IslandLover

It was also shown on the main BBC1 channel. I watched it and thought it was pretty tame considering the title of the documentary.

Do try and spell his name correctly. It's Jonathan, not Johnathon.

Two questions: 1. Why couldn't his plane have landed at Changi if Seletar was closed? 2. How come the plane had enough fuel to fly to Dubai, including two holding patterns along the way?

I think you mean Jonathan Head

I wish I could give your post a "shocked" emoji but there isn't one available here. This was not my experience of Sri Lanka at all. Perhaps it was different/better in the early 1970s. I went there on a 9-day trip organised for airline staff. It was my very first long-haul trip. Yes, there was poverty, yes there was begging, but it's the same in a lot of countries.

Brit drug smugglers have been apprehended at Koh Samui airport recently with suitcases full of hash.

I beat you staying in Sri Lanka by 10 years (early 1970s). It was not an H-Hole. Far from it. I had a most enjoyable holiday in a "nicer hotel". Nothing wrong with the place. Just don't get involved in drug smuggling.

No. This story's too tacky even for him.

If you had read the articles you would have known that they had to break into his room.

Likely he and his family are Catholic as he is from the Republic of Ireland.

Yes, but the Irish Republic is not.

The Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust?

Practice what you preach, Frank. Up thread you referred to two people as c***s. Both of them read this forum.

Most of the deaths were in Chiang Mai, weren't they? The two Canadian sisters died on Koh Phi Phi. The cause in all cases was suspected to be toxic chemical spray used to kill bed bugs.

Frank whatsisname Koh Tao apologist doesn't want to say, apart from using obscenities to describe them, but I know who they are. 🙂