What's up with this? Anybody have the inside scoop?Andrew Drummond Sought by Police
Newspapers around the world are distancing themselves from claims by yellow journalist Andrew Drummond that he works for them as he shows the banners of these newspapers on the first page of his one man blog, hate website without the knowledge or approval of the newspapers.
"These banners of prominent newspapers he has illegally put on his site to give him credibility will come down one way or another. Our investigation shows Drummond is unemployed and does not work for these newspapers," said a lawyer representing one of seven new plaintiffs against Andrew Drummond for defamation and lying to hurt reputations and businesses of foreign businessmen and Thai officials.
One of two plaintiffs who already won a million baht civil court judgment in Thailand against Drummond says, "We are looking for his assets, but beside his car which we already got a couple of years ago, there is little value to him. He can barely pay his rent on his small house. But we will follow him and get the money he owes us even if we have to file more criminal charges for defaulting on the court ordered payment he must make to us.”
Thai police are continuing a massive investigation into a myriad of lies and defamatory statements made by Andrew Drummond on his one man blog against Thai officials, Thai government organizations and business people and Thai companies. The attacks are for no purpose but to destroy the reputations of many Thai and foreigners making positive contributions to Thai society. Alcoholism may be a factor.
Investigators have discovered that at least 14 of the names used to post supportive statements made by Drummond in his blogs are in fact Andrew Drummond himself. However, when the police and cybercrimes get the list of email addresses associated with blog names like “Topper,” "Fact" and “Solomon” then the true identities of those who have defamed and committed libel will be unveiled and further arrests may be forthcoming.
Andrew Drummond has defied a order by the Thailand based web hosting company which ordered him to remove false content from his website or they would close down his site.
The web host acted following an official letter to the hosting company from Thai police who are gathering all of the mounting evidence to arrest Drummond and get him convicted of the many crimes he has committed.
Andrew Drummond has already been convicted many times for making false and defamatory statements about people in Thailand and he received suspended prison sentences for libel.
“No reputable newspaper would hire such a man and that is why he reverts to using his vanity blog to make himself feel important;” said media expert Harold Smyth.
Now, if convicted, Andrew Drummond will face jail time since he has violated the terms of the suspended sentences he received by yet again lying about people. No one understands why. He has no income to speak of and no followers except other disgruntled foreigners with no future who sit and blog along with him like sheep.
However, now that those few individuals will learn that many of the other bloggers they are chatting with on the blog are all Andrew Drummond himself. It is a very lonely existence.
It is unlikely that Drummond will receive donations or support from the foreign correspondents since the most recent charges are indefensible by Drummond and he has turned his blog into a "hate site" according to one member of the Bangkok Foreign Correspondents Club.
Andrew Drummond admits that in one of his many criminal cases "I was fingerprinted, jailed, and forbidden to leave the country." See http://cpj.org/2004/07/cpj-condemns-cri ... -suits.php
Andrew Drummond is an unemployed freelancer who is an alcoholic and attacks Thailand and its people on his little blog. There is not one positive story on his entire blog. He is known to use at least 14 different names to post comments to his own stories on his blog so that it looks like he has a lot of support.
We could destroy him with our much bigger newspaper website, but that it is not our character. We will let the law and our team of Thai lawyers and influential friends deal with him.
Many have filed criminal charges against Andrew Drummond and he just won't quit trying to defame people. He was convicted already twice of defamation and libel when he wrote a freelance article that proved to be false for the Bangkok Post and Andrew Drummond received two, two year suspended prison sentences. This time he will have to serve his sentence when he is found guilty of lying.
The cyber crimes division of the Royal Thai Police, the Ministry of Information and Computer Technology, the Pattaya Police and the Bangkok Police are all investigating Andrew Drummond and has asked the hosting company to remove the site. This will take time.
http://pattaya-times.com/a7447-andrew-d ... -by-police
(I put this in Cambodia in the News because of his involvement in some Cambodia based stories. If this is the wrong forum, please feel free to move it.)