Flying Sporran’s Diary
This website has long since broken the ‘you cannae make it up’ barrier with the likes of Drew Noyes, and Brian Goudie but the latest calls and emails have been regarding David Hanks.
It seems that David John Hanks who is suing me in court over this story in the SUN is not quite the limp wristed and wronged waif with an impeccable background that he has been telling judges down on Koh Samui.
Viewers of this site will already know that he has been revealed as the former state licence holder of ‘Masquerades Brothel’ which specialized in ‘Asian Hotties’ in Keysborough, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, which he sold on to some Chinese a couple of years ago.
This is something which he was forced to admit in a court in Pattaya – claiming the girls were looked after very well. It is not however something that he has easily admitted in Koh Samui court, where he claims he is a businessman with an unblemished record.
But to add balance I should immediately state that Hanks’ sister in Girvan, Scotland
(Hanks has complained at my outrageous behavior at sending a reporter to interview her. It almost giving her a heart attack, he claimed)
He is a quiet man, Margaret McCulloch, 65, says, who rarely drinks so probably 'would not qualify for the mafia'
She knew he ran a brothel adding: 'I did not approve'.
This contrasts starkly with what he tells people he is. He has of course claimed many times that he knows Chinese mafia (He sold his brothel to two Chinese) but now I am hearing he has embellished his tale to include his participation as an adviser to the Australian television series ‘Underbelly’ – one of the country’s best produced factual crime series.
I am not even going to ask the producers about this ) He certainly likes to look the part – as in the picture in the SUN story..
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| Noyes and Hanks (drinks sometimes) with beer wallah in Shenanigans, Pattaya (the beer wallah bit is just a joke) |
But clearly Hanks cannot run with the big boys and his role in Thailand has been very much the enforcer of Drew Noyes, current President of the Lions Club 310D Silom Branch, who is up in Pattaya court on extortion charges.
A DSI (Department of Special Investigations) investigation however puts him at the top of the tree in a racket which involved Russians visitors to One Stop Service Center in Pattaya offering short term loans to Russians at 60 per cent per month.
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| Hanks was not around for this photo-call - one of the Russian team |
The DSI handed the matter however over to Pattaya Police – which at the time (but maybe not now) was a bit like handing the police a pawn ticket.
However the vitriol about Hanks coming out of both Melbourne and Auckland must be sair to bair.
Houses he has owned have been known to ‘spontaneously combust’ apparently, especially one in the Cheltenham area of Melbourne which the local council said he could not demolish.
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| David Hanks, furniture repair - Photo-shopped by Weapon |
He has indeed been in the upholstery business and has made I believe such things as this barber’s chair.
But it was ailing and he sold it to his son-in-law and daughter.
His second daughter is in the US and married to a University policeman Jason Trumbower – and
According to a story, now removed from the blog of fake lawyer Brian Goudie, he was assisting the Secret Service in the United States track down a reader to this site Ally Cooper, for an alleged plot on Hilary Clinton!
A barber’s chair features heavily in his stories how Australian crooks having killed their victims strapped in one, then used to freeze the bodies than cut them up with a saw before dumping them in the ocean.
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| Posted on Facebook by Brian Goudie. Officer Jason Trumbower 'hot on Ally's trail' |
Like his colleagues, Noyes, and Goudie, he does however rather tend to embellish, but in the witness box as plaintiff he has come across much more as the defendant as he continually repeats: ‘That is nothing to do with the case. I'm not answering that.”
Hanks last turned up in court in Pattaya to stand by Noyes during his extortion trial. With him he brought his pregnant north eastern Thai girlfriend who has a permanent look of excruciating boredom.
He has a thing about Asian women, though there is nothing wrong with that.
Like Goudie who cannot find his latest girlfriend sometimes he misreads the signals.
On one trip home from visiting his family in Scotland he turned up back in New Zealand with a Singaporean woman, with whom he now has issue. He surprised his wife with his new girlfriend and explained the marriage was over - which I guess it was.
New Zealand’s immigration policy was at the time very lenient and pro-Asian. After two years Asian living in New Zealand could re-locate to Australia. That loophole has now been closed. Needless to say that relationship has now finished but for legal reasons I will not publish the details I have been given.
RECAP -The Three Stooges/Jokers
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| Photo-shopped by Weapon |
Drew Noyes, 59, currently on trial for extortion in Pattaya. Also with returned libel cases brought bu the author and Ally Cooper in Bangkok. Claimed to be a lawyer in Thaiand. Exposed by the Morning Star in North Carolina in 1995 prior to his departure to Thailand. Allegations included property and share fraud. Sexual harassment.
Brian Goudie, also known as Brian Goldie: Career conman. He evaded arrest for a fraud on Royal Bank of Scotland by fleeing to Australia. However in Australia he was jailed for six years for stealing from his employers. He re-surfaced in Thailand as a British barrister and former Captain in the Royal Marines. Is charged with fraud and deception. He is accused of swindling a 76-year-old American woman out of 7.9 million baht. Case at Pattaya Provincial Court. An application has been made to withdraw bail.
David John Hanks, charged with racketeering in Pattaya by running illegal money lending business to Russians. He has also claimed to be a lawyer. Former owner of Masquerades Brothel in Victoria, which specialised in 'Asian Hotties'. He supposedly runs a furniture restoration business in Pattaya. But has no premises and is not even shown as a shareholder in his own company.