Liverpool Lou

What do you interpret as being an Immigration Officer's job responsibilities, then?

"...all those rich kids murdering police officers..." You mean the one rich man who didn't murder anyone but killed an off-duty officer in a traffic accident? Who are all the others?

Big nothing in my book. Up to you what you think. Needing a valid visa is a "big nothing"? Do you have the same attitude to illegals in your own country?

Every single word of that is plain false.

None of those offences that you specify have "gone unnoticed", nor not dealt with, they are reported frequently.

It's more likely that it didn't "take five" to catch him, much more likely that they were all doing their job patrolling when they bumped into him appearing furtive.

They don't look half as silly as the goon Briton who overstayed.

Is there no rabies, no dog fights, no dog rapes in the rest of Thailand, then?

The police have admitted it.... clean your face off and give up the pathetic chase. I asked you that question before the (very recent) announcement had been made. I do not have anything that needs to be cleaned off my face because I made no assertion that the police were in the right. Neither did I state that the woman was in the wrong. All I posted was that until evidence was available, either way, it was not reasonable, based on evidence that was available at the time, to dogmatically suggest that the woman was right and the police were wrong. I was waiting for evidence either way, which is reasonable, now it seems to be there.

Where do you have this information from? I am wondering because many bars (but not all) close at 2am at least here in Central Pattaya. My information is from the horses mouth. The bars you refer to will either be the ones that (a) don't want to open late or (b) haven't made the request to their police rep for the required "permission" to open late.

They can't be everywhere at the same time and it's doubtful that the bouncers would have attacked if they were around.

Your last three words may be superfluous!

At 4am? Why not? The OP states that at 4am the police responded to a call, it didn't say that the incident happened at 4am.

How do you know he is puffed up with steroids? He doesn't, he can't even see the photo properly.

Jesus...which photo are you looking at? I see an overweight Indian.

They don't need to turn the volume down, they all have (temporary) "permission" from the police to be open late.

Cotton shirts are available at every tailor. If it's not, go next door to the next tailor. "Pants"? Is that underwear or trousers?

Erm.... it seems that evidence has just been made public. What evidence are you referring to that has been made public, and where? Do you mean evidence that backs the police version?

"...unless she’s some neurotic attention seeking narcissistic psycho - but this does not see to be the case". The actress posting all this on here social media (and not directly reporting it to the police) "does not seem to be attention-seeking" and not reporting it to the police? Really?

Apparently they have already been in contact with the Taiwanese authorities buy, obviously, would need their co-operation to do the interviews. They wouldn't be saying that they will be going there if they weren't going to be allowed access to the woman. She could refuse to be interviewed and "laugh in their faces" but that would not do her credibility of accusations with no evidence any good if she did refuse.

The Grab driver made that claim about the four people that he was transporting in his car, not the police.

No.. you’ve twisted it around... I’m suggesting the she shouldn’t be ‘disbelieved’ For the benefit of everyone reading this, including all my haters, I'll emphasise that I accept the RTP force, as an entity, is corrupt. I also know that not every single officer is necessarily corrupt. You are suggesting that she shouldn't be disbelieved, even though she has produced no evidence, whatsoever, that her story is 100% true. I'm suggesting that it would be reasonable and fair to give the same consideration to the police in this case, not every case, as, so far, they are claiming to have evidence backing their version. Those who are demanding that the police evidence should be made available to the public right now, in the middle of the investigation and just before they interview the woman in Taiwan are not being reasonable with those demands. If it turns out that the police do not have that evidence, the public will soon know as there is now so much publicity surrounding it.

"...many of them are liars and crooks". And that same description does not apply to many civilians who post their, so far, unverified claims on social media?

You are correct, but the cops have the evidence, the CCTV footage? The girl doesn't have anything. Apparently, yes, so I wonder how much she's looking forward to her and her friends' being interviewed in Taiwan by the Thai police?

To be fair... what evidence can the woman provide ?? To be "fair", you're suggesting that because she cannot provide any evidence she should just be believed? Really? Maybe she would have more credibility in some eyes if she had reported the alleged extortion while she was here instead of waiting until she was out of the country. Maybe the real story will come out (either side's) after she and her friends have been interviewed by the police who are now gong to Taiwan for that purpose. Would the RTP risk the consequences of not being able to back up their version of the events with the associated publicity of going to Taiwan if they weren't sure of their case?