WHY DID THE FBI KEEP THIS ARREST UNDER WRAPS? A PAEDOPHILE SCANDAL IN THE MAKING

August 29, 2014, 11:31 pm

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WHAT'S BEEN GOING ON IN PATTAYA?

Strike - arrested in Pattaya for offences in Hawaii

There is no question at all whether foreign law enforcement agencies should monitor their country's child sexual abusers when abroad and make sure every step is taken to severely punish them if they interfere with foreign children.

But how much pressure are they under for results?

And are they willing to ignore evidence to the contrary so they can show results back in their home countries.

This site has been approached several times before with claims that foreigners have been ‘set up’ both in Pattaya, Thailand and Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It is perhaps something we should have looked at harder.

Chris Hobbs

But cases in Pattaya at the moment are striking bad chords. The latest concerns an international businessman based in Bangkok, New Yorker, Christopher Hobbs, who was arrested two months ago for alleged offences against two Cambodian boys in an apartment in Pattaya seemingly at least 18 months ago.

Further the Pattaya Police were aided by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation which allegedly reported it had ‘information’.

The boys gave evidence to police and identified the American businessman concerned (or at least one did) and they identified 'the offenders' motor-vehicle on the premises.

What’s more Thai police identified him Hobbs' partner as the leaseholder of the apartment where the alleged offences happened and the 'offender' supposedly lived.

That looked like a signed and sealed case.

But the alleged offender Christopher Hobbs was totally shocked. He worked in Bangkok as an engineer for an international company and was married with a baby son. In Bangkok however he lived in an apartment block of which he was the juristic person. The offences are on the charge sheet are alleged to have been committed between November 15th 2012 and December 22 2013 quite some time in the distant past and quite a wide spread of dates to put on a charge sheet.

'I did not have the time - and certainly not the inclination. People who do this should be locked up for life," he says.

Hobbs with his 2 year old son

Well, married men can be sex offenders too, but serial paedophiles usually like to work alone.

Hobbs - passport picture

But there were more odd things about this case. The boys were shown a five year old passport photo of him when he had a beard.

Yes that’s the man, they said (or one did) but Hobbs insisted he had not had a beard for four years and and had witnesses who could prove it.

Later however they identified him (or one did) beardless from a picture taken at the airport.

And the delivery van reported seen at the location indeed did belong to Chris Hobbs because yes his company did have a lease on the building in question and the vehicle was registered to his Bangkok address.

In fact Hobbs had 25 per cent of a private company in Pattaya 'Big Juice' which imported juice making machines and sold fruit juice to bars and restaurants in the city and the truck was the ‘Big Juice’s’ delivery vehicle which he bought and provided. His partner rented rooms above the premises for 10,000 baht (US$300) a month.

But Hobbs himself took little part in the business or at least rarely visited the premises, witnesses said in statements seen by this site. He states that he did not have a key to the premises and had little reason other than to make cursory visits to his his partner, again this is confirmed by his partner.

He visited Pattaya only at weekends to stay with his wife and son in a totally different part of town where he supported her 'deli' business.

But that was only during the weekends, when he was not abroad, or out of town on sub-contracts for the Electricity Generating Board of Thailand such as in Mae Moh, Hat Yai, Wang Noi or Korat.

Recorded going to the toilet!

And in Bangkok where he had his own apartment his Japanese company recorded every time he went to the toilet (access was by keypad!)

Needless to say his career is over ‘I am absolutely unemployable’, he says. His company has dismissed him, not because of his ;guilt or innocence,' he says, but because of the 'bad smell' associated with such cases: "My picture is all over the net as a paedophile."

"For people in my profession and position HR (Human Resources) always use the Google search engine to find and investigate possible new talent. What do you think will come up? What do you think of my chances over 4 or 5 other candidates? The media was presented with my case as a fair accomplit and the photographers and cameramen were brought in."

Hobb's arrest picture in Pattaya-One but phony lawyer and con man Brian Goudie lifted reports and plastered
it over his 'Casewatchasia' and 'Paedophilewatch' blogspot sites. For Goudie see * below

But journalists have to be circumspect about about people crying innocent, even in Thailand. Despite being married and living in Bangkok he could have slipped into Pattaya occasionally for a bit of under-aged sex in his private pad; that is if you do not believe the witnesses,. who said he never and could not enter the Pattaya premises at night because he did not even have a key to premises or an apartment which were already occupied by a wanted paedophile.

Yes that last bit came as a bit of a surprise.

The U.S. Marshalls Get Their Man

Strike with a beard in Pattaya

But then it was revealed that in December 2013 nearly one year after the alleged offences Federal Marshall's working with the Royal Thai Police Immigration department and under instructions of the Maui Fugitive Task Force in Hawaii, removed a certain bearded American and wanted paedophile called Steven Strike from the apartment in question.

For what? - For serial offences against a young boy in Maui, Hawaii.

When I say revealed. I do not mean by the FBI. The FBI was well aware of this arrest but did not tell Thai police.

The Embassy officials first visited the boys to talk to them and then they attended his arrest in Pattaya, claims Hobbs.

Hobbs says he begged them to tell Thai police about 47-year-old Steve Strike, originally from Wisconsin. They kept shtum.

Strike had arrived in Thailand in March 2012. His Education Visa was due to expire on December 18 2013 - ten days after he was arrested.

The FBI in fact had no special information to give about Hobbs and point blankly refused to pass back information about Strike to Thai police. It appears the Thai police have still not been informed officially.

Soon, says Hobbs, the FBI refused to take any more calls from him. He had volunteered, he says, to undergo a lie detector test. He was still begging them to come clean with the Thai authorities. The FBI could not interfere with Thai justice – the standard Embassy answer.

Further one agent went on in correspondence elsewhere to suggest that Chris Hobbs and Striker 'may have been' room-mates.

It might defy belief that Hobbs whose work place was in Wireless Road next to the US Embassy in Bangkok where the FBI and ICE are located, would be room-mates with anyone 140 kilometres away.

Hobbs said he was told by an FBI agent in Bangkok to put the Strike issue aside: 'Forget about Strike. You are in the Thai legal system. Get a lawyer!'

The suggestion that he and Strike had been room mates was he said made by the FBI agent Randall Devine to the Maui prosecutor of Strike - Ms Kim Whitworth. Devine is now based in the Wilshire Boulevard, LA, offices of the FBI.

The Cambodian victims also identified an orange motorcycle in the Mid Town Village premises as a motorcycle used by the offender and victims have confirmed that motorcycle, which had been left there by an Irish national, was used by Strike as his main form of transport.

But their testimony is hardly necessary because Strike was arrested by Pattaya Police for being drunk while riding that motorcycle on May 13 2013 and bailed in the sum of 20,000 baht.

But it gets worse. When the Federal Marshalls called with Immigration Police to arrest Striker they never thought to take his computer and hard drives – yet this man was a known paedophile.

Christopher Hobbs' Pattaya based partner handed them into police later - the US Marshalls had left them in the room and all his belongings Eight months later they are now being looked at by police in Bangkok.

For police investigating child sexual abuse the data on these drives might easily give a clue as to what Strike was up to in Thailand and might even totally exonerate Hobbs, and give Maui prosecutor more information on Strike's activities in Hawaii. But the urgency to get Strike back to the United States and proclaim their arrest may have seem greater than the need to check who he might have abused in Thailand. The FBI did take Hobbs computers through - and found no what is termed as ' contraband'.

Steve Strike has been approached by lawyers in prison in Maui to see if he will admit to offences in Thailand. It seems he would have, had he been able to make a plea bargain. But there is no deal there. This was quashed, says Hobbs by the innuendo that he and Strike might have been room mates. The prosecutor in Hawaii, he has been told, wants Strike to go down for the full 20 years.

In a letter (above) from lawyer William Harrison in Hawaii, Harrison told Hobbs that the Randall Devine, the FBI agent in charge of Strike's case would do nothing to help unless Steve Strike gave him a 'proffer' - meaning confessed to more crimes in Thailand.

The lawyer an adjunct professor in the Hawaii Innocence Project wrote to Hobbs saying:

"Unfortunately you like many Americans you believe that the FBI cares for its citizens abroad. I have been dealing with the FBI for 33 years in my practice and I need you to understand that the FBI is only interested (like most cops) in putting people in jail....I am sorry if I burst your bubble."

Further the two Cambodian boys had ‘escaped’ from a children’s home.

Goudie - 'lawyer' for
the condemned

It appears they often do. This may be because firstly they are not kept under lock and key, secondly they have been used as witnesses in other cases of child sexual abuse brought by foreigners in Pattaya and thirdly, unfortunately these children make their cash in the sex trade.

Currently the matter has been referred to the U.S. State Department and Department of Justice. It has also been raised at a senior level in Thailand. This is inconvenient because US law enforcement agencies cannot at the moment it appears speak to someone above the level of colonel (It is a political thing).

Who is to blame?

The initial complaint came from the children’s home,where the boys first are said to have confessed to their guardians.

The Women and Children’s department of the Thai Police Region 2 carried out the investigation, and the FBI appear to be part of a cover-up.

On the local grapevine FBI are coming in for a lot of stick, perhaps because people believe they should know better and there appear to be similar cases.

There are currently widespread allegations of payments made by them to ease the course of justice, or injustice, depending on your viewpoint. But these payments are accountable and expenses have to be paid and would have to adhere to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Believing that the Thai authorities now know and accept what has gone on Hobbs states:

'There have been a large number of law enforcement failures in both countries. It can be noted that Thai law enforcement made many accidental mistakes (and assumptions) but it is clear U.S. law enforcement has been negligent and intentionally obstructive in its actions and concealed critical evidence of a known paedophile'

Miller

Indeed there is a strong resemblance between Hobbs in his passport picture and a bearded Steve Strike but in cases which result in long prison sentences - and a total destruction of life as they know it for the defendants - great care should be the norm in ID procedures.

Meanwhile unless the authorities decide otherwise Hobbs could face an a long in Pattaya sentence unless somebody steps in.

The Pattaya Court recently dished out a 38-year-sentence to an American man found guilty of child sexual abuse.

Ian Tracey

In this case, which also involved the FBI - the defendant Gregory Miller*, a school teacher at an international school, the Supreme Court has declared a mistrial.

A retrial has also been granted in the case of Briton Ian Tracey* who was released from Pattaya Prison earlier this year.

The victim in his case said in court that Tracey was not the man he had had sexual relations with. He had made an earlier admission to police because, he said, he was threatened with jail himself.

Andrew Tracey

Tracey believes he was mistaken for another Briton Andrew Tracey, from Wickford, Essex, who has since skipped bail. The witnesses in that case are believed to be the same Cambodian boys.

*Both Ian Tracey and Gregory Miller were at one stage the clients of Alba Laws - the company of fake Scottish lawyer Brian Goudie, aka Goldie, a self professed authority on paedophiles. Goudie is on trial for cheating Gregory's 76-year-old mother out of 7.9 million baht and is in turn suing this author for portraying his as a fake lawyer in the photo-shopped picture above.

(To be continued)

A Flying Sporran Inquiry

LINKS

Caught on tape - fake lawyer in paedophile case

British charity worker released after wrongly jailed

Have you seen this child abuser?

#ChristopherHobbs #IanTracey #GregoryMiller #BrianGoudie #

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August 31, 2014, 11:52 pm

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'THE EXPAT COMMUNITY NEEDS YOUR HELP TO RID THE COUNTRY OF THESE INDIVIDUALS'

Nice to see today a letter in the Bangkok Post from Tommy Weapon, which is a scarcely veiled reference to the two chumps Drew Noyes, and Brian Goudie aka Goldie.

I am very cautiously optimistic that the powers that be are working on this case as we speak, but I stress cautiously optimistic, because the system here is erratic and I suspect those agencies actually working on corruption issues are on system overload at the moment.

But it remains incredible how this couple has survived for so long while up on criminal charges themselves involving cheating or attempting to cheat other foreigners, and that is an indicator to foreign criminals who have been moving here from Spain's 'Costa del Crime' that Thailand is still indeed a very safe place for their ill-gotten gains.

Here's Tommy's letter:

I am wondering how long the Thai government is going to allow certain foreign criminals to reside in the Kingdom? There are two foreigners currently living in Thailand who have both fraudulently claimed to be lawyers and run law companies.

They have cheated and swindled many people and paid not one baht in tax. The companies only exist to launder their ill-gotten gains. One of them currently residing on Koh Samui was thrown out of Australia after serving a jail sentence.

He lives in Thailand under an assumed name. The other lives in Pattaya and was shameless enough to actually claim he was bought to Thailand by the King after the recession in 1997 to help rebuild the country.

What is even more disturbing is both have taken out vexatious litigation claiming libel against a British journalist who was brave enough to expose their dirty dealings.

They are making a mockery of the justice system, clogging up the courts with litigation designed to silence people who are trying to protect the public.

I urge the new officials in power to have a close at these people, the expat community needs your help to rid Thailand of these undesirables.

Tommy Weapon

Perth

Meanwhile, Brian Goudie, the Brian Goldie, who was jailed in Australia for theft from a West Australian company and who was on the run from Scottish police is up on the internet raving about his development in Bang Khao Bay in Koh Samui.

This is one of the pictures. The for sale sign have of course been superimposed (photo-shopped) by someone else. But the warning is clear enough and correct. He neither owns the house or legally owns the land. Last week a developer was offered the seaside patch next to this house saying is was up for sale because the last buyer had not made payments. Bang goes those seaside apartments he has been trying to sell on the net. Disclaimer: The author wishes to disassociate himself from the accusation 'thieving scum'. He does not agree with the (under)statement.

Apologies to the real owner

COMMENT: A reader has written in to explain the meaning of peely-wally'. Perhaps it would be best if I used it in a sentence in the following few paragraphs.

Well I was sitting in the splendid 'Einstein' Cafe Bar at The Nine today and I could not help but burst out laughing thinking how upset fake lawyer Brian Goudie would be if he knew what I knew in relation to a future case.

That however was not the reason for the mirth - the mirth was actually caused by the fact that his former 'lawyer', actually more of a lawyer than Goudie because she will graduate soon, had jumped ship some months ago.

This was shortly after he put her picture on the net with his hands between her legs as some sort of jolly jape. He won't be doing that again, I understand.

The last woman who jumped ship (the managing director of one of his phony companies) found that porno pictures of her featuring the said fake lawyer's glaekit andpeedy peely-wallymember had been put on the internet in a fit of someone's malice. A complaint was made by Pattaya Police, who are presumably waiting for someone to finance the prosecution, as she has little and quite frankly that does not get a policeman's feet off the desk.

I had to say I almost burst out laughing again when I saw where the word apparently derived from in the 19th Century. (With thanks for to 'The Golden Goldie Book of Tips on How To Sound Interesting On The Internet')

Coming soon: glaekit and peedy explained.

#BrianGoudie #DrewNoyes #DavidHanks

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'You've got blood on your hands'

After trying for four years to get his clients cash out of LM Tokyo based financial adviser Martin Terpilowski watched in horror, but not surprise, as the funds crashed and went into receivership.

But the bitterest pill to swallow was being told by LM salesman Martin Vernier:'For once in your life take responsibility for your actions'

Vernier was talking about Terpilowski's commissions saying how he had previously been boasting about them. But there was no mention of how Terpilowksi had been tried to recover his clients fund for years from the LM (Mis)Managed Performance Fund. Not surprisingly Terpilowski saw red.

Intro by Lindell Lucy at www.rapeofhongkong.com

LM sales manager, Martin Venier, constantly flew around the globe persuading advisers to put more of their clients’ money into the Managed Performance Fund. Meanwhile, Martyn Terpilowski was desperately trying to get his clients’ money out.

When LM went into voluntary administration on March 19, 2013, Terpilowski fired an email to Venier, saying, “You all have blood on your hands”.

Vernier

Venier responded by accusing Terpilowski of being one of “those brokers” who were greedy and unethical. He said, “For once in your life, please take responsibility for your actions.” When Terpilowski angrily pointed out that Venier’s accusations were bizarre, hypocritical, and unfounded, Venier threatened to call the Hong Kong police.

The next day, the Sydney Morning Herald printed a scathing news article, which reported that half of LM was controlled by a company registered in Hong Kong, and Drake had used this company to make a $16 million dollar loan to himself. Terpilowski forwarded the news article to Venier and said,

“I never saw the HK police today and it would be funny if they arrested me before you? Are u still in HK? Or have u run away…?”

Sources say that Venier is no longer responding to emails. He seems to have disappeared.

-

Below is an announcement sent to advisers on the day LM collapsed. It is followed by a heated exchange of words between Martyn Terpilowski and Martin Venier.

LM’s Announcement

From: LM Investment Management Ltd [mail@LMaustralia.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 6:30 PM
To: Martyn Terpilowski
Subject: LM Announcement

www.LMaustralia.com

Financial Adviser/Intermediary Information Only

19 March 2013 Dear Martyn, The information contained within this letter is all that is currently available and able to be provided by LM Investment Management Ltd (LMIM). Our LM offices and regional managers will have no further or additional information available to you at this time. All queries for additional information should be forwarded to mail@LMaustralia.com. Further information will be forthcoming, and we will send it to you as soon as it becomes available. Announcement

LM boss Peter Drake

The Board of LM Investment Management Ltd (Administrator Appointed) (LMIM, the company) advises that after full consideration of its obligations as a company and its duties to ensure it acts in the best interests of investors in the LM Funds, it is placing the Responsible Entity, LMIM, into voluntary administration. This is not liquidation or receivership, and neither LMIM nor any of the Funds is in liquidation or receivership. Events over the past couple of weeks, however, have meant that the Company and the funds are in imminent jeopardy of being unable to meet creditor obligations, and hence the appointment. Voluntary Administration is as a proactive approach by the Board to officially bring in independent financial advice across the company and the Funds. This step is believed to be in the best interests of protecting the Funds and maximising returns for investors, and prevent LMIM company cash flow issues going forward. Voluntary Administration has no effect on the structure of the Funds. The Voluntary Administrator assumes the responsibility for the decision making in the Responsible Entity role, however the funds will continue to be managed in accordance with their governing documents and the applicable Corporations Act and Trustee Law. The Voluntary Administrators will be working with senior LM investment personnel to optimise investor outcomes. In addition, the Voluntary Administrator must comply fully with its own requirements under the Corporations Act, in its administration role. All licence conditions of the Responsible Entity have been and continue to be met, and there has been no breach in this regard. The financial requirements (Net Tangible Assets) of the Responsible Entity licence remain in order. The Funds are unit trusts, the assets of which are separate and segregated from those of LMIM. The process

Within the next couple of days you will receive a separate communication from the Voluntary Administrator. It will provide more detail around the process of the Voluntary Administration. The ultimate aim of the Voluntary Administrator is to manage and resolve a solution over a period of time, yet to be worked out and about which you will receive communication. Why make this appointment?

Whilst the creditor issues rest with LMIM and are quarantined from the Funds, the Funds need to be shielded from any ensuing reputational damage. The Board considers that the appointment of a specialist bringing with it, as it does, expertise and independence will afford the best protection for the Funds in this regard. What to expect over the next couple of weeks

There is an enormous amount of work to be undertaken this week to ensure the optimal results from this appointment for all the investors in all of the LM Funds. Many of you will have questions and those questions will be answered. Please bear with us though, as our response may not be as prompt as usual, due to the expected initial high volume of queries. The Board is earnest in this appointment as the best means of providing arms-length, commerciality and financial analysis to the solutions Further information will be provided, as stated above and below. All LM Funds are now closed pending a full independent analysis by the Voluntary Administrato

Regular Fund updates will continue to be provided via the LM website, www.LMaustralia.com. LM Australian Structured Product Fund

It will be business as usual for this fund with no financial impact expected as a result of the Voluntary Administrator. LM and the Voluntary Administrator will communicate directly with Deutsche Bank, the holder and underwriter of the notes in each of the closed end products within the Fund. Communication to investors and advisors as required will continue. Any income distributions and the maturity dates of each of the offers within the Fund continue uninterrupted. A full report will be provided to you following the Voluntary Administrator’s analysis. LM First Mortgage Income Fund, LM Currency Protected Australian Income Fund and LM Institutional Currency Protected Australian Income Fund

We do not expect any change for investors in these Funds. The manager will continue with the orderly sale of all assets for eventual wind up of the Fund. Regular periodic capital distributions for investors have commenced, and will continue. Regular communication will continue. The appointment of the Voluntary Administrator brings with it independent, arms-length, specialist financial expertise. LM Australian Income Fund

We expect this Fund will continue to be managed as it has been, according to its main documents. The Voluntary Administrator is conducting a full analysis in conjunction with senior investment personnel from LM and on its completion a report will be provided for you. LM Managed Performance Fund

We expect this Fund will continue to be managed as it has been, according to its main documents. The Voluntary Administrator is conducting a full analysis in conjunction with senior investment personnel from LM, and on its completion a report will be provided for you. The appointment of the Voluntary Administrator brings with it independent, arms-length, specialist financial expertise. LM Cash Performance Fund

We expect this Fund will continue to be managed as it has been, according to its main documents. The Voluntary Administrator will release a report on the Fund as soon as possible. In Conclusion

This decision has been well considered in consultation with independent specialist accounting and solvency practitioners and with independent legal counsel. LMIM cannot run a risk of being unable to pay its creditors, and this is the process being established to work out the issues. LM is acting to maximise outcomes for all investors. Yours Sincerley, The Directors LM Investment Management Ltd Download a PDF version of this update The LM products are solely for distribution via financial advisers and intermediaries. LM requests investors consult a financial adviser and read and consider the relevant disclosure document before making any decisions on their investment. The LM Funds are not bank deposits. This communication is general information on the LM funds issued by LM Investment Management Ltd. privacy | contact us © LM Investment Management Ltd 2011 Responsible Entity & AFSL No. 220281 ABN 68 077 208 461

'YOU HAVE BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS'

From: Martyn Terpilowski
Sent: 19 March 2013 18:40
To: ’Martin Venier’
Subject: FW: LM Announcement

So now all them poor b@stards who carried on placing money with you after being deceived are in trouble… plus my clients who have been trying to get their money out. This is a mis-managed mess and should have stopped taking money from people years ago. You all have blood on your hands for that as do all the disgusting brokers who took 9% and ignored all the obvious signs that this was going this way.

How predictable was this? I can’t believe I have been the only one knowing this was coming for the last 4 yrs…

Unbelievable.

Martyn

'Take responsibility for YOUR actions'

Martin Venier

From: Martin Venier [mvenier@lmaustralia.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 6:45 PM
To: ’Martyn Terpilowski’
Subject: RE: LM Announcement

Dear Martyn, For once in your life, please take responsibility for your actions. You boasted to me about how [much you made] in commissions one year. I hope you are happy with the successful sales you have made to earn your commission. You are one of those brokers I am afraid and I feel sorry for your clients. Please do not email again. Kind regards, Martin

Martin Venier Regional Manager International | Treasury T +852 2501 0262 | D +61 2 8268 0100| F +852 2530 1076 | E mvenier@lmaustralia.com A 16/F Aon China Building 29 Queens Road Central, Central, Hong Kong S.A.R. | P 16/F Aon China Building 29 Queens Road, Central, Hong Kong S.A.R.

www.LMaustralia.com

YOU TOSSER..SHYSTER..SHOULD GO TO PRISON

Martyn Terpilowski

From: Martyn Terpilowski
Sent: 19 March 2013 18:55
To: ’Martin Venier’
Subject: RE: LM Announcement

Yes u tosser – I made good sales being honest and my clients like me, I just made a mistake getting involved with LM, but for 4 yrs have been desperately trying to get my clients money out as I knew this was coming and I have told u that many times.– I could have carried on selling this sh1t and made a fortune but I did not as I knew and I was right and u are an absolute shyster for writing this and I hope to see you very very soon. You have continued to sell this knowing the problems and paying high commission, you should go to prison. I certainly hope I see you out and about this weekend, you disgusting little person.

Rgds

Martyn

Martin Venier

From: Martin Venier [mvenier@lmaustralia.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 7:06 PM
To: ’Martyn Terpilowski’
Subject: RE: LM Announcement

Dear Martyn, your threatening email and the others you sent have been forwarded to head office and we will contact the HK police tomorrow as a result. Please do not communicate with me again. Kind regards, Martin

Martin Venier Regional Manager International | Treasury T +852 2501 0262 | D +61 2 8268 0100| F +852 2530 1076 | E mvenier@lmaustralia.com A 16/F Aon China Building 29 Queens Road Central, Central, Hong Kong S.A.R. | P 16/F Aon China Building 29 Queens Road, Central, Hong Kong S.A.R. www.LMaustralia.com

Martyn Terpilowski

From: Martyn Terpilowski
Sent: 19 March 2013 22:59
To: ’Martin Venier’
Cc: ’Debbie Leung’; ‘Peter Drake’; ‘[Martyn's Colleague]‘
Subject: RE: LM Announcement

Martin

You can send your emails to your Head Office and the Hong Kong Police – that is fine. I have not threatened physical violence but for sure I would love to see you and look you straight in the eye. The only physical threat of violence ever in our relationship was offered by you at your office, when you stood up and smashed your fists on the table asking how I dare come to your office and question your integrity… I am sure Debbie would concur as she was there. You soon sat down when you realised that you are 4 foot tall and I am not. I was completely right to question your integrity as I always knew I was.

Your comment below regarding ‘taking responsibility for my own actions’ is quite ridiculous Martin and I am happy to take my LM dossier to any regulator in the world. I have lots of evidence to prove that for over 4yrs I have never invested with LM and questioned everything about LM. I have taken this up with all the bond providers and constantly suggested that they do not deal with you due to the constant lies and deceit. I did very well in the good years for the markets but not with products paying 9% commission in bonds. When I did all my LM, it paid 3% Martin and people could get there money out again. You can try to blame me as much as you want but I have a ridiculous amount of evidence to prove that I have questioned you for years and always knew this would happen. Throughout this time I did no LM business despite the ridiculous rewards on offer. During this time you constantly travelled the region selling more and more of this products which was basically gated to unsuspecting clients who were never told the truth. You pass the blame to the brokers (you know I did none and that can be proved easily), but it was obvious if the truth was known, no one would ever buy this. I have documented this time and time again and have a very good dossier on LM. I have had your number since day 1 and you know it and saying that I was in on it absolutely pathetic and juvenile. I honestly believe you should go to prison as money taken in the last few years has been taken through false pretences, all the time knowing that you were in trouble. The brokers who sold it should also be in serious trouble as there was no way they did not know the stupid risks they were taking with client’s money. You like your boss Peter Drake have always acted like a megalomaniac, passing off your obscene commission levels and the nonsensical nature of everything LM, as me not understanding Australia. Well Martin I did and am clearly far cleverer than you are as I predicted this in every meeting that we ever had and collected as much evidence as possible, so no Martin, I am gutted for my clients but always knew this was coming and they know I have done everything to help them. In another respect at least this stops your lies and all your dodgy brokers will finally stop making money from this sham as it is basically theft and I hope you have to answer for it instead of writing ridiculous emails like the one [above]. It is theft as I have told you many times – it was sold without the facts and clients were lied to repeatedly and it was encouraged by you and your superiors. I can take responsibility as do not have such blood on my hands as you clearly do. There is a very good email trail to prove this Martin, I am sure you know that

Please forward this email to your head office, your lawyers, the regulator, the Hong Kong police or anyone else… I hope to see you in a courtroom somewhere soon mate…

Sleep well.

Martyn

From Martyn Terpilowski the day the above article was published in the Sydney Morning Herald

From: Martyn Terpilowski
Sent: 20 March 2013 23:20
To: ’Martin Venier’
Cc: ’Debbie Leung’; ‘Peter Drake’; ‘[Martyn's Colleague]‘
Subject: RE: LM Announcement

http://www.smh.com.au/business/when-drakes-empire-came-crumbling-down-20130320-2geq9.html?

Martin – u little scumbag… can I use the word scumbag..? Is that threatening to u? because u are a scumbag aren’t u? I never saw the HK police today and it would be funny if they arrested me before you? Are u still in HK? Or have u run away u evil little thief? U must hate me as I was right about everything and whatever u say that is not true, I can prove it all. I could have written this article couldn’t I? I will write the one tomorrow and your name will be all over it, I assure u..….. Do not worry I have the proof – before u call the lawyers in…. U have probably done a runner already..

Talk soon my friend.

Martyn

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Ejaculate slower with the Bangkok Post!

September 2, 2014, 10:59 am

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There's something very odd going on at the Bangkok Post online. Under a story today headed: "36 per cent of men ejaculate too fast' they published the following picture".

Now I can understand their reasons for instance for not publishing pictures of a man bringing himself to ejaculation but I am not sure what this picture is meant to say. It looks like a man on a motorcycle eyeing up a hooker.

I don't know. Is the layout man getting off on this? Or what is the subliminal message . 'Do it in the rain and make it last?'

Actually those 36 per cent of men are between the ages of 20-60 years old so count me out. There are of course many instant and easy cures to this medical condition

One of them is six pints of lager is one.

UPDATED: Sex - ThaiVisa - and the boiler rooms

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CONTEMPT? ABANDON HOPE ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE

September 3, 2014, 1:20 am

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LOST IN TRANSLATION

Foto- Jan Jansen and Drew Noyes at the Lions Club!

It was supposed to be the day of reckoning. After three years of being jostled and pushed about and having my feet stamped on outside court rooms and constant verbal abuse by two fake foreign lawyers and a former pimp in Australia it appeared they had been finally caught out.

At a previous hearing at Bangkok Criminal an American Court Drew Walter Noyes, and two Scotsmen, Brian Goudie, from Falkirk and David Hanks, from Girvan, had been warned by a judge after a witness reported them for taking pictures in the court.

They had all been asked to produce their phones. The judge decided not to check their phones individually (at least one – Noyes – had two mobile phones). Instead she warned that if any pictures appeared anyway she would take the issue very seriously indeed.

The judge told Chris Gleeson, the co-owner of a range of language schools in Bangkok and Thailand’s eastern seaboard: ‘Tell me if this happens and I will take this seriously.”

Lo and behold shortly afterwards up pops my picture taken in court on the website phuketnewsonline which is a bit like The Pattaya-Times very short on news, but full of material lifted from somewhere else.

The picture is under a completely false story headlined ‘An International News Agency Retracts False Stories by Andrew Drummond’ (that’s me) who the story later goes on to say is a convicted criminal.

Anyway I remonstrated with the owner of this site a Dutchman called Jan Jansen. who denied that he was a friend of Drew Noyes and said it was a mistake made by a member of his staff, so he pulled it down.

But he refused to say who sent him the story, which was by now very obvious because searching his site I also saw other stuff sent to the phuketnewsonline from Noyes’ Pattaya Times online which was also in contempt of court. And of course Noyes and Jansen were a lot closer than he made out. In fact the Pattaya Times had published a completely fabricated court judgment under the heading – ‘Drew Noyes Cleared of All Charges’.

Part of the totally fabricated 'acquitted of all charges report' published by phuketnewsonline.

Quite clearly Noyes has not been cleared of all charges. He is on trial in Pattaya for the attempted extortion of the Thonglor Clinic in Jomtien demanding 2.3 million baht to stop a police raid on his premises, when presumably something illegal would be found and the Pattaya Times would publish a report. While Noyes was cleared of a libel charges - contrary to his claims both the Pattaya court and appeal court refused his applications to counter-sue.

The original report in the Pattaya Times

His colleague Brian Goudie is on trial in Pattaya for posing as a lawyer to cheat a 76-year-old American woman out of 7.9 million baht (about £149,000) and the third man David Hanks, former registered owner of the ‘Masquerades’ a brothel in Keysborough, an industrial suburb of Melbourne, is on trial for racketeering – working with what the Thai press described as a ‘mafia group’ lending money to Russians in Pattaya at 60 per cent per month. (These are the guys who recently tried to scam American billionaire Bill Monson),

Hanks - racketeering charge

Anyway back to the court case where my lawyer presented the evidence of contempt. It’s a different judge.

Did any of you take this photo and give it to phuketnewsonline?. No, they all say. #DrewNoyes points to my Thai assistance and says: ‘It was her!’.

They all claimed their phones have been checked already. Their phones had not been checked.

Attempts to contact the original judge appear to be unsuccessful. She had not written anything in her trial report of picture taking in court. If anyone takes any pictures again, said the judge, it would be taken seriously. Cases can be taken against phuketnewsonline, she added.

Chris Gleeson gave evidence in my case (I cannot report this) and at the end he was asked if he wishes to say anything further. He states that he is very concerned over the contempt because the last judge had promised she would take action. He complains of the delaying tactics of the defence and says Drummond is a ‘famous’ journalist who is fighting for people who have been cheated in Thailand, and trying to raise three children at the same time. This can be reported as it is in relationship to the contempt claim.

However these statements do not in exist in the court records, but neither was a lot of what he said under cross examination. When he complained, he was told, that as he had said those things in his evidence in chief, it was not necessary to repeat them….and that I am afraid is the Thai system.

There is no verbatim record of evidence. It is up to the judge what he or she writes down. It is easy to see how this is open to not only abuse but serious miscarriages of justice. Although there is no suggestion that this is happening in this case.

Goudie - fraud charge

Once again it was pandemonium in court as #BrianGoudie and company kept remonstrating.

‘What on earth is going my assistant?" here asked my assistant?’ and then explained to the judges what really was going on. The judge apologized.

Goudie had tried to accuse me of contempt of court by presenting a report in which I merely updated readers of court dates!

Goudie, who stars in his own episode of ‘Serial Swindlers’ ‘Brian Goldie – Swindler Scot’ – he changed his name to Goudie before coming to Thailand – is, I have to say, fooling all the Thai courts. ‘It’s sair to bair’.

Everything of course was lost in translation the continial changing of judges in these cases means that each time it takes quite a while for them to realise what is going on because of course they do not understand English. Hence whenever I go to testify and Goudie says 'sh*tface' or ' c@nt' it goes over their ears.

Meanwhile this case in which I was returning libel charges

brought against me by this trio has been adjourned to a date in December – when perhaps we might here an hour’s worth of actual evidence.

And I guess I will not get my kids back to school in the UK for many years to come.

Meanwhile tomorrow in Pattaya Court Brian Goudie will fight an application to have his bail withdrawn on his cheating charges.

#BrianGoudie #BrianGoldie #DrewNoyes #DavidHanks

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FUND SALESMAN WHO SAID LM WAS 'HIGHLY REGULATED' DOES A BELATED ABOUT TURN

September 3, 2014, 6:11 am

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'IT WAS A CLUMSY USE OF WORDS'

People who invested in the LM Managed Performance Fund thought their investments was as 'safe as houses'. But LM invested the cash in property and the property crashed.

Many also could forgiven for thinking that investing in LM was as safe as investing in a private bank because that is what they were told by the European boss Simon Bottle who was based in London. (Then again investing in private banks does not seem too safe nowadays)

LM boss Peter Drake was obviously impressed with this wonderboy's words so he put Simon Bottle's speech up on his website.

But when LM crashed Simon Bottle did an about turn. He set up an operation to help victims. He had been quoted out of context in an Australian Broadcasting Documentary, he said. 'It was a clumsy use of workds'.

Indeed it was and it was a 'clumsy use of words' by independent financial advisers throughout Asia - such as the money is going into 'commercial development' which in criminal law parlance would come under the category 'obtaining money by false pretences'. However these are money men with white collars not guys getting punters to 'Find the Lady' down the Portobello Road.

Martin Terpilowski a financial adviser based in Tokyo was not impressed. He has been trying to get his clients out of LM for years.

"You are either corrupt or stupid and the brokers also. You do not need to explain to brokers that you are sorry as they are responsible also – they knew. As I said 9% soft coms when no money coming out is worse than a ponzi scheme.

Drake was a meglamaniac who surrounded himself by yes people, or people equally as corrupt. To come out and say u are all shocked just shows how disgusting the offshore industry is".

CONTINUING THE REVELATIONS OF MARTIN TERPILOWSKI

Intro by Lindell Lucy of www.rapeofhongkong.comRape

On March 4th, 2013, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) aired a shocking documentary about the poorly-regulated and “shadowy world of managed investment companies”. It featured interviews with families and retirees who had lost their life savings. It also featured a long segment about LM Investment Management.

At one point, LM’s London-based European sales manager, Simon Bottle, was shown in a YouTube clip telling a group of potential investors that LM was “highly regulated in Australia”, “regulated twice”, and “regulated as a private bank”. None of the claims were true.

Bottle allegedly made similar claims on his CV, which stated, “LM Investment operates in Australia as a conservative and highly rated private bank.”

Two weeks after the ABC documentary aired, LM went into voluntary administration, and all employees at LM’s London office lost their jobs, including Simon Bottle.

Three months later, Martyn Terpilowski received an email from Bottle, who was promoting a new company he had co-founded called Alpha Diversify, which provides fund distribution services to offshore advisers.

The subject line of the email was “LM Investment – the elephant in the room”. Bottle said he was working with a group of brokers who were well-organized and well-resourced (i.e., wealthy from sales commissions). Their objective was to “maximize adviser/investor outcomes” (i.e., try to help investors recover money while ensuring that negligent advisers wouldn’t have to pay for it). The name of the group of brokers was not mentioned, but it was probably the Advisers Committee for Investors (ACI).

Bottle said the rest of his email was going to be characterized by “brutal honesty”. He claimed that he was shocked when LM went into voluntary administration, and he described how he had personally suffered by losing weeks of salary (some investors had lost a lifetime of savings). Bottle also claimed that the ABC documentary had treated him unfairly by taking his quote out of context. He said, “I was in NO WAY pitching LM as a private bank in the sense of being a private client wealth manager.” (That’s apparently not what his CV said, but regardless, he still seems to have been pitching LM as regulated like a private bank.)

Bottle’s original Youtube video has since been removed from the internet. All that remains is the clip shown on ABC.

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Below is Simon Bottle’s email to Martyn Terpilowski, followed by their subsequent exchange of words.

Simon Bottle

On 21 Jun, 2013, at 4:17 PM, “Simon Bottle” wrote:

Dear Martyn,

Alpha Diversify is a fund distribution company Paddy Burtt and I have recently launched into the offshore space. Until March 2013 when the office closed, we were both working for LM Investment UK in London. In this email we confront this LM elephant in the room head on.

One of the main aims of this mail, as a constructive input to the latest LM situation, is to advise that a well organised/resourced and influential committee has been set up by a group of brokers. The group has been formulated to maximise adviser/investor outcomes through a number of means.
If you are not already engaged with the group, we urge you to please contact us and we will provide the details.

We are 100% committed to total transparency as the overriding principle Alpha Diversify is founded upon. The brutal honesty of the below email establishes we are entirely focused on our client relationships being grounded in total openness. This is not an email tirade against our former employer which would be neither professional nor of use.

The appointment of a voluntary administrator (VA) was a horrendous shock to both Paddy and me, as it was to the whole industry. The London team had the same information as advisers such as audited accounts and fund portfolio specifics that included validated valuations etc. We were aware that the Trilogy/media situation was having an impact on the business, but at no point was the likelihood of administration raised with us, even at the point where the LM CEO was in London days before the VA was appointed. Given how in the dark we were kept on the risk of the administration outcome, we await the findings of the current investigations to provide some objective transparency into the actions of those responsible.

Some of you will want to know how the LM scenario played out for us. On the day the voluntary VA was brought into the LM Head Office, we were informed of the news a few hours ahead of the adviser/investor notification. We were informally told to expect redundancy with virtual immediate effect. It rapidly became painfully apparent that the LM entity structure allowed the VA to immediately cut the international offices adrift. The London office was left with liabilities far in excess of any assets available to cover them. All invoices/bills/salaries historically were paid by LM HQ into the London office but that link had been severed. The London team collectively spent weeks managing the understandable deluge of adviser calls and liquidating the LM UK entity which was effectively unpaid. We will not receive any payment from LM Head Office or the VA for the outstanding salary owed and our notice period. As creditors, the little we can salvage from the
liquidation proceeds will take months to materialise. We are not looking for sympathy – we simply make the point that the LM earthquake struck unannounced at the centre of our lives too and we still are dealing with the major aftershocks.

Continuing in the vein of ‘warts and all’ honesty, I bring to your attention the piece of LM media coverage I was quoted in. A journalist took one snippet from a lengthy videoed presentation I gave in late 2012 where in isolation I said – “We are regulated as a private bank, and regulated as a
fund manager.” It was a clumsy use of words in which I was trying to communicate that, in addition to the ASIC regulation of LM as an investment manager, the AIF as a fund lent to property developers and was also ASIC regulated. I was in NO WAY pitching LM as a private bank in the sense of being a private client wealth manager. My entire presentation made it abundantly clear to a room of market professional intermediaries that LM was an asset manager. This fact is then also reiterated over and over again in the materials required to make an investment including factsheets, fund memorandums and application forms.

The LM experience has been brutal for us all. We at Alpha Diversify have learnt a number of painful lessons. Our priority number 1 is to never be exposed to anything similar EVER again. So what does that mean Alpha Diversify stands for? We demand onshore quality for the offshore market
through nuts and bolts due diligence into simple propositions that can be easily understood. We need to see straightforward structuring without any opaque layers. We will be ruthless in seeking out quality products where the portfolio does NOT rely on valuations of what assets might be worth in the future after additional investment/development. Equally we will not touch any solutions where an investor’s capital value is tied up with the sustainability of the provider’s business unless there is an irrefutably robust balance sheet. We are interested in non-correlation but not at all
costs.

All the above has defined the choice of structured product and fund management providers we will work with. We are currently for example working on an offshore share class with a UK FCA regulated manager who is to launch a non-correlated fund that invests in only 100% liquid investments with clearly specified and managed risk parameters laid out in the prospectus.

If you have the same aims going forward in product selection, then you now know what we stand for and why we will be OBSESSIVE in avoiding the pitfalls going forward.

Thank you for your time in reading this mail.

Best regards,

Simon

Simon Bottle
Managing Director
Alpha Diversify Ltd
www.alphadiversify.com

Martyn Terpilowski

—–Original Message—–
From: Martyn Terpilowski
Sent: 21 June 2013 08:38
To: Simon Bottle
Subject: Re: LM Investment – the elephant in the room

LM have been dodgy for the last few years and obviously so. Anyone who put new business with them with 9pc commissions and then in a bond in the last few years, should go to prison. I am not sure how much u know much about me but I have been fighting with LM for years to get money out and predicted this. It was no surprise to anyone with half a brain. I don’t want any connection with anyone who was selling this rubbish and I am not surprised at all. 9pc soft commissions means clients gets screwed and I am sure you all knew that. My clients invested in 2005 when commissions were 3pc and u could not wrap in a bond. They have been in redemption queues for years whilst all the idiots were putting money into what was obviously a flawed fund.

I am working directly with KordaMentha and I am aiming to separate myself from all the people who invested in this fund after 2008. I find it disgusting so there is my answer.

Martyn

Sent from my iPhone

Simon Bottle

—–Original Message—–
From: Simon Bottle
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 4:55 PM
To: ‘Martyn Terpilowski’
Subject: RE: LM Investment – the elephant in the room

Thanks Martyn.

I appreciate your candour.

I’ll make sure you don’t receive any more contact from Alpha Diversify.

Simon Bottle
Managing Director
www.alphadiversify.com

Alpha Diversify Limited is authorised and regulated by The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA ref 490781)

Martyn Terpilowski

—–Original Message—–
From: Martyn Terpilowski
Sent: 22 June 2013 12:08
To: ‘Simon Bottle’
Subject: RE: LM Investment – the elephant in the room

Candour? It makes my blood boil.. Is Martin Venier involved in this also? Horrible little man that he was… You are either corrupt or stupid and the brokers also. You do not need to explain to brokers that you are sorry as they are responsible also – they knew. As I said 9% soft coms when no money
coming out is worse than a ponze scheme.. Drake was a meglamaniac who surrounded himself by yes people, or people equally as corrupt. To come out and say u are all shocked just shows how disgusting the offshore industry is. Lots of brokers were doing 100% LM in a bond, so getting 16% com – so you were surprised when this fund went bad? Come on… u all lined your pockets and are now trying to cover up for yourself. This mail should go to the Sydney Morning Herald, it is such a joke… When this fund paid only 3% and could not be be put in portfolio bonds, it was a small fund. Why do you think it suddenly started to grow so much during the GFC??… er.. commissions.. No honest broker would have touched it at that.. It never made sense and I have been saying this for 4 yrs.. so please.. I have heard all these idiots acting shocked and it is laughable… You all made a lot of money out of it. The only thing I agree with you on is that the Auditor and Regulator should be in big trouble also, but seriously the rest… a joke.

Hope you can sleep at nights.

Rgds
Martyn

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ALLEGATIONS OF REVENGE PORN, FRAUD AND DECEIVING PROSECUTOR

September 3, 2014, 6:35 pm

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BUT FAKE BARRISTER IS RIDING HIGH IN THAILAND - WHILE HIS 'EX' IS LED TO THE SLAUGHTER

Fake British barrister Brian Goudie walked free from Pattaya Provincial Court today after lawyers for 76-year-old Barbara Fanelli Miller who claim Goudie cheated her out of 7.9 million baht (£149,000) withdrew their application to have his 400,000 (£7,850) baht bail revoked.

While he was still a free man anyway he had to hand in the land title deeds of the former ‘Blarney Stone’ pub in Pattaya – which he renamed ‘The Jaggie Thistle’ and operated without a drinks licence – to the court.

So he has had to say goodbye to something like 12 million's baht worth of property he acquired under very suspect circumstances in the first place.

This however paves the way for Goudie, who was convicted and sentenced to six years jail in Australia for stealing several hundred thousand dollars from a mining company, to buy himself out of posing as a British barrister with an Honours Degree in Law, to cheat the elderly American woman out of her cash.

Goudie had already bought himself off similar charges of cheating British estate agent John Jepson, from Norfolk. He had taken Jepson’s Bangkok apartment in lieu of his legal fees.

'Jaggie Thistle'

This is possible in Thailand where at any stage of a trial brought not by the police or public prosecutor, but the victim, the defendant can make a financial offer to the victim and if the victim accepts, the case will be withdrawn.

Otherwise the victim has to go through the long process of suing in the civil court. In this case the plaintiff is expected to take the advice of her Thai lawyer.

In fact a civil judgment had already been awarded in favour of Mrs. Miller from Madison, Wisconsin, but it appears the lawyers from Sukhothai Law International were unable to enforce it.

One person who of course will suffer in all this is one of the star witnesses for the prosecution. She is Boonrod Baikratok Goudie’s ex-girlfriend, nicknamed Nang, whom he had installed as the managing director of Jimmy International, the company owned by former Ulster drugs runner Jimmy ‘Doc’ Halliday who died in the Bangkok-Pattaya Hospital of necrotising fasciitis (a flesh eating disease)

Jimmy Halliday

Goudie was his lawyer and convinced him on his death bed to sign a Power of Attorney so he could sell his View Talay apartment to pay the hospital bills. When Halliday died Goudie used the POA to acquire the majority shareholding of Jimmy under his inactive company ‘Ramidin Holdings Company Ltd.

Anyway, having given evidence for the prosecution after lawyers put a lien on Jimmy International preventing anybody from removing her as Managing Director, Sukhothai-Inter-Law then made a deal which has now seen her removed as a director – and open to prosecution herself.

She is now being investigated for theft of materials from Jimmy International. As Md of the company she was entitled to remove articles – now as no longer Managing Director she has to return them or go to jail.

Still that’s life and it is the second time she has taken a fall for Goudie. The first time was when she was charged with operating the Jaggie Thistle as a bar without a drinks licence. But actually it turns out that when the charge was brought Brian himself was MD of Jimmy International and he hurriedly switched names to her. The prosecutor has discovered this – and it is under active investigation. It appears Goudie set up his lover.

Former girlfriend Christina Spence laughing about Goudie's
'war wound' which shifted from his groin to his side. Goudie
had also falsely claimed to have been a Captain in the Royal
Marines.

That of course is not half as bad as what he did when they parted and he ran off with another girl who has since ditched him, as has his recent ‘lawyer’ girlfriend. These women always cotton on much too late just as did one ex-girlfriend Christina Spence who was interviewed in the tv documentary ‘Brian Goldie – Swindler Scot’.

"I was obviously feeding that narcissistic requirement of his...but he started telling lies about inconsequential things," she said adding that eventually he told her about an alleged fraud on the Royal Bank of Scotland. .

."He was more or less letting me know how clever he really was. True to his personality he wants and needs people think he was clever, intelligent and capable of pulling off things other people cant foresee....."

"With Brian any suggestion that he should own up to a lie he has said or face the consequences or anything that he had done - that would produce a response in him that was indignant. He would be incensed at people who would find him to have done the wrong thing and and rhat anyone would punish him for that. How dare people. How dare people drop on to me."

People might agree with Deputy President of the Australian Administrative Appeals Tribunal who stated: " I have concluded that Mr Goldie is not of good character" - when rejecting his application to stay in Australia.

Brian Goudie confronted by the author for 'Serial Swindlers' on the left is Nang - later its alleged porno video and
stills which could only have come from his smart phone appeared on the net

The Technical Crime Suppression Division have passed on a file to Pattaya Police with a pornographic video and pictures of the Nang who testified that the ‘member’ in the picture belonged to Goudie. Pattaya Police have been asked to expedite the prosecution. Perhaps under the new system they will leap into action.

They did not however leap into action in a case involving two Britons and a German who claimed they were cheated by Goudie, who they say pocketed the cash awarded to them by a court – so civil and criminal cases have been lodged by their lawyers . This case had also been referred to Pattaya Police by the CSD. Nobody will be surprised if another sweetheart deal is made.

So there you have it. Goudie, then Goldie left the UK just before a warrant was issued against him for fraud on the Royal Bank of Scotland, was described in an Australian Administrative Tribunal as not a person of good character, changed his name from Goldie to Goudie and arrived in Thailand posing as a barrister and former officer of the Royal Marines to start a law company called Alba Laws, is now about to get off his second serious criminal charge of fraud and so far the whole of the Thai justice system still does not get it. It does have its funny moments though.

(Comment:)Paying off criminal charges may seem strange to viewers in the west who take the view that once you catch a thief you punish him. But this is the status quo in Thailand. In fact coupled with the Computer Crime Act libel section it makes this country a fairly safe haven for crooks. This week I had a call from a man in Pattaya claiming that his lawyer had ‘stolen’ his house. He called the lawyer a thief I presume and is now being sued for libel and computer crime act libel. ‘Why is it me who is being arrested?’ he asked. Assuming he's telling the truth Like many who have gone before him - he may have to run - chased out of the country by a criminal.

Is there a moral here?

#BrianGoudie #BrianGoldie

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CELEBRITY 'KIDS IN THE HOUSE' FBI AGENT KEPT QUIET OVER PAEDO ARREST

September 4, 2014, 2:57 pm

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AND COMPUTER FILES NEEDED FOR ALIBI WIPED IN US EMBASSY POSSESSION

Kids in the House

A celebrity FBI agent withheld information and computer files which provided alibis were deleted after an American was falsely arrested on child sexual abuse offences in Thailand, it is now claimed.

Both actions could have left Christoper Lee Hobbs with a prison sentence of 42 years as a paedophile; his life totally and utterly destroyed.

But Hobbs a senior electrical engineer with an international company managed to pay bail and investigate what had happened to him

Randall Devine a celebrity Los Angeles based agent, who stars on videos on the website ‘KidsintheHouse’ giving advice to parents on child sexual abuse dangers and internet grooming, was present after the arrest of Hobbs in Pattaya in June nearly 18 months after two young boys say they were sexually abused in a city apartment.

But Devine kept quiet about the fact that Immigration police had arrested wanted paedophile Steve Strike in an apartment in Mid Town Village, off Chalermprakiet Road, Pattaya, which Thai police mistakenly believed Hobbs used at the time the child abuse took place.

The arrest was made at the request of the United States Embassy Regional Security Officer and all law enforcement officers including those from the FBI, ICE, and DEA are likely have known.

Agent Randall Devine

Strike was escorted back to Hawaii by US Marshalls, while Hobbs was arrested for child sexual abuses. He faced 6 charges with a penalty of seven years each,

But he lived in Bangkok and his main connection was that he had an invested in a fruit juice business below the Mid Town Village apartment off which was actually rented by Strike.

A secondary but weak connection was that Hobbs had bought the delivery vehicle for the 'Big Juice' company – which was always parked there - and by which the victims are believed to have identified the apartment.

But when he asked Randall Devine to tell the Royal Thai Police Region 2 officers about Strike he said: Randall replied: “Oh we know all about Strike” – and said nothing to the Thai Police of the Woman and Children’s Protection Department.

Randall Devine has also taken part in tours of the Asia-Pacific Region giving talks on child sexual abusers.

Above is the blurb for him when he took part in a seminar when he gave a speech on 'Human Trafficking and Sex Tourism - the FBI perspective at a FBINAA 'Re-training Conference' in Nepal last year. (FBINNA - FBI National Academy Associates)

Stephen Srike

The issue was compounded when lawyers representing Hobbs spoke with the prosecutor in Hawaii about interviewing Strike on remand to see if he would talk about his activities in Thailand.

According to lawyer William Harrison Devine told the prosecutor that he and Strike could have been room-mates – and any potential deals with Strike were off.

Devine would not fly to interview Strike until he knew Strike had given a 'proffer' - a detailed statement of what he had been up to in Thailand.

That 'room mates' suggestion by Devine was enough to indicate that his earlier inaction was no accident.

FBI agents in Bangkok going by the initial CD and CC also ignored requests by Hobbs to pass information about Strike's arrest to the Thai Police.

Although Thai Immigration Police knew because they arresyed him, there would be no reason to inform other Police in Region 2 as they merely collected Strike, cancelled his visa, and handed him over to US Marshalls to take back to Hawaii.

Indictment against Strike

But worse; the back up files which Hobbs provided to the FBI provided showed all his email and other computer activity, and thus potential alibis for Hobbs, disappeared from the drives during their one month in US custody.

But more specifically when Hobbs got his computers back he found that all but 17 files between November 15 2012 and January 2013 had been erased. Critically these are the two dates between which he is alleged to have abused two young boys.

Hobbs' computer had been taken by the Thai police. But not trusting them Christopher Hobbs took his back up files to the American Embassy in Bangkok so they could verify what he said he already knew – there was no evidence to suggest he was involved in sex with minors.

Now claims Hobbs who has dual Canadian and US nationality: “The Thai police made mistakes – but what the US authorities did was a lot worse. It has the makings of a conspiracy. When this is all over I am seriously going to reconsider my US citizenship.”

The first time and only time he was allowed into the the American Embassy to see the FBI, he said we was told by an agent that they would demand he undergo a lie detector test. Hobbs immediately agreed. And he said he continually asked to take up their offer. But FBI dropped the subject.

He was never welcomed back. His sms pleas were ignored. And replies to phone calls were almost monosyllabic. 'Don't call us. You are under investigation."

So from the moment of Hobbs well publicised arrest until the present day the the FBI refused to tell investigating Thai Police that Immigration Police from Bangkok had at the U.S. Embassy’s request arrested wanted US child sexual offender Stephen Strike at the apartment during the vital period. This is confirmed by Thai police officials.

Hobbs had had his computer analysed at Pantip Plaza in Bangkok. When he asked FBI officials what had happened to the missing files he got no reply.

Colonel Supatee Boonkrong
Pattaya Today

High level talks have been held among law enforcment officers in Chonburi and Pattaya and Hobbs has been interviewed by Police Colonel Supatee Boonkrong the superintendent of Pattaya Police who had been installed by the army led National Council for Peace and Order with a brief to fight corruption.

There appears to a general consensus that something seriously went wrong.

Sudarat Sereewat, General Secretary of the FACE Foundation (Fight Against Child Exploitation) , member of the National Committee on Human Trafficking, and also on the Development Committee to Develop Methods for Child Protection also met with Mr. Hobbs (Thursday)

It is expected that the charges will be withdrawn against Hobbs in the next 48 hours. Ms Sudarat said she was concerned at the turn of events, in particular the methods of identification, and the FBI’s secrecy.

She was also further concerned at the publicity Hobbs received when he was arrested and provided information as to what he could do to restore his good name.

She told Hobbs that she was personally not proud the police action. But had the US authorities notified the Thai authorities about the history of the apartment in question it is unlikely, she said.

Chris Hobbs with Sudarat Sereewat Pic: Andrew Drummond

In her role had asked for the two boys to be re-interviewed at the children’s home where they were being cared for and there were enough discrepancies in their accounts to caste serious doubts on the case.

Several enquiries needed to be carried out particularly over identification methods.

Strike’s computer which was not requested by the US authorities will be examined.

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LM - THE APPALLING OFFSHORE STITCH UP OF EXPAT PENSIONS

September 5, 2014, 9:27 am

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'I WANT OUT OF THIS TERRIBLE INDUSTRY!'

Simon Litster (right) on a night out in Tokyo

Potentially one of the worst culprits to put his clients’ funds into the scandal hit LM Managed Performance Fund is now the Chairman of the Advisers Committee for Investors which has appointed itself to get funds back on behalf of victims.

According to whistleblower Martyn Terpilowski, that is like having the ‘fox guard the henhouse’ for Simon Litster, senior partner of Magellan Financial Planning in Tokyo dismissed warnings five years ago that LM was in trouble and had frozen redemptions.

Magellan had put some some A$30-40 million of client funds into LM but as early as 2009 nine Litser was warned by Martin Terpilowski that the funds looked like a Ponzi scheme.

But the now sanctimonious Litster wrote back rudely saying he was at home for his son’s birthday and Magellan would make its own decisions about what to do with client funds. Even though he knew LM were freezing redemptions - he took LM executives word that they were solvent.

Fraser Jamieson 'Fuck off!"

When Terpilowski , known as 'Dr. Doom' by financial advisers in Tokyo, contacted another director of Magellan’s directors, Scot Fraser Jamieson this is the reply he got: ‘Fuck off and take tour doom elsewhere’ followed by ‘Mate, I said fuck off and I meant it’, and ‘I’m just telling you to fuck off and don’t contact me.”

It is not surprising that Terpilowski believes that the offshore financial industry is peopled by spivs or unscrupulous men in suits.

From reading these emails it is quite clear that Terpilowski is becoming an irritant to people who boasted to each other about how well they were doing.

When LM crashed, as Terpilowski had predicted, Litster accepted the chairmanship of the Advisers Committee for Investors, ACI, comprising IFA’s who had been selling LM Funds.

So IFAs who repeated the LM lies are now being asked again to be believed by clients. This is no more than what Bangkok's boiler room operators do. When the shares they have sold to clients crash and burn - they set up separate operations calling on investors to pay for debt recovery schemes.

But ACI have not done this....

Alison Pockett, Magellan’s Founder and President became the ACI European Coordinator.

In Bangkok Neil Robbirt, of Global Investments, who too had put millions of client funds into LM became the South East Asia Co-coordinator.

Alison Pockett

The ACI has done a lot of flag-waving but there is evidence members have advised clients not to listen to the LM Victim Investor Centre.

Neil Robbirt

On accepting the role of ACI chairman Litster wrote to Terpilowski asking for a contact.

Not surprisingly Terpilowski’s reaction was explosive. “I have to face all these people who made so much money, pretending they were duped too and are setting up committees”.

He signed off:

"I desperately want out of this terrible industry and I want the world to know how bad it really is".

BLINDED BY GREED

Presented in conjunction with www.therapeofhongkong.com - Intro by Lindell Lucy

Despite numerous red flags, advisers all over the world recklessly flogged the LM Managed Performance Fund (MPF). The lucrative commissions were irresistible.

For each year that investors were locked in the fund, advisers received 3%. Thus, a three-year term paid 9%, and a five-year term paid 15%. Advisers could elect to have commissions paid upfront if they wanted (so said Peter Drake).

When the MPF was packaged in a portfolio bond, insurers paid an additional 7 to 8% upfront. Advisers could therefore lock in an immediate payout of as much as 23%, it seems.

The money did not come out of thin air. It came out of investors’ savings.

Given that LM was charging a 5% annual management fee, and the fund’s main asset was still just a scratched up piece of dirt, common sense would dictate that LM’s promised returns of up to 9% per year were unrealistic.

Unfortunately, advisers were blinded by their own greed, and investors were never told all of the facts, especially about commissions.

Simon Litster, Magellan, & the ACI

One of the most aggressive promoters of LM’s MPF fund was Magellan, an advisory firm based in Tokyo. When LM collasped, Magellan reportedly had “200 investors with a combined A$30 million locked up in various LM funds”.

One of Magellan’s directors, Simon Litster, subsequently decided to form a committee of advisers to “fight for investors”.

Magellan first teamed up with Financial Partners of Hong Kong and then quickly recruited ten other advisory firms who had been LM supporters. The group called itself the Advisers Committee for Investors, or ACI.

Simon Litster was nominated Chairman. Alison Pockett, Magellan’s founder and president, was designated as ACI’s European coordinator.

As of May 2014, the ACI had recruited 32 advisory firms.

Martyn Terpilowski’s Unwelcome Warnings

From 2003 to 2007, Martyn Terpilowski worked at Magellan. After leaving, he remained in contact with some of his old colleagues, including Simon Litster, Alison Pockett, and Fraser Jamieson.

In January 2009, Martyn sent them an email in which he expressed his first concerns about LM:

“Income is being paid late and things don’t redeem unless you chase, bad signs those and the words property and mortgage don’t fill me with confidence either.”

His former colleagues apparently weren’t as worried. Later that year, Peter Drake told Martyn that Magellan was still a strong supporter of LM.

Martyn wrote to Simon Lister again in December 2009 and forwarded him several emails he’d sent to LM sales manager, Heather McLeash. (Those emails have been published here.)

Martyn warned Litster about major redemption problems, the fact that Drake had lied about those problems, and other facts which suggested that LM was operating like a Ponzi scheme. He invited Litster to call him to discuss the issues further. Litster had zero interest or concern. He replied:

“I will not be calling you to discuss this. If [your firm] choose not to market LM funds then that is their decision…magellan can make it’s own decisions.”

Martyn responded:

"If you chose to believe everything [LM says] against what Doctor Doom says so be it – it really does not affect me.

"Let’s see then mate – but this has been documented and enough people know about what we know. If this goes wrong, there are no excuses for any of us".
I reiterate I am seriously worried."

Doctor Doom was a nickname Martyn had earned from always thinking critically. Whenever he predicted that a suspicious-looking investment scheme was headed for trouble, he often turned out to be correct.

Doctor Doom Is Proved Correct Once Again

Four years after Martyn’s first warnings, LM collapsed. Most observers concluded that the MPF was a fraud. Asset values were grossly overvalued, and redemption payments and income distributions seemed to have been paid with new investors’ money, just like a Ponzi scheme.

Litster sent Martyn an email a few months after LM’s collapse, but it wasn’t to apologize for his earlier behavior. Instead, Litster mentioned that he had been nominated chairman of the ACI, and he wanted to know if Martyn had the contact info of another firm that had been selling LM.

Litster showed no apparent signs of guilt or shame. If anything, he seemed to be slightly proud of his nomination as chairman.

Martyn was so angry he had to wait till the next day to respond:

“for you and Alison…to now come in acting like the white knight is quite ridiculous…I warned you in a friendly way a few years ago and your response was quite damning.”

Litster didn’t reply to Martyn’s email, and they haven’t spoken since.

ACI’s Hypocritical Blame Game

Since its establishment, the ACI has been focusing most of its energy on blaming Peter Drake and the Australian regulators—and deflecting attention away from advisers’ negligence.

In an interview with the South China Morning Post, Simon Litster admitted that Magellan “knew about problems with the Managed Performance Fund in 2009.” However, “Magellan continued to sell [MPF] into 2012 because LM provided reassurances…including audited reports.”

Litster’s statements suggest that Magellan and others continued selling LM because Peter Drake had purchased their trust. They didn’t bother to use common sense or question the information that Drake provided, as this would have required a small amount of effort and resulted in a pay cut.

Martyn Terpilowski summed it up just one week before LM collapsed: “I realise that the old big upfront commissions are still convincing some brokers to invest money with a company with so many problems… the questions would have to be – why else would u choose LM? I mean there are other alternatives”.

In April 2014, the ACI put on a big show, loudly complaining to the Australian Senate, demanding an investigation into the conduct of ASIC, the Australian regulator.

One ACI member hypocritically stated:

“I have been left feeling incredibly frustrated, disappointed and let down by ASIC, who had knowledge of Peter Drake and the LM disaster looming months before it happened in March 2013. Had ASIC stepped in far earlier, large losses to some clients could have been avoided. I find this borderline criminal negligence in itself.”

Certainly ASIC isn’t blameless, but when ACI members masquerade as innocent bystanders, they are only fooling themselves.

“These clowns really are full of sh1t.”

Martyn Terpilowski

From: Martyn Terpilowski

Sent: 18 January 2009 13:14

To: ’Alison Pockett’; ‘Simon Litster’; ‘Fraser Jamieson’

Subject: Property updates

Importance: High

Dear All,

I am not trying to cause trouble here and I realise we are all in the middle of a complete disaster but clients are getting increasingly annoyed on lack of updates on failed property investments. I can help with Coco and Edge as an investor myself so have the info, but they are not getting any updates on Dubai Marina or Ropewalk etc. [A client] is livid and I did mail you a few weeks ago, but he has still heard nothing. I am happy to help but you will not give me the info, just telling me that they should go through you.

understand with your JPY [Japanese Yen] and Property exposure this must be an awful time – it is awful for me and I am not as exposed. The perfect storm as warned by Doctor Doom has occurred worse than he could have predicted.. JPY loans – I do know now what was I thinking when I look at a 10 chart!!! Oh well we learn…

I have concerns for LM also FYI. Income is being paid late and things don’t redeem unless you chase, bad signs those and the words property and mortgage don’t fill me with confidence either. [XXXX] told me Brandeaux would never stop redemptions in November as they are not property related!!!!!! I don’t trust any of them. Any smaller fund house – look at Castlestone and FMG – terrible.

Anyway – not to darken the start to your week – but the updates on property is essential as clients are not hearing and blaming me which is not fair!!!. As I said I am happy to help if you let me.

Good luck.

Martyn

December 2009

Martyn Terpilowski

From: Martyn Terpilowski

Sent: 16 December 2009 09:42

To: ’Simon Litster’

Subject: FW: Hello Heather

Hi Simon

I hope that you are well.. Just a very quick one, but please see mail below I sent to Heather at LM. You do not have to listen to me, but there is something very wrong here for the reasons I have explained below. Putting money into a fund when you cannot get your money out is wrong and money they are getting in is clearly being used to pay redemptions, which is very wrong.

Peter Drake no longer likes me, like Alan Sadd did not for years before everyone else, Kamran Mahmood too.. but Doctor Doom was spot on with nearly everything (JPY loans!!!!)– just wish he had followed his own advice.

This is just FYI anyway as Peter seems to be holding you guys up as great supporters. I do not think that is a good space to be at all.

Have a good Xmas

Martyn

Simon Litster

From: Simon Litster

Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 10:51 AM

To: Martyn Terpilowski

Subject: RE: Hello Heather

Martyn.

I have not forwarded your mail to AP [Alison Pockett] but i will discuss your concerns with FJ [Fraser Jamieson]. How do you know redemptions are being met with new money coming in?

Martyn Terpilowski

From: Martyn Terpilowski

Sent: 16 December 2009 11:08

To: ’Simon Litster’

Subject: RE: Hello Heather

Simon

Give me a call. It is obvious. They have no redemptions right now – indefinitely ([Client 2] has been waiting since May after putting request in, in Jan). Do you think when money comes in, they invest that money, whilst trying to free up other assets to pay redemptions? Obviously not. That is the hallmarks of a Ponze scheme and that has been very obvious for sometime, I have told FJ already, he seems like he wishes not to know. Gteed problems here – I will fwd you the next mail I sent. It really matters little to me – we have not dealt with them for several months now and I am very worried.

Rgds

Martyn

Martyn Terpilowski

From: Martyn Terpilowski

Sent: 16 December 2009 11:11

To: ’Simon Litster’

Subject: FW: Hello Heather

Please see below and yes you read right Peter Drake stated that he was ‘lying for the greater good’ like Richard Nixon – when he did not make it clear on redemptions earlier.

Simon – surely you are not saying to clients – ‘Invest in this, great return (mortgates and property!!!!), but is currently closed for redemptions’ are you? So someone is being mislead. Great sales skills though.

Rgds

Martyn

Simon Litster

From: Simon Litster

Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 11:18 AM

To: Martyn Terpilowski

Subject: RE: Hello Heather

Martyn.

I am reading this from home as I am off today for my son’s birthday party. I will not be calling you to discuss this. If [your firm] choose not to market LM funds then that is their decision. Happy to listen to logic and facts and magellan can make it’s own decisions. Don’t however comments like “Invest in this, great return (mortgates and property!!!!), but is currently closed for redemptions’ are you? So someone is being mislead. Great sales skills though” does not endear you to me or us to be honest. If you continue to make such sweeping statements then please keep your opinions to yourself.

Simon

Martyn Terpilowski

From: Martyn Terpilowski

Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 12:07 PM

To: ’Simon Litster’

Subject: RE: Hello Heather

Ok Simon.

I have given my logic and the facts, which are in fact very clear. I was not trying to endear myself to you or Magellan – I was trying to help you all. I recently heard from a customer that Magellan are still promoting LM strongly and they were pretty amazed as they were aware of redemption suspensions. I actually cared. None of my statements are sweeping at all – they are all based on facts and clear information. It is ethically incorrect to take money into a fund, where redemptions are suspended. Fact. I am sure that a few years ago, you would have been happy to say that about other companies. It is also very clear that the new money coming in, is being used for redemptions. Again, not sweeping, but obvious. It is also clear that surely this is not being made clear to clients. Again not sweeping, but obvious.

I do not understand how this can be seen any other way. After all the problems we have all had with funds closing and [delayed redemption] shares etc, I would have thought we would all be adopting an initial view of caution on things like this. After all LM have lied all ready about redemptions and the CEO has quoted Richard Nixon of all people (again Fact), so if you chose to believe everything they say against what Doctor Doom says so be it – it really does not affect me.

Let’s see then mate – but this has been documented and enough people know about what we know. If this goes wrong, there are no excuses for any of us.

I reiterate I am seriously worried.

Have a great Xmas.

Cheers

Martyn

October 2011

Martyn Terpilowski

From: Martyn Terpilowski

Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2011 11:54 AM

To: ’Simon Litster’

Subject: and between me and you

Where do u think Porton is going mate? You are probably aware there is lots of anger brewing about that now also as FJ has sold the back out of it. We are all aware of the insane commissions they were paying and I am very surprised that did get alarm bells ringing… This has gone on for years and if these technologies were so good they would have been sold mate and we all know that and investors would have received some money back. We now have the farcical legal case when 3M are saying Acolyte did not work (why would they say that if not true?) and Harvey Boulter trying to blackmail them. As this appears to be the only technology they have ever sold, I do not think it bodes well…. I think FJ may really regret his boast to me at the [Azabujuban] festival last year that he had still done $1m already….. yes at 15% commission…(he also said I would sell nothing with my attitude)… I guess that was desperation because of all the other business going wrong, but there is definitely trouble brewing here also and this will be worse..

I know u get p1ssed when I say things like this like when I said about LM last yr, but I was trying to help as people like [my client] were going nuts that it was being sold when his money was locked in (and still is)…Now everyone is talking about [Porton Capital]….. I am not being Doctor Doom….

Have a great weekend.

Martyn

June 2013

Simon Litster

From: Simon Litster

Sent: 27 June 2013 21:05

To: Martyn Terpilowski

Subject: LM and ACI

Martyn.

Who do I contact at Citibridge about joining the ACI (Advisers Committee for Investors)? You may have heard we are deeply involved and I was nominated Chairman. I am co-ordinating brokers in Japan.

Thanks.

Simon

Simon Litster

Senior Partner

MAGELLAN

The Financial Planning Company

Website: www.magellanfp.com

Martyn Terpilowski

From: “Martyn Terpilowski”

Date: 28 June, 2013 10:51:16 am GMT+8

To: Simon Litster

Subject: LM

Simon

Sorry I could not control my anger last night but could not actually believe what I was reading. I have kept quiet on this with you guys so far as did not want to waste my energy, but for you and Alison (or [Financial Partners] in HK for that matter) to now come in acting like the white knight is quite ridiculous.

For 3 years I have been battling with LM for my clients money back, all that time brokers have been lining their pockets selling this due to the insane commission levels. I warned you in a friendly way a few years ago and your response was quite damning. I wrote to the regulator and all bond providers telling of my concerns and everyone ignored me.

Lets be clear, this was a huge fraud where LM teamed up with brokers and it was facilitated by the life companies who continued to accept this despite numerous warnings.

The fund had far less interest from brokers when it paid 3 [percent] and could not be put in a bond. The fund at that stage was far more stable also.

During this time despite major financial problems, I stuck to my principals and never sold it, whilst desperately trying to get clients money out. It made no sense and the only reason ppl were placing money there was for commissions which was 16pc in a bond [9% LM + 7% bond], so how was the client ever going to win?

During this time I met a very arrogant Fraser telling me how well he doing.. Well anyone could do well selling this and Porton. I really hope it is finally catching up with him.

It is very depressing, but the offshore industry is disgusting and the few people I used to respect, have been involved with this. I don’t believe I am the only person who knew this was going to happen, but am one of the few who stuck to their principals.

I actually think this was theft and brokers should be brought to account also. I have sent many emails to KordaMentha, documenting my long term concerns and emails proving that I had told the regulator, the life offices and some brokers of my concerns.

Everyone just carried on. Now I have to face all these people who made so much money, pretending they were duped too and are setting up committees. This even includes ex LM employees. It is just unbelievable. Sadly that group will be far bigger than my group, due to the nature of this industry. I am mortified for [my clients], but they know I have been fighting for them a long time, since my concerns started.

The people I talk to who bought this from Fraser should also be aware, that he was warned. The people who sold this in the last few years since commission levels were increased, should be brought to account and not be able to act as if they are shocked and there to help. I know I am Doctor Doom.. Just waiting for Porton.

I desperately want out of this terrible industry and I want the world to know how bad it really is.

Rgds

Martyn

The Fraser Jamieson Confrontation

From: Martyn Terpilowski

Sent: 02 November 2009 15:43

To: Fraser Jamieson

Subject: LM MPF

U still doing more of this??

Something wrong [in my opinion]… just had a meeting with Peter Drake, he does not like a question and admits basically deceiving us about redemptions on MPF – he told me in the summer – no issues with redemptions on MPF, but we have now discovered there have been issues since March at least…. Not good…

They still take money in also which is not good.. probably just to pay redemptions and there is a name for that.

Best regards

Martyn

Fraser Jamieson

From: Fraser Jamieson

Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 3:46 PM

To: Martyn Terpilowski

Subject: RE: LM MPF

Been issues since March as you say…no need to deceive us as we had clients who were looking to redeem since March so we have known the liquidity issues all along

Martyn Terpilowski

From: Martyn Terpilowski

Sent: 02 November 2009 15:53

To: ’Fraser Jamieson’

Subject: RE: LM MPF

U still buying this????

December 2011

Martyn Terpilowski

From: Martyn Terpilowski

Sent: 30 December 2011 15:49

To: Fraser Jamieson

Subject: LM….

Is D-O-D-G-E… if u are still doing that as well as Porton, no wonder u want to move…

I am trying desperately to get my clients money out of there.. Peter Drake is a megalomaniac…

U heard it here first…. Doctor Doom.

Happy New Year.

Fraser Jamieson

From: Fraser Jamieson

Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 4:43 PM

To: Martyn Terpilowski

Subject: RE: LM….

Fuck off and spread your doom elsewhere MT….

Martyn Terpilowski

From: Martyn Terpilowski

Sent: 30 December 2011 16:59

To: Fraser Jamieson

Subject: RE: LM….

I think we both know it is not doom…and have known for a long time… positivity can be very dangerous in the wrong hands and that has been proven time and time again..

I wonder what the powers that be [i.e., Magellan's management] would have thought if [a very infamous company] had been flogging this kind of thing? Especially after everything else?

[Due diligence] requirements have changed somewhat the worse things have become. How things have changed eh….

Have a good one…

Fraser Jamieson

From: Fraser Jamieson

Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 5:00 PM

To: Martyn Terpilowski

Subject: RE: LM….

Mate I said fuck off and meant it

Martyn Terpilowski

From: Martyn Terpilowski

Sent: 30 December 2011 17:04

To: Fraser Jamieson

Subject: RE: LM….

I don’t think threatening me is a good idea mate…. Have a good New Year.

Fraser Jamieson

From: Fraser Jamieson

Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 5:07 PM

To: Martyn Terpilowski

Subject: RE: LM….

?????

It’s not a threat MT…I’m just telling you to fuck off and don’t contact me

Martyn Terpilowski

From: Martyn Terpilowski

Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 5:10 PM

To: ’Fraser Jamieson’

Subject: RE: LM….

Ok – no problem.. u are very touchy today.

Have a good one.

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From the Buffalo Bar to the Lions Club - A tale of animal fury and unrequited love

September 5, 2014, 9:50 pm

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SHE WAS ONLY A FRIEND TO THIS FAKE FOREIGN LAWYER - SO WHY IS SHE GIVING OUT WEDDING PICTURES?

(Flying Sporran's Weekend Diary)

Just friends

So here today we present one of the strangest cases in Thai legal history.

A former waitress at the ‘Buffalo Bar’ in Pattaya is the latest squeeze, and good luck to them, of Drew Noyes, the former publisher of the now defunct Pattaya Times.

The newspaper, and I use that word loosely, bombed, and not entirely because an American newspaper once described Noyes as a man of 'myriad lies' of that the Morning Star in North Carolina quoted a San Francisco lawyer Goteiner as saying 'he doesn't know the difference between what's true and what's false."

The Pattaya Times was used to promote his legal, visa, and all in services for foreigners. But he could not sell the whoppers the paper published - like - he had discovered the cure for AIDS and could solve the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Anyway Nam; her real name is #WarichayaPharawech, is now suing me for libel. I don't know her and have never met her. She is not an avid reader of this site but Noyes is.

Nam - centre - at the Buffalo bar

The libel is apparently because I suggested that she was a little more than a friend to Noyes (I can sort of understand why somebody else might be upset at this claim, but I did not think she had no reason to be) and she has stated that I suggested that she was doing more than waiting at tables at the Buffalo bar, which I was, of course, especially cautious not to do.

Indeed while you can buy girls out of this bar for a fee - the fee is not for sex, because that would be against the law.

These are long term rules and of course at this site we acknowledge that. Nevertheless the bar is sold on the promise of 'sexy girls'.

But the fact is that this young lady is a lot more to Drew Noyes than just ‘a friend'. She was a 'nanny' to his four children by his first Thai wife Nittaya Chaisit.

She has travelled with Noyes to the United States without the person, Wanrapa Boonsu, whom he described in court as ‘his wife’ (They have three children together and are not legally married).

But the interest here is not in their private life, but #DrewNoyes' complicated list of companies and nominees and the continual changing of shareholders and directors.

Boonsu has fully recovered and now they turn up to few events together and tend to leave seperately, and, as I understand it, Boonsu has acquired a Thai style settlement from Drew.

Nam, a country girl, has also risen to the 'dizzy heights' of being Secretary of the mainly Indian, Lions Club of Bangkok Silom 310D where Drew is President..although that is perhaps not as meteoric as it sounds.

The club advertises the fact that 'We Speak English'. Unless Nam has had a sudden makeover - she can't read English. But I guess she could have learned. But Drew is President, so who needs qualifications.

Wanrapa and Noyes

#DrewNoyes posed with Wanrapa for their pseudo wedding pictures playing Adam and Eve with Noyes biting the bullet.

Naam had her own Facebook page on which were posted seemingly romantic pictures with Noyes, taken while he was on bail for the attempted extortion of the Thonglor clinic in Pattaya. But of course they are only friends.

It seems that someone else has access to her Facebook page because the Facebook page was used to attack Kanokrat Booth, who has been assisting me with my cases.

But Nam has to be accountable for other people's actions. Not all is fair in love and war. Whoever this person is it could not be the gallant Drew - because he of course denied everything and had he been the one, the 'most reassuring credible American businessman' ever to have graced Thailand would have gone to her rescue rescue. Right?

So now under her real name Parawech this country girl has had to pay 100,000 baht bail on counter libel and criminal libel charges for being sued by someone she does not know and until now probably had no interest in at all.

The problem of course is that photos on her Facebook show that she was a lot more then friend to Mr. Noyes, a man who was first exposed for his ‘myriad lies’ in the Morning Star in North Carolina nearly 20 years ago under the headline ‘Trouble Follows Developer’.

And even more curiously why would she now suddenly hand out pictures of her seemingly getting married to this fake friend of royalty and high society? Certainly she must be thinking 'Why me?'

Does she feel rejected? Could it be she wants to force his hand? After all, despite his nine or so children scattered around Thailand and the United States, he is technically free. And apart from when he opens his mouth, the fact that he already has his nine children, and has had to use a cushion to give evidence, he would make excellent marriage material for a country girl.

Its all as bizarre as this club which he promotes which he is currently looking for a chef.

As you can see by the, er, tasteful layout this which is called 'The Athena Gentle's Men Club (sic) does he mean Gentile Men's Club) this is not your typical 'Gentleman's Club'. Its full of Greek statues and I am told has 19 rooms which can be accessed by a separate entrance. I can't think why it should be so.

But I am told if one for instance met a young lad in the club and took her straight upstairs, that might be contravening some sort of law. Similarly foreigners do not buy girls out of the 'Buffalo Bar' for sex - but merely to get to know them better.
'

The 'Athena' is nothing like the Gentleman's Clubs of Mayfair in London. You can barely see to read the copy of your the 'Times'. Mayfair Clubs have rooms too but you do not have to go in by another entrance. And if you find a Grecian statute in one it will be the genuine article and probably filched and brought back to the UK by some archeologist - not a plastic mock up.

Above - a not very exciting dancer at the Buffalo Bar

But Miss Parawech resurfaced this week on a Drew Noyes Facebook site, something I am sure she does not know about either, together with an Indian holistic healer Dr. Kamaljit Singh.

ANDREW DRUMMOND WANTED CLAIMS DREW NOYES

Needless to say I am not wanted nor have I ever been sentenced to jail. But the obsessive Drew Noyes could not give up.

He texted me: 'They will catch you at Pattaya Court tomorrow Great court photo opp! Miss that one. Two arrest warrants from two courts. Now that is real NEWS. No bail. Press conference. FCCT members present (I guess that discludes Noyes) Nowhere to hide. Fake lawyer girlfriend crying...So get drunk while you can."

Then later - 'You are wanted! ' he screamed in an sms.

I happened to be in Colonel Supatee's office in Pattaya Police station when the message came through. There is no arrest warrant of course. Not two - not one. And of course the only fake lawyer in this story is Drew Noyes... Must be the heat.

#WarichayaPharawech #DrewNoyes #KamiljitSingh

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FAKE AMERICAN LAWYER AND WIFE PAY OUT IN SECRET COURT DEAL

September 6, 2014, 9:57 pm

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WHEN CHEATED CLIENT COMPLAINED ABOUT PATTAYA 'LAWYER' HE BECAME VICTIM OF VICIOUS INTERNET CAMPAIGN

American Drew Noyes, the former publisher of the now defunct Pattaya Times has paid an undisclosed sum to a Dutch film producer, who claimed he lost 2.5 million baht, after going to Noyes’ real business a so-called law firm to get back his house from his girlfriend.

The cash was paid by to Theo van der Schaaf and Noyes insisted that a secrecy deal was written into the agreement.

After van der schaaf took legal action and his complaints were revealed on this site Noyes began a hate campaign on the internet and in his now defunct Pattaya Times newspaper with which he used to threaten his enemies.

Theo van der schaff had produced a children’s television cartoon series on a rabbit called ‘Miffy’

In the Pattaya Times he described van der schaaf as the owner of a sex movie theatre in Amsterdam – and published a story alleging he had been beaten up by a mamasan in Hua Hin.

Miffy

Noyes was also behind a false theo van der schaff Google+ site which says theo owns ‘miff films’ portrays the Dutchman as a man who pays for prostitutes.

This site links to another phoney google site andrew-drummond-watch.blogpot which is one of many set up by Noyes dedicated to discrediting the author of this site. So far he has not achieved his goal.

Noyes had contracted Noyes’ PAPPA Co Ltd (now replaced by One Stop Service Centre) his 'cash cow' in Thepprasit Rd, Pattaya, and paid over 400,000 baht to the company to arrange an amicable settlement with his Thai girlfriend.

Nasty attack on van der schaaf in the Pattaya Times

He also, he said at the time, handed over 2.5 million baht to offer to his Thai girlfriend. But this money was never offered and simply disappeared.

"If I wanted gangsters I would have hired gangsters with credibility"

Fake Google+ site in Theo's name

Apparently a promised diplomatic meeting between Pappa Law and Theo's girlfriend was anything but diplomatic and she called police on Noyes' representatives.

Theo wrote at the time: "If I wanted gangsters. I would have hired gangsters with credibility'.

A friend of Theo said that Theo could not take calls on the matter due to the agreement. “However he is very happy with the settlement. He has a new girlfriend and a new life and hopefully won't be talking to Noyes again.”

The friend indicated however that Theo did not get the full amount of his claim but had accepted a reduced figure rather than continue a long an expensive legal battle.

Noyes was on bail for the extortion of the Thonglor Clinic, as he still is, when Theo van der schaaf hired PAPPA Co Ltd. Theo sent the 2.5 million, he said, to Noyes' common-law wife Wanrapa Boonsu.

But his lawyers decided to take only civil action against Pappa Co, Drew Noyes, and Wanrapa Boonsu at the Pattaya Provincial Court.

Theo

PAPPA Law has never declared the 2.5 million baht or any amount of money for that matter to the Thai tax authorities.

Footnote: Noyes has multiple sites up on the net with the names Pappa, Pattaya Lawyers, One Stop Service Centre, One Stop Legal Service centre all pointing clients to his services for foreigners. Look before you leap.

READ THE ORIGINAL STORY HERE

PATTAYA SCAMMERS MIFFY PRODUCER SUES DREW NOYES

#DrewNoyes #WanrapaBoonsu #PappaLaw

WHAT ONE STOP SERVICE CENTER OFFERS

From the current Onestopsrvicesthailand website

Getting around the gobbledygook

1. Pappa Co. Ltd was never registered as a law office - but an accountancy office. Noyes has even had trouble finding lawyers to represent himself. All the old hands have left.
2. Don't be confused with these mergers. This is not a multi-faceted corporation it is a shop house. Forget about divisions. Any member of staff will sell you, er, well anything.
3.Pharawech Insurance brokerage is new. But for Parawech see the last story
4. Oh there's another division - auditors?
5. Noyes has repeatedly said in court that he has had nothing to do with the Pattaya Times for two years...social media? But he can put up nasty internet sites although the content is unconvinging.

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THAILAND’S INTERNET WARRIORS – REVIEWED

September 8, 2014, 2:18 am

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YOU'RE ALL #@$%*&^$#!!!!s

Visitors to Thailand who need legal help might do well to avoid companies called Alba Laws, One-Stop-Services, and PAPPA Co Ltd.

Never mind that the structures of these companies are a bit dodgy, if you get involved in a dispute with their bosses, Brian Goudie aka Goldie, Drew Walter Noyes, and their ‘gopher’ David Hanks, you might get accused of being anything from being a murderer to a paedophile on the internet.

So there is something rather droll about recent attempts by Hanks and Goudie to sue Google claiming the ‘right to be forgotten’.

Goudie's case was dismissed by Bangkok Criminal Court and if Google execs ever got to hear about it they would be laughing their socks off. Now they are trying to sue in Koh Samui using Hanks name. Hanks a former brothel owner in Melbourne is on bail at the moment for racketeering in Pattaya - lending money to Russians at 60 per cent per month.

Here follow a few samples of the accusations, internet blogs, put up by these guests of Thailand and how nasty they get.

WANTED FOR MURDER!

Scott Palinkas was a friend of Drew Noyes, or so he thought, who paid one million baht for shares in the Pattaya Times.

For that he got a Drew Noyes arranged work permit, a Pattaya Times press card and a Pattaya Times jacket.

When he realised that the newspaper was a sham – and was not going to national, he complained. Drew Noyes went on the next saying he was wanted for murder in the Mexico. Palinkas, a native American, now has a retirement visa. He is not wanted for murder in Mexico.

'CONVICTED DRUGGIE'

Andre Machielsen, was also a friend of Noyes at the Pattaya City Expats Club until he found out the truth. He had initially supported Noyes.

As a result of changing sides Noyes started publishing stories saying Machielsen, a seasonal father Christmas, was a convicted druggie. There were no truth in the allegations.

'GANGSTER'

When he felt out with rival newspaper owner Niels Colov of the Pattaya People Noyes went public saying Colov was a wife beater and former Copenhagen gangster.

These allegations have now been removed and Noyes made an out of court settlement with Colov on another matter. They are now allies.

The gangster allegations were however true. Colov the leader of the Pattaya Police Volunteers was in his younger days jailed for pimping and a few other things when he ran with the crowd in Vesterbro, a former red light district in Copenhagen.. He is now rehabilitated of course.

DRUGGIE 2

Ivan Schiffer was a former ‘journalist’ on the Pattaya Times. When he warned an American businessman not to go into business with Noyes, or invest any cash with him, Noyes went ballistic.

In his own newspaper the Pattaya Times across half a page he exposed his former reporter as a man with drugs convictions who was running an illicit oil therapy business.

Schiffer was reported to Immigration for overstay and deported to Brazil. He is now back running his legitimate oil therapy business in Thailand.

CORRUPT JOURNALIST 1

Scott Gold, wrote the original expose of Drew Noyes for the Wilmington Morning Star, which exposed Noyes as a man of myriad lies pursued by lawyers, who was involved in dodgy share and property deals, and who had demanded oral sex from a female employee or he would cut her hours. After first of all claiming the newspaper article was an April Fool’s Day joke (It was published on April 1 1995) Noyes changed tack claiming Scott had been fired for corrupt practices. Scott was of course not fired and is now a senior writer on the Los Angeles Times. Noyes did not sue.

'MENTAL PATIENT WANTED BY POLICE'

When Drew Noyes fell out with Thor Halland, another former member of the Pattaya City Expats Club he put up a story claiming that Halland was a former psychiatric patient who was wanted by police. ‘Wanted by police’ is a recurring theme of Drew Noyes.

'PORNO MAN'

When Theo van der schaaf took a civil case against this Dutchman, one of the producers of a cartton rabbit television series called 'Miffy' - Drew Noyes went on the net and said he was the owner of a sex movie theatre in Amsterdam.

'CORRUPT, CONVICTED AND JAILED JOURNALIST'

Andrew Drummond, is the author of this site. Drew Noyes reserves special attention for this journalist, who according to various blogs is ‘a convicted criminal’, has invented a journalism award, used to tap phones for the News of the World, is an alcoholic, etc. etc.

This is of course because Noyes activities are spotlighted here.

Apparently during Drummond's sentencing his Thai colleague burst into tears and he was led off to be fingerprinted, cuffed and locked up.

Drummond is unaware of all this.

He also falsely claimed Drummond takes cash for for stories from people other than newspapers or media outlets.

There are numerous anonymous blogs and google pages put up in the name of Andrew Drummond on the net. Brian Goudie also attacks using anonymous blogspot sites such as casewatchasia, andrew-drummond-watch etc and would you believe paedophilewatch.

Ironically Goudie is actually an ex-con having been sentenced to six years in Australia for stealing some A$400,000 from a West Australia mining company

'ASSASSIN'

Officer Trumbower on the case!

Alastair Cooper works in an oil field somewhere off Vietnam. He is a supporter of Andrew Drummond and has contributed posts critical of Brian Goudie, David Hanks and Drew Noyes.

As a result posts were put on the internet on casewatchasia.com and on Facebook saying that Cooper was a drugs dealer and being investigated for plotting to kill Hilary Clinton.

The story was farcically accompanied by a picture of Hanks’ brother in law, officer Jason Trumbower, a University policeman in Florida with Bill Clinton.

'CHILD MOLESTER'

Brian Goudie has also led a campaign against his former clients Greg Miller and Ian Tracey. Both were jailed in Pattaya on charges of child sexual abuse. Both trials have been recorded as mistrials and are the circumstances of their arrest and identification are now the subject of investigation.

'HARLOT!

Goudie however reserves special hate for Nang his former managing director at Jimmy International which he secured from Ulster drugs trafficker Jimmy Halliday on his death bed. Pornographic Video which she says was taken on his mobile phone has been put up on the internet. And he has gone on the net to claim she is a prostitute. Now she is no longer his his MD he is suing he for theft, both in Pattaya, he says, and Koh Samui.

Next?

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BRIT GREEN ENERGY MAN SAYS HE WAS FRAMED

September 10, 2014, 12:38 am

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'IT'S ALL CORRUPTION' SAY BANGED UP BRIT DIRECTOR.

But he ran off with millions - say victims

From Prey Sar Prison Briton Greg Fryett writes today to complain against Cambodian justice.

Pic: Ke Kim Yan and Hun Sen

He has been banged up there for over a year after being arrested in connection with a Cambodian land deal. And the charges have been piling up.

Apparently he was sitting in a café in Phnom Penh last year talking to a judge, when police carrying an arrest warrant issued by another judge dragged him off.

Fryett

Fryett is the boss of Sustainable Agro Energy.

He had allegedly bought land from the wife of Ke Kim Yan, the country’s former military Commander in Chief, but the whole deal was corrupt – not from the Cambodian side you understand. It was allegedly corrupt on Fryett’s side.

Fryett from Torquay has been banged up for the best part of a year and while one can commiserate with anyone unfortunate enough to be in a Cambodian jail it appears there are many in England who really do not care. Fryett bought the land in Cambodia to begin a jatropha plantation from which he could extract bio-fuel.

jatropha

And, just like Roscoe Maloney at Touchwood who bought land there to plant agar wood, a lot of people have been chasing Fryett for the return of their life savings.

Police have already arrested several alleged co-conspirators – and it looks like Substainable Aggro Energy may have fleeced people for as much as £52million.

Fryett’s says he returned to Cambodia after being given immunity from prosecution but all his adversaries are corrupt. Apparently he was not allowed to join the same club.

If and when he gets out the Serious Fraud Office who have been responsible for the arrest of several of his partners in Britain, will want to talk to him. Here follows his letter.

LINK: More arrests in biofuel scandal

Pray Sar

"It is with great concern that I must bring the following information to your attention.
In January 2013, two American nationals were arrested and held under the instruction of Judge Ang Mealtey further to the instructions of Prosecutor Pham Vanroth at the Bantay Meachey Court of First Instance in Cambodia. In March 2013, the chairman and major shareholder, Gregg Thomas Fryett was also arrested and detained at Prey Sar prison despite assurances of safe conduct. They remain in prison to this day.

The case alleged was based on a complaint from Van Sophana, the Forestry Department Chief covering North Tonle Sap area. The Chief has written a complaint which is not in his jurisdictional area and without the knowledge or authority of his superiors. Chief Van claimed that AMC Ltd and IGE had illegally cleared land and used forged documents. There was no formal process for the complaint including authority from MAFF or the Governor or indeed the jurisdictional Forestry Department Office of Bantay Meachay which renders the complaint unauthorised.

- The land has been cleared prior to 2006 and was the responsibility of AMC and YLP who both belong to the sellers.

- The sellers are powerful people in Cambodia (Deputy Prime Minister Kee Kim Yan) and have not been called to court to answer questions or be held in pre trial detention the same as the 'buyers' despite being named in court papers as a defendant.

- there are no original documents to support any forgery allegations and the paperwork was provided by the sellers as evidenced by the judge in his closing statement.

There is also; an incomplete investigation with the real land owners and sellers not being called to give evidence with regard to the land they have rights to and which they are selling to Mr Fryett and his companies. There is also judicial obstruction, evidence tampering, false translations, numerous procedural issues and a clear intent to convict the defendants' regardless of process or evidence as detailed within the legal opinion and closing statement analysis below".

Governor's Report

"In July 2012, the Provincial Governor Ung Ouerm wrote to the Prime Minister Hun Sen alleging that the INVESTIGATING JUDGE, FORESTRY DEPARTMENT CHIEF, PROSECUTOR AND SPECIAL ADVISOR TO THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER YIM CHHAY LY have all colluded in corrupt actions to steal the agricultural equipment (value approx $850,000) and block the transfer of the land to the buyers (who hold enforceable contracts) and who now languish in jail while the sellers do not even answer questions for the court.

The Prime Minister instructed the ACU to implement the Governor's instructions which was to remove all the officials from office and begin legal proceedings against them. The ACU (Anti Corruption Unit) did not act as instructed as they have a long and established relationship with the investigating judge Ang Mealtey.

The prosecution have put in place not one but four cases against the defendants to try and manufacture a conviction without evidence, justification or due process. They are doing so for their own personal benefit and for the powerful people behind them.

The point of the criminal case is to block the clear civil case claim that the defendants have over the land and agricultural equipment worth millions of dollars. The judge is therefore acting for and on behalf of the land seller beyond his powers and jurisdiction in a transparent and evidenced corrupt act as described in the Governor's report to the Prime Minister in July 2012.

All three defendants have been held in detention since their incarceration having had bail refused on several occasions with the last joint application being July 27th 2014 and for Mr Ourm and Mr Souem separately on the 4th of September 2014.

There have been some 18 defence filings rejecting the allegations, asking for the judge to be disqualified as he is of course heavily conflicted thanks to the governor's report to the Prime Minister and asking for a complete and transparent investigation which will bring all the facts of the case to the court.

This will expose the corruption completely of the prosecution and also the land seller who have a reputation for incomplete land transactions and violence and intimidation against anyone who dares to challenge them. The seller is Deputy Prime Minister Kee Kim Yan, the ex-head of the Military and now head of the Drug Enforcement Agency.

His wife, Madam Mao Malay is party to the contracts through two companies, AMC and YLP Ltd, the later a partner with Indonesian Conglomerate Ciputra involved in the $750m Grand Phnom Penh Golf Club development. Every action and demand for the sellers to be treated in the same way as the defendants have been blocked by the judge and prosecutor.

In all it is very clear that;

1. the judge and entire prosecution team have acted outrageously and abusively for their own benefit upon the instructions of the land owner, a senior government official.
2. That the arrest and detention of the defendants is nothing short of kidnap and extortion.
3. The continued detention is very much in contravention of the laws and regulations of Cambodia as well as international conventions for law and human rights.

4. That there has been absolutely no due process of the Court procedures or subsequent accountability for this blatant corruption to the Appeal or Supreme Courts at this time by the Municipal Court and its president.

I apologise for the direct plagiarising of the Lawyer Rights Watch (Canada) letter dated September 2nd 2014 about detention of parties involved with another land dispute below with the original document available here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3idykriduxnob55/LorPeangVillageCambodia.3.Sept_.14.pdf?dl=0 "

Directly because of its authors LRWC, this letter and case further adds creditability to the points raised about the arguably unlawful detention and continual detention of the people in this case.

The international legal obligations of Cambodia concerning pre-trial release and fair trial rights are well documented. All arrested persons are entitled to the presumption of innocence and to release pending trial in accordance with provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) to which Cambodia is a party.

The right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty is recognized by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Article 11. (1) and guaranteed by the ICCPR (Article 14.(2)). Freedom from arbitrary detention and the right to pre-trial release is recognized by Articles 3 and 9 of the UDHR and guaranteed by Article 14. (2) of the ICCPR.

These provisions of the UDHR and the ICCPR prohibit pre-trial detention except when detention is both necessary and the only means to protect public safety, ensure attendance in court and/or prevent interference with evidence. Cambodia’s Constitution specifically guarantees recognition and respect for the UDHR and the ICCPR, and states in Article 38 that accused persons “shall be considered innocent until the court has judged finally on the case.” Cambodia’s Code of Criminal Procedure. Article 203, confirms these principles and must be read in conformity with the UDHR and the ICCPR.

The lawyers representing the defendants are aware of no allegations or evidence provided to the court of any lawful reason for continued detention of those arrested on 17th January 2013 or 23rd March 2013, and they should have been released immediately. Indeed the unauthorised nature of all the allegations and cases coupled with the clear corruption identified by the Provincial Governor AGAINST the investigating Judge alone is more than enough grounds to demonstrate that this is not justifiable use of Judicial authority and resources or for that matter of Government office authority. This in turn and by reasonable extension suggests that the defendants have been kidnapped for ransom (extortion).

These defendants (and all land rights activists and other human rights defenders) are entitled to conduct peaceful business (human rights advocacy) and to be protected from all forms of retaliation including arbitrary arrest and detention, malicious prosecution and judicial harassment. The Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, adopted 9 December 1998 by consensus of the member States of the United Nations General Assembly, states that:

“everyone has the right, individually or in association with others, to promote the protection and realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms at the national and international levels” (Article 12.1);

“everyone has the right, individually and in association with others, to participate in peaceful activities against violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms” (Article 1);

“the State shall take all necessary measures to ensure the protection by the competent authorities of everyone, individually and in association with others, against any violence, threats, retaliation, de facto or de jure adverse discrimination, pressure or any other arbitrary action as a consequence of his or her legitimate exercise of the rights referred to in the present Declaration.” (Article 12.2)

The prosecution of these defendants and their commercial rights as with the five land rights activists mentioned within the LRWC letter contravenes domestic and international law obligations and constitutes a misuse of criminal law to prohibit and punish lawful recovery of contracted and paid for assets, limit the subsequent protest and actions to recover said assets through civil action and has provided commercial actors with unlawful advantages.

The LRWC letter demonstrates that the courts are more than comfortable being used as a tool of business and corruption for powerful people. This example and the LRWC demonstrate this. There exist three more current cases known to the author where the courts act not as directed by the constitution or Code of Criminal Procedures but on behalf of powerful parties through manipulation of the laws and the power of their position in office.

The full analysis of the case is within the legal opinion which covers 200 pages of primary analysis and evidence. It was compiled by H.E. Oknha David Chanaiwa Esq. JD. He is a USA trained attorney who has a PHD in law, has advised the USA senior courts as well as being appointed as advisor to the Cambodian Senate.

You can download the Legal Opinion from the following link
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3rlnd67gldv3pyl/AABQ3Tf7EelIHH6TQ_cXP9fva?dl=0

The Governor Report to the Prime Minister can be recovered below:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3rlnd67gldv3pyl/AABQ3Tf7EelIHH6TQ_cXP9fva?dl=0

There are several other filings which demonstrate the procedural irregularities as well as corruption. They can be found at the link below:

Defence filings:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/vbgw13zbxk366ox/AABULN9hXHMreSzPCKOMp2jMa?dl=0
(Attention is drawn to 06, 08, 09 &10 particularly)

Prosecution Filings

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2o4jfnxtpioo09z/AADsLdXnLTzWnCCid3bu0ZBLa?dl=0
The defendants' and defence attorneys have all faced intimidation and direct threats as well as real and ongoing hardship.

This letter serves to make a matter of record the facts in the case and calls upon the Embassies of the UK and USA to make timely and determined inquires as to:

1. Why there has been no clear due process and fair trail for the defendants conforming to the Cambodian Constitution, the Code of Criminal Procedures and international conventions to which Cambodia is a party?

2. Why these foreign nationals have been arrested and detained for over 17 months without trial, beyond the lawful scope of any recognised detention legislation and upon the instructions of individuals from the senior judiciary and government offices who are themselves accused of corruption by a Senior Government Official and therefore heavily conflicted?

3. Why has the Appeal Court, which has had sight of all the primary evidence of corruption and misconduct through the March 6th 2014 'Annul, Refuse and Disqualify' Filing failed to make any discernable changes to the case as is their primary role and judiciail process responsibility?

4. Why the Anti-Corruption Unit has not carried out the instructions of the Prime Minister further to the Governor's report which included the removal from office of the investigating judge, the Forestry Department Chief and the prosecutor? The report also called for legal action against the fourth corrupt government official.

5. Why the clear investment interests of numerous UK and international investors have not been protected under Cambodian laws?

6. To ascertain exactly the roles played by the UK SFO and court appointed receiver in the unlawful dissemination of misleading information leading to the false money laundering charges and likely significant contribution to the arrest of Mr Fryett and continued detention of Messers Ourm and Soeum?

7. Why the receiver has not taken the primary position of recovery of creditors assets in Cambodia for 2.5 years which would in turn remove all the criminal allegations as the evidence would be forced into the open court about the real status of the land and paperwork?

We acknowledge that the UK FCO have informed us that they have written to the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs with regard to ascertaining answers as to the status of the defendants. We believe the USA embassy has also made enquiries. This demonstrates a level of concern already that the embassies have with the process of these cases.

We would ask that further and more conserted approaches are made by both embassies, particularly in light of the evidence within the legal opinion, as to the genuine legal and political position with regard to arrest and detention of these individuals as quickly as practicable. Physical and mental torture through imprisonment as well as increasing intimidation of the lawyers and defendants is escalating.

Thank you in advance for your attention to this matter.

Sincerely Yours

Gregg Fryett
Chairman of Sustainable Growth Group.

#GregFryett #SustaunableAgroEnergy #KeKimYan

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Pattaya Times Publisher Seeks Truth At Google

September 12, 2014, 9:43 pm

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'SAVE ME FROM THESE MENTAL MISFITS!'

Fake lawyer and conman Drew Walter Noyes has taken another break from his extortion trial in Pattaya and again has returned to the United States with three children.

Now he is Googling and Tweeting from Irvine, California that his old school friends at Google are giving him the addresses of his enemies who have posted nasty things about him on the net.

However most people are taking this with a large dose of salts. Irvine is of course where he used to live and while there is a Google office there, if he really wants to talk to Google executives he should go to their headquarters at Mountain View in the same state.

His friends convicted thief Brian Goudie aka Goldie and David Hanks, both currently on criminal charges in the Pattaya Courts, have already tried to take an action against Google through the Thai courts and failed.

Relying on ‘school friends’ in Google is also rather far fetched. One old school friend has already sent a ‘Round Robin’ to former pupils of Jefferson High in Tennessee where he spent his last formative days – and they are well aware of his activities.

They want him back for a former pupils re-union. He has presumably also told Google that his enemies are all mental misfits.

Google also has very strict rules about handing out personal information and if they ‘Googled’ Drew Noyes himself not only would they find a wide range of stories about him – but numerous Drew’s own what he calls ‘hate sites’.

His financial position is not what it was. Business has slumped at One Stop Service Centre. He and Wanrapa had to pay out victims to have two court cases withdrawn, and his 'Thai wife' Wanrapa has, according to sources protected her own future and that of their children in the event he does not come back.

What law firm? Cut a deal with Drew?

(Incidentally at that link onestoplegalservices.com he claims he has 17 staff plus nine registered lawyers and 5 para-legals. As he has been having trouble providing a lawyer in his own cases people I daresay taking this with a bit of salt too)

Attempts to secure the help of the Mayor of Pattaya (He once described himself as the Mayor’s international adviser) have fallen on stony ground.

He is also no longer being accompanied by an army colonel to court cases as the National Council for Peace and Reconciliation or if not at least two army generals now know of his background.

He recently tweeted this which appears to be a sudden conversion from being a staunch pro-Thaksin man to be an ardent fan of the NCPO.

Unfortunately people who clicked on the link got this removal notice.

Its good to see some people are on the ball.

But that notice which states it has been removed because it violated You Tube's Terms of Service covers much bigger sins.

To suggest he is connected to the Army, and the Kings Royal Guard is quite outrageous and did not go unnoticed in the corridors of power. But there are still military men he is associating with.

It is somewhat surprising that the court let him go but then again they do not know about his past in the United States and the story written about him in the Morning Star in Wilmington, California, shortly before he hopped it and re-invented himself as a lawyer in Thailand.

One wonders whether he asked 'Google' to remove this too.

He certainly knows how to hop it. (The last time he returned he was too jet lagged, he said, to face a court case and sought an adjournment.)

But there are people in the United States who would be delighted at his return.

He went to the US with a Seoul stop-over. Even passing the international date line that is some going down the San Diego Freeway to get Google in Orange County. But I'm guessing he might have made the Google car park.

He is due in court on September 23 and 24th. At his last appearance he was somewhat exciteable I am told and blamed the author here for his extortion case. It apparently was all a conspiracy against him.

#DrewNoyes #DrewWalterNoyes

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FBI AND CHILD ABUSE CASES IN THAILAND UNDER SCRUTINY

September 13, 2014, 1:17 am

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BUSINESSMEN FALSELY ARRESTED PLANS TO SUE

FBI agents who allegedly withheld evidence which would have helped a man wrongly arrested for child sexual abuse in Pattaya broke their own laws, claims the victim American electrical engineer Christopher Hobbs.

It now appears the Thai authorities will drop charges which could have resulted in a 42 year jail sentence for Mr Hobbs.

Now Hobbs says he plans to sue the FBI in the United States.

There can be little worse in the present climate of an innocent man being arrested falsely for child abuse.

Hobbs was arrested in June for child sexual abuse in an apartment he did not own and had no need to visit.

He had a part share of a fruit machine business which was operating on the ground floor, and the delivery van a parked outside was registered to him, as he wanted to own assets of the company in which he had invested 25 per cent.

But the rooms above the business were rented out and living in the apartment where the alleged offences occurred was American Steve Strike wanted in Hawai for a string of sexual offences against a young boy.

Steve Strike

Not only were the FBI present after Hobbs was arrested on a visit to Pattaya (He lives in Bangkok but his wife has a shop in Pattaya) but they were also involved in handing over Strike to US Marshalls of the Maui Refugee Task Force, when he was arrested at the apartment and taken to the Immigration Centre. Amazingly they said nothing.

As a result of his address Hobbs has been asked to resign from his job in an international company, which otherwise, he says, has treated him very well.

But with his name all over the net as a 'paedophile' his future prospects are not good. Few internet sites in Thailand report acquittals in the courts. Simply because journalists do not regularly go to them.

Hobbs says he also repeatedly begged the US authorities to inform the Thai authorities.

Under US law Hobbs cites the case of Brady V Maryland ‘prosecutors have an affirmative duty under constitutional law to disclose all exculpatory evidence to the accused in a criminal proceeding’.

Christopher Hobbs showing evidence to Sudarat Serweewat of the FACE Foundation (Fight Against Child Exploitation)
on the back porch -

Exculpatory evidence is ‘any evidence in the possession of the government which could be favourable to the accused’. #470,373 US 83 (1963). Not only thatm, but the US authorites are obliged to disclose the information even if the defendant does not ask for it.

But of course the investigation was in the hands of the Thai police and US officials were presumably only present in an advisory or information gathering trip. Nevertheless Hobbs requests were flatly ignored - and he was told not to call the FBI - because he was under investigation in Thailand.

But can the FBI behave differently abroad to how they would behave in the United States. For this law is highlighted in police training manuals in the United States and is no guarded secret.

An LA based FBI agent who was also in Pattaya for Hobbs' arrest has also come under fire for suggesting to the prosecutor in Hawaii, who had been asked to re-examine Strike, that Hobbs may have been a room mate of Strike's.

“In my case there has been a clear and deliberate attempt as well as making false and misleading statement to the Maui Prosecutor,” said Hobbs today.

“They have been using a lame ass excuse of "cannot interfere" with the Thai investigation but that does not preclude them providing me exculpatory evidence under the US Constitution.

“They have withheld this information intentionally for three months and failed to disclose it prior to or at the time of my arrest. That is not to mention their negligence when they extradited Steve without informing local law enforcement.”

Currently two mistrails have been declared in Thailand. In one of the cases, that of Gregory Miller, the FBI were highly involved. And allegations have been made by a star witness in that case against a local FBI agent.

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SCOT ATTACK CAUGHT ON VIDEO - PATTAYA HAS RED LIGHT DISTRICT - ADMITS THAI NEWSPAPER

September 14, 2014, 6:28 am

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The attack on a 40-year-old Scot named as Stuart Page in Soi LK Metro in Pattaya two nights ago was caught on CCTV and appears to show at least one person who had nothing to do with the fight coming along to join in.

More common perhaps when foreigners are attacked in places like Pattaya, Soi Bangla, in Phuket and Soi Green Mango in Koh Samui, and Nana and Cowboy in Bangkok, one can normally expect a quorum of at least ten.

I like this from the Khao Sod– I think the English language section is written by a foreigner.

It’s the first Thai newspaper I have seen to admit that Pattaya is 'well known for its red light district,' even though that is something of an understatement. The problem is finding your way out of the 'red light' area.

From Khao Sod

CHONBURI — Police say they are searching for two Thai men who brutally assaulted a foreign tourist in the popular resort town of Pattaya early this morning.

Police say the assault took place at around 1 am near Soi Bua Kao in Central Pattaya district. The attack left the tourist, who said he is Scottish, with severe injuries on his head and bruises all over his body, police told reporters.

According to Pol.Cpt. Noppadol Raksawong, CCTV footage in the area showed the tourist and another foreigner arguing with a Thai woman in front of a bar in Soi Bua Kao. Two Thai men later arrived on a motorcycle and one of them drew out a knife and started attacking the tourist. A brawl soon ensued.

Pol.Cpt. Noppadol said much of the fight was obscured on the CCTV footage by an umbrella, though the tourist could clearly be seen attempting to walk away, only to be further assaulted. The two Thai men reportedly left the Scotsman bleeding on the street and sped away on their motorcycle.

Pol.Cpt. Noppadol said the police are working to identify and arrest the two men seen in the CCTV.

"This is an act that shows no fear of the law, and it happened in front of many tourists in the area," Pol.Cpt. Noppadol said.

Crimes against foreigners are common in Pattaya, which is well known for its red light district.

Link below to video

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DOUBLE MURDER OF YOUNG TOURISTS ON TURTLE ISLAND - POSSIBLE RAPE MOTIVE

September 15, 2014, 7:06 am

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The bodies of two young Britons were found on a beach on the island of Koh Tao early today in what is believed to be a case of double murder and possible rape.

Both had severe injuries consistent with being beaten to death.

Both are reported to have been found naked.

A bloodstained Thai hoe was found near the bodies on a rocky section from the beach, but less than 100 yards from the bungalows where they stayed.

They were named later as David William Miller, 24, from Jersey, and Hannah Victoria Witheridge, from Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, aged 23.

Thai Police believe that they attended a beach party with about fifty others on the night of September 14 which went on until just before dawn today.

Their bodies were found in a rocky area slightly secluded from the main Sairee Beach - the most popular beach on the island.

Pic: Siang Tai

Islanders are reported to have blocked the local ferry gangway to the mainland ferry, so that nobody can leave the island until the culprit or culprits are found as police presence there is limited to three officers.

Later police from the mainland blocked all ferry piers

Koh Tao (Turtle Island) is a world famous destination for scuba divers in the Gulf of Thailand. It is linked to the mainland at Surat Thani and Chumpon and other islands of Koh Samui and Koh Phangan by a series of ferries.

Police are sending a murder squad from the mainland town Surat Thani the headquarters of the southern regional Thai police.

Katherine Horton, 23, from Cardiff, was brutally murdered and gang raped on Koh Samui in 2006. Her attackers, three Thai fisherman were sentenced to death, But the sentence was later commuted to life.

In that case her attackers were lying in wait as she walked along Lamai Beach talking to her mum on the phone. Her mother heard the moment she was attacked.

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POLICE SEEK BRITON IN CONNECTION WITH KOH TAO MURDERS

September 16, 2014, 1:41 am

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NAKED COUPLE HARDLY KNEW EACH OTHER.

Police in Thailand said tonight they wanted to an interview a British man in connection with the brutal murder of two young backpackers on the Thai holiday island of Koh Tao.

As the bodies of David Miller, 24, from Jersey, and Hannah Witheridge, 23, from Norfolk, were stored in a local temple the murder enquiry had investigators on the alert in the Thai capital Bangkok

‘We need to talk to this man as a matter of urgency,” police said after being told that a potential victim and suspect had left the island despite an apparent blockade of the ferry piers by locals and police.

Hannah Witheridge

The man one of two friends of David William Miller,24, from Jersey left the island on the first ferry to the mainland at Chumpon and was believed to be heading for Bangkok. Thai Police earlier arrested Miller’s other friend, as yet unnamed, as he had some injuries on his hands.

But they released him after he gave a ‘satisfactory explanation’ and their enquiries switched to his second friend.

Police Colonel Songsak, who was brought in from the neighbouring island of Koh Phangan said:

“Although both bodies were naked we do not believe the two were boyfriend or girlfriend.

“We wish to interview David Miller’s friend, but we cannot give out his details at this stage. His name has been circulated. They all arrived together on August 25th. We need to talk to him as a matter of urgency.”

David Miller

Colonel Songsak said that Hannah Witheridge, 23, arrived with three friends on the island on September 12th. Her group had met Miller’s group but they had only known each other for three days.

The naked bodies of Hannah and David were found in a rocky enclave which separates Sairee Beach, the island’s most popular, and another small beach.

The spot is less than 100 metres from their respective bungalows in the ‘Ocean View’ resort.

David’s head had been badly hacked and Hannah had been hacked in the face. The suspected murder weapon, a bloodied hoe, was found nearby.

If police arrest the missing Brit and rule him out of their enquiries they may have to concentrate on the local population.

Almost all high profile murder of young Britons in Thailand have been committed by locals Thais or even Burmese.

Following the discovery of the bodies shortly before dawn today the Regional Police Chief General Panya Mamen flew into Koh Tao, a popular scuba diving island, to urge his officers to find the killer quickly.

The murder could have an impact on tourism. When Briton Katherine Horton, also 23, was beaten murdered and raped in Koh Samui in 2006 there was a backlash even though the killers were found and sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment.

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THAI POLICE HOLD BURMESE FOR QUESTIONING FOR KOH TAO MURDERS

September 16, 2014, 9:23 am

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FRIENDS OF VICTIMS HEAD BACK HOME

Andrew Drummond and Russell Attwood on Koh Tao

Consul Michael Hancock arriving on Koh Tao

Thai Police investigating the murders of backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller were today holding three Burmese workers on the Thai holiday island of Koh Tao after CCTV footage showed an Asian man prowling near the murder spot.

wreaths at a spot near where the couple were murdered

An apparent hunt for a British friend of David Miller was shrugged off by police saying that they could request British police to get finger print and DNA samples if necessary - and instead all efforts were being put into the new lead.

The sudden switch in the investigation, said Colonel Somsak Noorod, drafted in from the neighbouring island of Koh Phangan, was the behavior of an Asian person in the vicinity of the crime scene caught on CCTV.

Lt.Col Somsak speaking after a meeting with a British consular officer said:

“The man walked back and forth in the area sometimes quite hurriedly during the period it is estimated the victims died, between 2 am and 4 am.

“We are in the process of trying to identify this man. We are trying to clear this case up as quickly as possible. We do not know if it was one man or two or three involved."

The bodies of Hannah and David were found shortly before dawn yesterday by a Burmese member of staff at the Ocean View Resort where Hannah was staying with her friends, Hannah Elisabeth Beswick, 23, Hannah Hannah Clare- Howell-Day, 23, from Poole, Dorset, and a third girl called Emma, surname unknown.

They had only arrived on the island on September 12 and stayed in Rooms A3 and A5. But like David Miller and his friends had been in Thailand since the last week in September and all had stayed previously on the neighbouring island of Koh Phangan famous for its monthly Full Moon parties.

Khun Khaw, resort owner said: “This has all been very tragic. I feel for these young people. We need to be patient to find out who could have done this.”

David Miller, 24, was staying with his two friends from Jersey, Christopher and James Ware, believed to be brothers. It is Christopher Ware that Thai police had shown a lot of interest in.

Police believe this is David Miller and Hannah passing a CCTV not far from the AC club

The three young friends of Hannah left early today by boat to Chumpon and Bangkok just as the British consular official arrived. Christopher and James Ware had already left.

Thai Police have produced an i-phone as an exhibit in their investigation which was allegedly found in a worker's shack.

The AC Cub

The Ocean View - Hannah signed for both rooms on the ground floor on either side of the stairs A3 and A5

It is clear they wish to clear up the case quickly but still wish to interview people who were at the AC Club shortly before David Miller and Hannah Witheridge left the bar.

Its is known that Hannah had been diving with a dive shop called Phoenix but as she had only been on the island since the 12th few people knew her.

Police Press Conference

There are two police stations in Koh Tao, this the original and a new one by the pier. Several Burmese were taken here

pictures; russell attwood

London Evening Standard

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MURDER INVESTIGATION STUMBLES AS THAI POLICE SEEK MORE SUSPECTS

September 17, 2014, 12:51 am

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THAI POLICE RECEIVE PRIME MINISTERIAL PRESSURE AND MIXED MESSAGES OVER MURDERS ON 'PARADISE' ISLAND

Thai police appeared to be left without a murder suspect again last night – after three Burmese immigrant labourers were reportedly released from custody on the island of Koh Tao.

And the big question is the investigation going the same way as other investigations of Brits murdered in Thailand which seem to follow a pattern.

In previous murder cases, foreigners have been the first to be accused, then migrant workers. And following a tradition which is hard to break Thai police have a heavy reliance on confessions more than forensic police work.

Now it seems Thai police will have to take a more cautious route and await the result of a crime scene investigation to progress their investigation.

Police are under pressure from the Thai junta chief and prime minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha, who has called for a quick resolution to the case as it was tarnishing the country’s image.

General Prayuth follows a long list of Thai Prime Ministers calling for action from police in similar cases. Invariably the reason given was that image of the country and tourism was at stake.

These orders usually are phrased in a way which fails to take in the sentiments of the families concerned. The latest is no exception.

The junta chief also appeared to call into question the victims' conduct in addition to the perpetrators of the attack.

This may have been because he has been following wild stories in the Thai press.

The badly beaten bodies of Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24, were found naked on Sairee Beach, Koh Tao, feeding all sorts of speculation.

General Prayth said: "This kind of incident should not happen to anybody and it has affected our image,” he added Thai authorities must tell “tourists when the safe times are to be outside. We have to help them understand.”

He did not clarify what times it was safe to be outside - or rather when it would be unsafe.

Tourists on Koh Tao and the neighbouring island of Koh Phangan are accustomed to all night parties ending when the sun rises.

But these tend to occasionally accompanied by rapes, robberies, drug arrests and shakedowns, drownings and even shootings like that of backpacker Briton Stephen Ashton on New Year’s morning in 2013 on Haad Rin Beach, on neighbouring Koh Phangan.

He was shot dead in the cross-fire as two rival Thai gangs fought it out at a beach bar.

Stephen Ashton - shot in the crossfire

In the case of Welsh backpacker Kirsty Jones, 23, from Brecon, who was murdered and rape in Chiang Mai some 13 years ago a police officer was quoted as saying that Kirsty probably consented to sex with her killer, a comment which caused an international outcry.

A British Embassy spokesman was quoted by the Nation newspaper as describing the police investigation as ‘shambolic’ – something the Embassy later denied.

But in Kirsty’s case, Thai police first arrested a number of backpackers at the Aree Guest House.

Then having released them they arrested a Karen Burmese guide. The guide, called Narong, reported he had been beaten up in a safe house, and given electric shocks to his testicles before being dumped by the side of the road.

Kirsty Jones

Police then arrested the guest house owner Andy Gill and his Thai manager. But they too had to be released after spending quite some time in jail. Forensics showed that the DNA attacker was Asian.

But the Chiang Mai chief detective said that the murderer probably paid a male prostitute in Chiang Mai to provide a sperm sample which was introduced to the scene.

A national who was providing translation services for foreign journalists reported later that police called her a ‘traitor’. The case had to be taken off the Thai police and handed over to the Department of Investigation, which comes under the Ministry of Justice. The case has never been solved.

Sue Jones

In a Facebook message last night Kirsty’s mother said of the current investigation: “Here we go again, botched investigation, dna contaminated,red herrings everywhere.... Makes me so mad.”

There is no evidence to support the suggestion at this stage that evidence has been contaminated.

But Sue Jones remains frustrated at the inability to find her daughter’s killer and sees the same happening on Koh Tao.

Katherine Horton

Similarly when Katherine Horton,23, from Cardiff, was beaten, raped and murdered while walking on beach at Lamai on nearby Koh Samui in January 2006, local police started arresting other foreign guests including a Scot called Callum Macdonald.

But a police team was flown in from Bangkok and they arrested two Thai fishermen for the murder. The fishermen were sentenced to death.

They had boasted to friends how 'roi' Ms Horton was - but there was a self imposed cloak of secrecy on Koh Samui which delayed the investigation. The silence may have been due to nationalistic pride, and fear of the police or both.

Leo del Pinto

When in 2008 a Thai policeman shot dead Canadian Leo del Pinto, 23, in Pai, Northern Thailand and also shot and injured his friend Carly Reisig – local police took extraordinary lengths to cover up the murder and claim it was self defence while the policeman sergeant easily obtained bail.

Forensic evidence showed otherwise. Eventually again the Thai Police had to be removed from the investigation and replaced by the Department of Special Investigations.

Finally last year the policeman concerned was jailed for over 30 years for murder – but in between times while on bail he had also murdered his 18-year-bride of two weeks.

It is against this background that the current investigation is taking place. It is possible that the investigation is taking a methodical route, but people do not forget the past. And Thailand's largest foreign net forum - a site called Thaivisa,com is full of negative comments about both the Thai police in general and the police in Koh Tao and that is a strong perception.

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