low level of consciousness. He is severely disabled, needing to be cared for 24/7. He is lifted in and out of bed into a wheelchair daily, he cannot eat, or drink or speak. He is unlikely to ever make a full recovery.  
His life and the lives of his family, partner and son have been irrevocably changed.
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Adam Pickles
The person accused of doing this is Sean Tinsley and he has been charged with attempted murder.  
On the 28th of October he was due to attend court in Pattaya to receive the verdict of the appeal court judges on these charges. However the subpoena could not be delivered as he has gone missing.  
We want to find him and bring him to court so that justice can be done. 
You can message us with any information on https://www.facebook.com/groups/adampickles/ where you will also find more information. Or you can send a confidential email to JusticeForAdam@hotmail.com .



LINKS: FURY AS BRIT WALKS FREE

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A FISHY SMELL FROM CHAIYAPHUM

November 4, 2015, 8:53 am
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Two years after a foreigner was gunned down in a fish farm in the Thai province of Chaiyaphum Thai police have failed to prosecute the killers despite extensive DNA evidence and witness testimony.

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Clik here to view. This week a witness was under the protection of the Department of Special Investigation in Bangkok after receiving ‘you’re next’ threats – but the foreigner’s wife a Thai born U.S. citizen claims there is a total cover up – and is not hopeful a real investigation will ever take place.

The matter is also in the hands of the Thai National Human Rights Commission but he has been given a six months deadline to complete his case – and four months on he has not attempted to go to the village of Ban Leum just outside Chaiyaphum the provincial capital where the murder took place.

And this all seems a bit academic anyway – because with the suspension of the 2007 by the Thai military junta and National Council for Peace and Order – both the DSI and TNHCR have had their powers cut.

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Clik here to view. Nowhere was this demonstrated more visibly than when Thai police were summoned to TNHCR headquarters in Bangkok to answer questions about the alleged torture of Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo the two Burmese awaiting verdicts on charges relating to the murder and rape of Britons Hanna Witheridge and murder of  David Miller on the island of Koh Tao in 2014.

But if people are horrified about the incompetent and illegal aspects of the Thai investigation into those murders (Police claim they have DNA evidence but cannot produce the samples) then looking at the Chaiyaphum case would make their hair stand on end.

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Chaiyaphum Police station

The problem with the Chaiyaphum case appears to be mainly the nationality of the victim. He is Pakistani Jawad Rasheed Khan a Pakistani national.

His widow Vanida Boongeon has been to everyone, the United States Embassy, the Thai Military, the Police, DSI, and Thai National Human Rights Commission.

She even tried to investigate the murder of her husband herself.  That appeared to be a hazardous exercise. On the first occasion a gunman snuck onto her property but ran off when he was spotted, she said, and on the second occasion: “Some men fired 12 – 14 shots to scare me". When the police came they refused even to file a report.”

The witness currently under protection in Bangkok said he was told the same thing would happen to him that happened to Jawad.

Had of course Jawad been a 23-year-old British woman the news would have gone worldwide but his murder made little more than the local press.  For a short whole Vanida’s elder brother Thongpun Boongeon and a German called Uwe Seliger were held by police.


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The German had a grievance with Vanida Boongeon.  She had provided him a wife.

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Thongpun
He paid 170,000 baht for sin sod (dowry) and not to put too fine a point on it ‘ did not deliver’ on their wedding night and showed little interest in him thereafter. He wanted his money back.

These men and a third suspect – a worker employed at the fish farm which provided tilapia fish to the CP Food conglomerate – were all seen together shortly before the murder.  Witnesses say money changed hands before the incident.

One suspect Tara Sosai is alleged to have poisoned all the local dogs before the shooting. Fifty carcasses, 23 inside and 27 outside the farm were counted at the time.

Thongpun also had a furious row with Jawad after  Jawad caught him making off with 300 kilos of fish from the farm to sell himself.

More details about the murder can be found here - but it is believed from the little forensic evidence which was gathered that the bullets which killed Jawad came from two guns.

The main problem in this case is that the police have a surfeit of evidence which they have not even tested, or if they have, they have kept the result to themselves. They have a reported three DNA samples from the murder scene.

Says Vanida Boongeon. "They said they would test them. There is no evidence that they have."

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Vanida Boongeon was in Bangkok when Jawad was gunned down on the fish farm. On recent visits to the area she has been given a police tag – not to look after her, she says, but to watch what she is up to.

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Jawad Khan
“If you’re not careful you will be charged with murder yourself,” is what she says police and even a prosecutor told her.

“I had no motive at all. I stood to gain nothing by Jawad’s death,” she said. It was her money that bought the farm which she claims was one of the biggest and most successful in the province.

A story of country folk? Yes. But it seems that murders of foreigners in remote rural Thailand which is often portrayed as a cute place with down to earth honest people who celebrate foreigners by having an annual ‘Best Foreign Husband’ competition are more common than is generally known – even though we have highlighted many on this site.

But the lack of interest in such deaths coupled with the reluctance of Embassies to push the Thai authorities - unless under media pressure -


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Links: MURDER SHE SAID - THE THREATS OF UWE SELIGER

http://www.andrew-drummond.com/2015/01/murder-she-said-hell-angells-child.html

A KILLING FORETOLD - THE GUARDIAN

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/aug/17/thailand.familyandrelationships

BRITISH PENSIONER AWAITED HIS OWN DEATH
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EXTORTION, PERJURY, FRAUD, AND REVENGE PORN – 'Gie us a break!'

November 8, 2015, 10:52 pm
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Two Scotsman who with a fake lawyer waged a two year vendetta against a British journalist who exposed their activities in Thailand are due in court in Pattaya  (Monday) to face perjury and revenge porn charges.

 Brian Goudie, 48, formerly known as Brian Goldie, from Falkirk, is due to face multiple charges relating to the appearance on the internet of videos and stills of his former young Thai assistant providing him with an oral sex service.

David John Hanks, 67, from Girvan, Ayrshire, a former pupil of Girvan Academy, is being sued by Dr. Michael Goulet, of the Thonglor Clinic, in Jomtien, Pattaya, for perjury.

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It is alleged that Hanks, who worked out of the offices of Drew Walter Noyes, the former owner of the now defunct Pattaya Times newspaper in the resort, had invented a story about treatment to his face at the clinic, in revenge for his boss being taken to trial for extortion.

Earlier this year Noyes, who falsely claimed to be a lawyer, was convicted and sentenced to two years jail for attempting to extort Goulet’s clinic out of 7 million baht US$129,000. If Goulet did not pay up his premises would be raided by presumably crooked police where illegal substances would be found, and his clinic would receive bad publicity in his newspaper.

During Noyes’s trial Dr. Goulet told the court that just prior to the blackmail attempt Hanks had approached him at the clinic after checking in for treatment.


 Hanks had told him that he was in the sex trade in Australia and knew the Chinese mafia.  If he wanted to make a successful business in Pattaya he should see his boss Mr. Noyes.

“David Hanks said things that scared me,” Goulet told the court at Noyes’ trial. “When Noyes called he said: ‘Come to my office and we can talk about the protection we can offer so your business can run smoothly'.”

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Hanks )crouching)  and Noyes and Noyes 'One Stop Service Center' - quasi legal firm in Pattaya
Goulet after reading about Noyes on www.andrew-drummond.com instead went to the police who set up a sting operation and handed over the first payment of 100,000 baht (about £2,000) to Noyes, Noyes Thai wife, and Hanks in a local restaurant.

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From Noyes' Pattaya Times


Journalist Andrew Drummond * had written a number of exposés of Noyes showing that he was not the lawyer he claimed to be; had cheated people on housing deals and, matrimonial settlements, employed illegal Filipina labour whom he sexually harassed, and had totally invented his biography, in which he described himself as a member of Mensa, and had arrived in Thailand by Royal Proclamation.

He also pointed out the Noyes has been exposed by the media in the United States long before arriving in Thailand. The Star in North Carolina had run a long report about his property and share deals and claims of sexual harassment headed 'Trouble Follows Developer'.

After Noyes’ arrest Hanks took charges out against Goulet and the clinic claiming irreparable harm had been done to his face.





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Brian Goudie, was also exposed by Andrew Drummond, as not being the  Scottish Advocate and English barrister which he claimed to be, nor a former officer in the Royal Marines, but who in fact was Brian Goldie, a former Royal Bank of Scotland clerk, who was jailed in Australia for six years for stealing some AUS$400,000 from a Perth mining company.

A warrant had been issued against him for a fraud on the Royal Bank of Scotland but after five years it was withdrawn.

He is currently on bail appealing a three year sentence for cheating a 78-year-old American woman out of US$300,000.

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After his exposés on his website and in the UK media – Drummond also named Hanks as the former owner and licencee of Masquerades Brothel in Keysborough, Noyes, Goudie and Hanks, to multiple SLAPP* cases against Drummond using Thailand’s criminal libel and Computer Crime Act libel laws.

They succeeded in gaining one conviction in 12 cases – and that was allowing a poster on his site to describe Noyes and Hanks as ‘pimps’.  Drummond produced documents from ASIC – the Australian Investments and Securities C omission showing that Hanks was the brothel owner and operator, and said that Noyes ran the ‘Zebra’ and ‘Lollipop Bars’ in Pattaya were run by Noyes before he ran a pseudo law firm.  At the bars women could be bought out for sex by paying a fee to the management.

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Pattaya Times 18 months ago - website was not closed 
However as prostitution is illegal under Thai law the court would not rule Noyes was running a commercial sex operation even though that is what resort of Pattaya has a world reputation for.

Noyes was forced to withdraw charges of libel against Drummond in relation to his property and matrimonial case frauds and told he could not refile.

He and Goudie have since brought cases against Drummond for using photo-shopped pictures lampooning them.  Noyes is due in court on November 25th to hear his appeal against conviction.

#BrianGoudie and #DavidHanks also took multiple cases with IPSO – the Independent Press Standards Organisation, complaining about stories in the Scotsman and Daily Record.

Said Drummond: “ I am happy with the results of those cases. Goudie and Noyes apparently are not happy with the way things are turning out. They have created some 30 plus Google websites and Facebook pages on the net to hide their own activities and attack their enemies, of which I appear to be the principal.” 
“One of their favourite attacks is to claim I am a Nazi, presumably on the basis that is the last thing in the world I want to be called."

Before he left the UK to work out of Thailand where he has been the registered correspondent for 25 years for the London Evening Standard and The Times, Drummond, formerly of Mearnside, Edinburgh, was the recipient of the Maurice Ludmer Memorial Prize for Investigations into Racism and Fascism.

* SLAPP - A strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP) is a lawsuit that is intended to censor, intimidate, and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition. (wiki)



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BLACKMAILER NEWSPAPER MAN –‘I AM NOT COMING BACK TO THAILAND'

November 9, 2015, 4:08 am
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 – 'UNITED STATES LAWS WON’T ALLOW ME TO RETURN'

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Drew Walter Noyes, the former publisher of the Pattaya Times newspaper, said through lawyers at court today that he would not be coming back to Thailand to attend court appearances as US laws prevented his return.

His lawyer told Bangkok Criminal Court that Noyes, who last month failed to turn up to hear his appeal against a 2 year jail sentence for extortion, would not return because American laws required him to look after his children and he would not get permission to leave the country.

In fact there is no such American law, but of course #DrewNoyes cannot desert his children. He would be required to arrange their care. That it appears is what he cannot do. Last month he announced that his ex-wife Nittaya Chaisit, would be getting a visa to the United States. But Noyes told his lawyers there was no-one else to look after his children.

Noyes brought five children to the United States, two by his current Thai common law wife Wanrapa Boonsu, (Kung) and three by his former wife Nittaya.

He was found guilty last year of extortion. He had threatened the owner of the Thonglor Clinic, Jomtien, that unless he paid up some 7 million baht his clinic would be subject to a police raid when illegal drugs would be found, and he would suffer bad publicity in his newspaper.  Both he and Wanrapa who assisted in his scam were given bail while appealing conviction.

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Noyes ‘I shall not return’ statement came as his lawyers formally withdrew charges he had laid against  Andrew Drummond, the owner of this site,  Kanokrat Nimsamooth Booth, and Alastair Cooper.

In a related cases in Pattaya Scotsmen Brian Goudie, from Falkirk, and David Hanks from Girvan, failed to turn up for their cases.

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#BrianGoudie, who re-invented himself as a British barrister in Thailand after being jailed for six years in Australia for defrauding a Perth Mining Company, sent in his latest girlfriend Jirapun Mootsopa, 19, with a doctor’s note to say he had been involved in a motorcycle accident.  On the last occasion his lawyers said he had injured himself falling down the stairs of his Key Bar Restaurant and Guest House.

The judges informed lawyers that a warrant will be issued for his arrest if he did not turn up next month to face charges related to 'revenge porn'. The Pattaya Court will also issue a warrant of arrest for Drew Noyes.

#BrianGoudie is currently on bail appealing a three year jail sentence for posing as a barrister and former officer in the Royal Marines to cheat American Barbara Fanelli Miller out of some US$300,000 in Pattaya.

And in another related case David John Hanks, 67, from Girvan, Ayrshire, the former owner of the Masquerades brothel in Keysborough, Melbourne, also failed to turn up to face perjury charges. He skipped his trial in September saying he had problems with his Thai Visa.

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Hanks worked with both Drew Noyes and Goudie and was involved in an attempted scam on US publishing magnate Bill Monson.  He also worked out of Drew Noyes’ ‘One Stop Service Center’ in Pattaya, and according to evidence presented in court played a part in the attempted extortion of the Thonglor Clinic, but was not charged.

Goudie in an email today was still litigating: “Oh, I was not at Court today,  no problem the case was adjourned, but I think the cops finally got Nang, just waiting on confirmation. Your pal from Hull also now has a warrant coming. Oops.”
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FREEMASON ALERT - FORGET THE HANDSHAKE

November 12, 2015, 1:41 am
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The Thai resort of Pattaya – a hub of criminals and con men running charitable worthy organisations – has recently welcomed a new man on the block.

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Clik here to view. He is Norman Edwin Steele, also known as Norman Moxon, and is now the Master of the Trident Lodge of the Freemasons.

Actually Steele has been around for a few years  stealthily networking but the Trident Lodge is a new Lodge, operating separately from the West Winds Freemason Lodge in the same city, which of course starred Scots paedophile Martin Frutin.

It seems Norman is in the financial advice business or a person with his name and same appearance is.

But that person appears to have first been driven out of the UK,  South Africa and the Channel Islands and the Costa del Sol where he was selling products to avoid Inheritance Tax

Norman is not answering my calls. Perhaps he does not take calls from  unrecognised telephone numbers for indeed a lot of people appear  to want to meet up with him.

Recently he has been selling products from Cornhill Management – giving a bank in London.  Cornhill, here’s a well-known name in finance.

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But wait a minute it’s not quite Cornhlll Management , not even Cornhill Management LC, ( a clone)..This one is Cornhill Management  o.c.p – SA and  registered in Eastern Europe.

No need to get into the nitty gritty here.  Potential customers need only know that this Norman Edwin Steele is not registered to give financial advice in Thailand or indeed to sell financial products.  So if you lose money – you won’t get any back without a shot-gun.

As for the other Norman Edwin Steele, well the Jersey Financial Services Commission  issued this notice way back in 2002.

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Clik here to view. Then three years later the Financial Services Board issued this notice against Steele who was hanging out in Durban.

A report that a police arrest warrant was issued cannot be confirmed at this time.

But this Norman Edwin Steele shortly afterwards turned up on the Costa del Sol where again he seems to have upset a lot of people.

The online magazine of the Costa del Sol Action Group published an article shortly after this Norman Edwin Steele left for Thailand.


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The article had Norman's name with a cover picture depicting a shark and the article inside was headed with a picture of a rat.  – and look! This Norman Edwin Steele has got a thing about Freemasons.

The editor of the magazine who was sent a picture of the Thai based Norman Edwin Steele said: 'Yes. its the same man'.

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Freemasons are meant to help each other right?  Seems that Norman might have taken a few by surprise.


You have been warned about #NormanEdwinSteele or #JamesNormanMoxonSteele

James Norman Moxon Steele  has since been in touch and denied allegations made by the Costa del Sol Action Group which he says have been conducting a  vendetta against.
His says he is no longer operating as a financial advisor.

Here are his points against CDSG which are contained in pictures in this article:  I am happy to publish.

The warnings by the Jersey and South African authorities have not been withdrawn.

 "I was in Holland at a dressage seminar when they visited my offices. This they were aware of but didn’t take any notice.

 "I didn’t desert my wife and lave South Africa that day – I wasn’t even in South Africa. In fact, I didn’t leave until 7 months after this took place i.e. April 2002.

"My wife and I remained good friends even to this day. She didn’t join me in Spain because of family commitments which she now regrets. I am asking her to produce a sworn affidavit to this effect. My son never worked for me. There was no death as reported – a complete fabrication.

"The CDSAG started this campaign about me because I was defending my business partner who they were also making false allegations about.

" I started legal action via Baker & Co., in Jersey (various copies of letters attached but I couldn’t afford to continue because the fees were too high.


"There was never an arrest warrant taken out on me but the FSB did try and report the matter to the policy but they threw it out – see attached letter. There is more’.

A document supplied from the Commercial Branch of the South African Police Service dated September 7th 2007 shows the that the police case which was sent to the prosecutor was subsequently withdrawn by the prosecutor.




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Famous 'iffy' people in Thailand's worthy institutions


Pattaya Police Foreign Volunteers - 

Niels Morten Storm Colov, (Danish) former pimp and member of Copenhagen underworld (still active)



Pattaya Jomtien Rotary Club

Niels Marten Storm Colov (as above) former President.

Richard Haughton (British):  Property fraudster, former boss of Harlequin Thailand, then Thai Media and Property Exhibition Company (still active). Sold property then raised a 70 million baht loan with other people's property deeds.


Pattaya Optimists:

Drew Walter Noyes (American): Exposed in the United States as a con man, Sentenced to two years in jail for extortion in Thailand, currently in US says he will not return to face sentence. 

Michael Strouse (American) former pornographer, Given a BOI licence to manufacture softweare in Thailand.

Brian Wright (American):  Ran an agency giving Thai women US marriage visas. Convicted of child sexual abuse.

Paul Richard Bell (American):  Boiler room fraudster (now reported dead)

John Guccone (American) Boiler room fraudster.

Freemason's Lodge - West Winds

Martin Frutin, (British-Scot): Convicted of possessing child pornography. Lived with young boy in Pattaya openly.

International Bar Association

Brian Goudie (British Scot) Totally fake lawyer and fake officer in Royal Marines. Jailed in Australia under the name Brian Goldie. Convicted in Thailand of a US$300,000 fraud on 78-year-old Barbara Fanelli Miller of Madison, Wisconsin.


Lions Club of Thailand (Silom 310D)\

Drew Noyes (as above) Resigned 2015

David John Hanks (Australian-Scot): Former owner of Masquerades Brothel, Keysborough, Victoria, Australia, currently facing perjury charges in Pattaya. Resigned 2015.
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A CRY FROM THE WILDERNESS AS THAILAND'S DISAPPEARED GO UP IN SMOKE

November 12, 2015, 6:34 am
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THEY'VE ALL BEEN CREMATED!



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Clik here to view. Thai Lawyers for Human Rights has called for an independent enquiry into the deaths of people who died in a military detention facility - and the closure of the facility forthwith.

This follows the deaths firstly of Police Major Prakrom Warunprapa and secondly of Suyriyan Sucharitpolwong, better known as 'Mor Yong' while under detention in the facility in the 11th Army Circle, in Nakhon Chaisri Road, Bangkok.

Both were arrested for lese majeste in what can only be described as 'Gestapo' like raids in connection with the 'Bike for Mum' and 'Bike for Dad' Royal promotions.

Commenting on the deaths Sanitsuad Ekachai write in the Bangkok Post that Thailand is currently undergoing a climate of fear.

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Whatever the military or Corrections Department say - nobody is going to believe them, she reports.

Major Prakrom is alleged to have committed suicide in a windowless cell while it is standard procedure to remove any items such as belts to prevent people from doing such a thing.

The death of Mor Yong was due to a bloodstream infection.

Thai Lawyers for Human Rights complains complains that the government is guilty of being in breach of  the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the UN 1995 Standard Minimum Rules on the Treatment of Prisoners and the Convention Against Torture.

Actually this is not particularly new to Thailand. Deaths in normal prisons due to neglect and the reluctance to send prisoners to hospital for treatment are extremely common - but this detention facility appears to indicate how the current military government intends to carry on without fear or criticism.

Also among those who have died in custody is Pol Col Akrawut Limrat who fell from a high building
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after being arrested during the purge of the Central Investigation Bureau and Crime Suppression Division last year. (Limrat had summonsed the author to attend a meeting about a foreign boiler room operator in Bangkok)....the bodies of all three have been cremated so any plausible investigation is not possible.


Here follows the TLHR statement. This organisation which has been banned from appearing at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand is shouting into the wind. Neverthess this information is being picked up by foreign countries in a week in which the government believes it has won brownie points by starting trials against human traffickers





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"The opinions of the Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) toward the establishment of the temporary remand facility on Nakhon Chai Sri Road and the deaths in custody of Pol Maj Prakrom Warunprapa and Mr. Suriyan Sucharitpolwong


            In pursuance to the directive of the Ministry of Justice no. 314/2558 regarding the designation of territory of the temporary remand facility on Nakhon Chai Sri Road dated 11 September 2015 and on 14 September 2015, Mr. Adem Karadag and Mr. Mieraili Yusufu, the two suspects in the bombing of the Erawan Shrine have been held in custody there whilst the Prison Director of the Bangkok Remand Prison, as the office in charge, has told the press that twenty military officials shall be appointed as Special Custodial Officers.
On 21 October 2015, Mr. Suriyan Sucharitpolwong Pol Maj Prakrom Warunprapa and Mr. Jirawong Watthanathewasilp, suspects on the violation of Article 112 of the Penal Code, were then held in custody at the same remand facility. Altogether, there were five persons being deprived of liberty there. Later, on 23 October 2015, Pol Maj Prakrom Warunprapa was found dead in the remand facility and according to the press statement of the Department of Corrections, it was alleged that he hung himself to death. It was described in the statement that the suspect was detained in a windowless holding cell which is not visible from outside without opening the door. Also, it said that the body had been transferred for autopsy at the Institute of Forensic Medicine and an inquiry committee had been set up to investigate the case. 
Later on 9 November 2015, the Department of Corrections stated to the press that Mr. Suriyan Sucharitpolwong has died of bloodstream infection (septicemia) causing him an acute respiratory failure on 7 November. Prior to this, Mr. Suriyan had been hospitalized at least on two occasions. On 22 October 2015, the Director General of the Department of Corrections told the press that a physician from outside has conducted a CT Scan and could not detect any abnormalities and he suspected that Mr. Suriyan pretended to be ill. 
On 30 October 2015, Mr. Suriyan was not brought to the Military Court for the hearing on the second extension of his remand in custody and according to the letter issued by the Corrections Department hospital, he was suffering from blood pressure and fatty liver disease. 
It was claimed by the authorities that for the two deaths, the post mortem examinations have been conducted as warranted for by Article 150 of the Criminal Procedure Code, as the body of Pol Maj Prakrom was examined in the Corrections Department hospital, the body of Mr. Suriyan was transferred to the Institute of Forensic Medicine, the Police General Hospital for the same procedure and that their relatives have not questioned the cause of the deaths and no funeral rites have been performed for the two bodies.
The Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) has the following opinions to share regarding the deprivation of liberty of civilians in the temporary remand facility on Nakhon Chai Sri Road located inside the military premises.  

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1.                Reasons for the establishment of the remand facility. 
Even though the Corrections Act B.E. 2479 (1936) authorizes the Minister to set up a temporary remand facility to hold in custody suspects for a special purpose, but the directive of the Ministry of Justice no. 314/2558 regarding the designation of territory of the temporary remand facility on Nakhon Chai Sri Road dated 11 September 2015 states the reason for such establishment as “for the sake of maintenance of security and to accommodate the deprivation of liberty and the treatment of suspects in cases concerning national security and other related cases, whereas the suspects give rise to special circumstances and they cannot be held in custody together with other suspects.
Therefore, it is deemed fit that a separate remand facility shall be established to hold in custody such suspects. The statement fails to provide for clear reasons as to why such suspects would give rise to “special circumstances”, what those circumstances are, and what will be the criteria for the recruitment of such inmates. As a result, the placement of suspects in such facility is subject to arbitrary and discretional power of the state officials and it may give rise to unfair and discriminatory treatment toward the suspects.
In addition, the directive fails to specify measures for the maintenance of security and the treatment appropriate to the inmates in such remand facility and how they are different from those adopted in a normal prison. It basically fails to establish the necessities and proportionality for the establishment of such remand facility. The issuance of such directive by the MoJ is therefore intended for depriving a person of liberty in breach of the rule of certainty, the principle of non-discrimination and the principle of proportionality. Such enforcement of the law is unlawful and it thus makes the detention unlawful as well as far as Article 9 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) which prohibits arbitrary detention is concerned.   
TLHR deems the establishment of the remand facility unnecessary and it may give rise to discrimination against the persons deprived of liberty. Given its being located in a military premises, it is also inaccessible from outside. And practically, the establishment of a remand facility inside a military barrack is being used as a tactic to extend the remand in custody of an “alleged offender” according to the Criminal Procedure Code rendering them as a person being detained by military officials as if they were being held in custody invoking Martial Law or the Order of the Head of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) no. 3/2558. It also makes the remand in custody indefinite, pretrial and during the trial. 

2.                Competent custodial officials

Since the deprivation of liberty of a person concerns a number of rules and regulations regarding detention and it should be conducted in accordance to the 1995 UN Standard Minimum Rules on the Treatment of Prisoners, but in this case, military officials have been appointed[1] as Special Custodian Officers, even though they are officials outside the charge of the Department of Corrections. That the custodial officers from the Bangkok Remand Prison had to be sent there to train them on the registration and how to handle visit by relatives is indicative as to how they were not ready in terms of personnel to treat any inmates and it shows their lack of awareness regarding the rights of a person being deprived of liberty and the standards regarding the detention of such a person. 
TLHR deems that the duty to detain a person directly belongs to the Department of Corrections. That the suspects were left under the responsibility of untrained military officials without knowledge as to how to treat a person being deprived of liberty and by claiming that it has been done so for the benefit of investigation are simply the negligence of duties by the Department of Corrections and as a result of such negligence, the rights and liberties of the detained suspects had been infringed and it has led to their deaths. 

3.  Detention condition and standards  
According to the press statement of the Department of Corrections regarding the death of Pol Maj Prakrom, the remand facility had been adapted from an office building of the military. The individual holding cells were windowless and the detention condition was inappropriate since the suspects were subject to solitary confinement. 
Each of them was held in custody in a small holding cell incommunicado which constitutes an inhuman or degrading treatment in breach of the international obligations Thailand has to abide by including those guaranteed in the Convention Against Torture (CAT) and the ICCPR as well as Article 3 of the 1995 UN Standard Minimum Rules on the Treatment of Prisoners and the directive of the Department of Corrections no. YT 0705.1/33405 dated 3 November 2015 which specifies measures to prevent the death in custody and the treatment of a person who died in custody including the survey of the remand facility and the improvement of visibility to make more transparent from outside. 
In addition, a sick inmate is entitled to seeing a doctor and to receiving immediate treatment. But such remand facility has failed to provide adequate medical examination and treatment services and it is located quite far from the Corrections Department hospital and as a result, no timely help could have been provided. The incidences are a glaring example as to how the remand facility and the Department of Corrections have been performing poorly and substandard as far as the deprivation of liberty and the treatment of the detainees are concerned. Persons deprived of liberty in such facility are therefore vulnerable to gross human rights violation including being tortured to confess, being killed in the holding cells, etc.

 
4.   The post mortem examination and the inquest

Since both Pol Maj Prakrom and Mr. Suriyan died in custody and according to Article 150 of the Criminal Procedure Code, a post mortem examination has to be conducted by a physician, the inquiry officer, the public prosecutor, and the administrative officer. In addition, an inquest has to be conducted to determine as to who the deceased was, where he died, when, and the circumstance around the death. And if the person has been killed, who the perpetrator was as far as it could be established.  
The post mortem autopsy of a person who died in custody is a very important procedure since if the death has resulted from the act of an officer, an inquiry has to be conducted promptly, transparently and effectively to bring the person to justice and to provide for remedies. The process has to proceed with transparency and accountability with respect to the rights of the deceased suspect and to ensure due remedies. If the post mortem examination begins with a lack of transparency and a lack of effectiveness, it shall infringe on the right in criminal justice process of the deceased including the violation of the right to fair trial as enshrined in Article 14 of the ICCPR. 
TLHR deems it insufficient to dispel any doubt for only the post mortem examination had been conducted. It may necessitate the dissection of the body in order to ascertain the cause of the death as provided for in Article 151 of the Criminal Procedure Code. What has spurred doubts in this two cases of death was the fact that both bodies were incinerated right away without any proper funeral rite. Nevertheless, TLHR urges the authorities to reveal detail of the registration of the admission of prisoners, their medical records, autopsy reports, photos of the corpses, photos take of where the two persons had succumbed to death in order to provide for transparency of the detention and the cause of death. Insofar, society at large has largely been deprived of information and the means to verify it and they simply have to accept whatever information provided for them by the state.  

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5.       The establishment of an inquiry committee 

According to the two press statements by the Department of Corrections regarding the establishment of an inquiry committee to investigate the deaths, TLHR seconds the proposal. We want to further recommend that such a committee should be composed of persons with medical expertise and well-versed in the standards concerning the treatment of prisoners. They should also be independent and impartial. Their names should be publicly revealed along with their qualifications, the timeframe of their work and the findings they will have come to in both cases.  
Since the fatal incidences inflicted on the two detainees could be attributed to the improper facility and a lack of skills and knowledge in handling the welfare of the prisoners in compliance with human rights standards and a lack of reasonableness for the establishment of such remand facility inside the 11th Military Circle, TLHR demands the closure of the temporary remand facility on Nakhon Chai Sri Road and the transfer of all remaining detainees to the Bangkok Remand Prison as well as the disclosure of the autopsy reports and the inquiry reports.  
To ensure transparency and compliance with human rights standards and laws and to assure public that their rights in justice process are upheld under the rule of the coup makers.
 
With respect to rights and liberties
Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR)
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The ‘blitzkrieg’ on media in Thailand by the country’s ‘eccentric megalomaniac’ - report

November 13, 2015, 4:49 am
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‘Reporters without Borders today publishes a scathing attack by Thailand’s military leader Prayuth Chan-Ocha whom the report describes as an ‘eccentric megalomaniac’.

 Led by Gen. Prayuth Chan-o-cha, the Thai junta has been persecuting the media for the past 18 months, imposing a reign of terror that has included interrogations, arbitrary arrests, a spate of prosecutions and barely veiled threats.

And it highlights the arrests of journalists under Thailand’s lese majeste laws (insulting the king).

As a result Thailand has lost freedoms won at a cost during the last decade which have put it at number 134 in 180 counties in the Press Freedom Index.

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In terms of foreign journalists the report deals with the harassment of the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand, and highlights new questions now being asked about the their thoughts on the King of Thailand, and their opinion of the current government, when journalists apply for accreditation.

And the report singles out several foreign journalists.

They include:

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(1)The libel and computer crime act cases against Australian Alan Morison with Chutima Sidasathian, of Phuketwan, who were prosecuted by the Royal Thai Navy for suggesting that the military service was making money out of the human trafficking of the Rohingya.

They won their case but the Navy could still appeal.




(2)The attacks on German photo-journalist Nick Nostitz who was the subject of an orchestrated campaign of harassment by local after being accused of being a spy for the ‘Red Shirts’.

(3)The necessity for British journalist Andrew Drummond (author of this site) who investigated transnational crime to have to quit Thailand after 25 years after threats which would have affected the safety of his three children.

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“The need to protect state secrets and prevent threats to national security is a useful pretext for covering up long-standing illegal practices and scandals, some of which have proved harder to expose than others. This is the case with Thailand’s “boiler rooms” – fraudulent international share trading centres involving foreign criminals, Thai organized crime and members of the Thai police and judicial system.   
British freelance journalist Andrew Drummond received many death threats after getting too close to this milieu, one populated with every kind of corrupt official, policeman, army officer and judge. Drummond had to flee the country after the latest and most serious of these threats."


Read the full report at this link and its recommendations.

* Actually the last threat was not a death threat - it was one to have me arrested for a crime yet to be announced - a threat boiler rooms have carried out successfully in Thailand and the Philippines.

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Its worth reading the full report. In a nutshell very little truth is coming out of Thailand at present as it is almost impossible to report what the government is really up to.
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"I can stay out of jail until the cows come home" - Fraudster in Thailand

November 15, 2015, 12:40 am
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FAKE LAWYER AND KEY BAR BOSS
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Brian Goudie, who re-invented himself in Thailand as a barrister and former officer in the Royal Marines, and who has since been convicted of using his cover to clean out a 78-year-old woman out of close on US$300,000 reckons he has mastered Thailand's justice system.

Out on bail and appealing his fraud and embezzlement convictions and now due to face further separate cases of 'revenge porn' on his former assistant and embezzling the cash of clients of his Alba Law firm, the Scot from Falkirk, says he is now getting back to his legal business,


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He is so cash rich, he claims, that he has dropped prices on his 'Key Bar and Guesthouse' and punters can get a basic room for anything between US$10 and US$20 dollars a night.

Of course in the write ups on Agoda, Booking.com etc., he does not say that the guest house comes replete with its own Max Cady.

The #KeyBarAndGuuestHouse is of course his former 'Jaggy Thistle' and before that the 'Blarney Stone' which he acquired from former Belfast drugs trafficker Jimmy 'Doc' Halliday by getting him to sign a Power of Attorney while the 'Doc' was dying of necrotising fasciitis at the Bangkok Pattaya Hosptal - which he had caught in Nong Plalai Prison.

The bar guesthouse has been generously allocated one and a half stars and is located in the gay area of the Jomtien Complex in Pattaya and boasts four outside bar stools to watch the world go by.

Its opening party in September was attended by eight guests - five of them Russian.

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Having been sentenced to three years in jail Goudie had to suffer the indignity of two weeks in Nong Plalai jail, Pattaya last month, where he had his hair shorn for the second time, before cashing in some chips to pay for his bail.  There's plenty more where that comes from he seems to be saying. In fact in email he wrote:

"I have enough money to pay bail until the cows come home."

Goudie, jailed under his birth name Brian Goldie in Australia for embezzling some US$400,000 from his employers, a West Australia mining company, had apparently spent his time in Nong Plalai trying to sleep next to his cell's public toilet at night time, where the shooters were not particularly sharp and by day lingering around a guards room in case of trouble. I gather a few inmates do not like him.

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He is now of course as cocky as ever and for instance warns me that should I return to Thailand he has stacks of new cases to lay against me and has donned his legal gown again.

"As soon as you land you will be hit with an avalanche of summonses.  Photoshop.  Oops. Not good in Thailand," he wrote, referring to the pictures which 'The Weapon' sends to this site which I have used regularly. 

(Heaven's knows why Goudie would think I would wish to rush back to Pattaya and Koh Samui which show how tropical paradises can be changed into garbage dumps for the world's sleaziest low-lives which I avoided as much as possible when I lived in Thailand)


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Under the Computer Crime Act it is illegal to photo-shop a picture of a person to his ridicule - in Britain it's almost a national sport thanks to the likes of 'Private Eye' and Have I got New for You'. 

In Thailand I guess the law is to stop drawing a moustache on a member of the 'Royalty' - but certainly former Thai PMs Abhisit Vejjjajiva and Thaksin have had that treatment in the Thai media.

As this is not an offence internationally some of The Weapons work is shown here.


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Anyway his claim that he has enough cash to keep him out of jail till the cows come home is all rather hollow for Goudie is a runner just like Noyes, who ran from charges and a newspaper investigation in the United States to come to Thailand after already having built up a history of burglary and larceny,

Goudie ran from the UK and refused to return to face a warrant issued under the name Goldie for  fraud on the Royal Bank of Scotland - and he ran from Australia after completing his jail sentence (He should have been deported immediately) just as the Australian Administrative Appeals Tribunal was about not only to kick him out - and make him pay costs.

The fact is Thailand would much prefer to keep taking his cash (or cash from a friend plus that defrauded from other people)  than it seems putting him up in jail at its expenses, or at least Pattaya Court would much prefer the cash it seems.  

As for those charges of fraud, and revenge porn. Will he pay bail? So far he has avoided the court by claiming (1) he fell down the stairs and (2) he fell off his motorcycle, but even Pattaya court's patience appears to be wearing thin.

He was due up in court last week in a civil case brought by two Brits and a German which is running alongside their criminal cases against him. He did not bother, assuming I suppose that even if a judgment is made against him he will claim he is penniless...that is if anyone actually makes him pay his debt.

Foreigners in Thailand have difficulty getting back cash cheated out of them even after they have won civil cases for damages. In fact there is a 7.8 million baht civil order against him in the Miller case - that's the 78-year-old woman from Madison, Wisonsin.

However her lawyers Sukhothai Inter Law have not been able to get hold of the cash - and they now have a bankruptcy order out against him.


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Incidentally there is an oufit in Thailand which pretty much guarantees to get 50 per cent of your money back. It is comprised of 'imfluential Thais' and a foreign agent. They claim many successes.


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Apart from having a Facebook page here they are fairly secretive. But they say if you supply the court order they can do all the rest.

Of course fifty per cent is very high - but its better than getting nothing back at all. And I advise those  seeking damages to therefore claim for twice the amount of cash they need to get satisfaction to compensate for the charges.

I would be interested to hear from any successful claimants.



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