The experience of an elderly Irish man in Pattaya should serve as a warning to tourists to always lock their hotel door at night. While 70 year old William Joseph was sleeping soundly in his Jomtien hotel room last Friday a thief was prowling the corridors checking all the doors to see you had left…
Paveena Hongsakul and the Chonburi provincial police chief attended a news conference after it emerged that a four year old was raped in the school toilets by three boys in Mathayom 2 (the second year of secondary). There are suggestions that the boys may have been armed with a knife. The school was named as…
The deputy commissioner of the Thai Tourist Police has revealed that he is set to fly to England to interview the 19 year old who claims she was raped on the controversial island of Koh Tao. Maj-Gen Surachate Hakpan – known in the Thai media as Big Joke – has said that he has made…
A dishonest Pattaya hotel maid gave the excuse that she thought the money a Russian tourist left out in his Jomtien beach hotel room was a tip intended for her. Siriwimon Sriwilaisuk, 18, was soon apprehended by Pattaya’s tourist police chief Lt-Col Piyapong Ensarn after the theft on Monday. Mr Nikolay Lavanov, 37, was on…
The mastermind of a tour scam that left thousands of holidaymakers bound for Japan stranded at an airport last year was sentenced to more than 4,000 years in prison Wednesday. The Criminal Court sentenced Pasist Arinchayalapis, or Sinsae Shogun, to 4,355 years in prison for 871 counts of indictment carrying a five-year jail term each,…
A French man and his Thai wife who were staying at a condo in Pattaya showed an interest in a Thai man’s Ford Ranger pick-up that was for sale. Wirot Jandaharn, 48, trusted the couple and let them take it on a test drive but that was the last he saw of them. They disappeared…
Attacked by an intruder and facing the imminent possibility of rape, a former school teacher in Thailand’s Sisaket province did the only thing she could think of at the weekend — she played dead. Miraculously, the gambit worked. Ban Don Aow police station in the province’s Kantharalak District received a report regarding a house robbery…
Thanawat Kamhaengpon – or Pete – was last week praised as the most honest of lottery vendors after he reportedly honoured a customer’s purchase of a ticket that won a first prize of Bt90 million, even though it had merely been bought through the Line messaging app. If true, that meant he still had the…
The Thai tech police have warned the public that there are consequences for posting and sharing fake news. Five years in jail and fines up to 100,000 baht to be precise. Pol Col Siriwat Deephor was speaking in the wake of a false story in which government lottery vendor “Peet” claimed that one of his…
The stepfather of a ten year old girl is in custody after admitting to multiple rapes. He said he did it because he needed sex and wanted to get back at the child’s mother. The case was revealed on Facebook after the little girl was taken into hospital with a severe stomach ache. She was…