News From Under the Carpet

[Mestizo]

Anybody ever hear what ultimately happened to Bob, who ran Spankys? Was he sentenced? Was he deported? Etc...

-Mestizo

[Gonzo the Face]

I was told that the case was to be abandoned last Monday due to his ill health, I was told by someone very close to the case that he was suffering from dementia and couldn't follow proceedings. Another member then reported that Australian media confirmed the case was abandoned on Monday but the reason given was his terminal prostrate cancer.

He was apparently bailed. Now I agree with Gonzo, you would have thought there would have been some degree of follow up from the Thai based English language media to a story like this.

Hi there B

Pardon my cranial density, but which thread are you responding to ????

G

[Ulysses G.]

The post concerning the ancient child molester?

[Saan]

The post concerning the ancient child molester?

The Thai authorities have long wanted this case to just go away. Because of his age/senility he was going to be hard to convict and if he was convicted what to do with him then. He was, I think, German born and there are two countries he could be deported to where he would be one of them's problem.

[NancyL]

In the west, the media would be keeping on top of these stories. Always good to trot them out on a slow news day where they can rehash all the details known to anyone who has been following the story. Here, the English-language media assumes everyone knows the background and doesn't do us the courtesy of rehasing the details in the final few paragraphs of a story.

I think in some cases, the outcome is swept under the carpet. The Downtown Inn deaths is a good example. What better way to remove any evidence than to tear the place down?

In other cases, like those of people waiting for trial, the wheels of justice can move very slowly here and the media doesn't keep up with the progress of those wheels, especially if the outcome is that the case is dismissed (why? that would be in the western media) or when someone is granted bail and just quietly disappears (the western media would ask what measures are underway by the authorities to locate the bailrunner).

[theblether]

The post concerning the ancient child molester?

Yes sorry, I quoted the earlier post but it didn't catch.......it was the ancient child molestor

[theblether]

The post concerning the ancient child molester?

The Thai authorities have long wanted this case to just go away. Because of his age/senility he was going to be hard to convict and if he was convicted what to do with him then. He was, I think, German born and there are two countries he could be deported to where he would be one of them's problem.

Correct, my source told me that this has caused some irritation on the part of the Oz authorities. They are repelled ( yes that's the word used ) at the guys arrogance. My source has been involved with the guy since the date of his original arrest, and says that you can see a rapid decline in the last year or so.

Effectively the guy that was arrested was a robust independent person, obviously not so now. Any notion that this guy was a weak minded lamb to the slaughter is found to be laughable to my source.

[hellodolly]

NancyL mentioned the Downtown Inn. the very thing I had been thinking of. I remember there was a so called reporter dragging two year old deaths a thousand miles into and claiming one death there because the guy who died did not stay there but had asked a friend if he wanted to go swimming with him there the next day and the friend said no. Also there is many deaths here in Chiang Mai. I can not remember any attempt to relate any other deaths to the one's in the Downtown Inn. There could have been 2 or 3 on the other side of town. Not sure but that might be a factor the WHO looked into for darn sure TV people didn't

Many different answers but no final conclusion.

There was lot's of evidence that was never introduced into thee equation Like the Seattle Lady who all though she was still sick managed to get back to Seattle I am sure she saw some one there. What did they have to say Or the one who almost died like her friend from New Zealand did but lived to go home what did the doctors say there.

But the big thing to me was the World Health Organization got involved and I never heard there findings.

[Gonzo the Face]

Don't know if it was official or not, but didn't the WHO strongly imply the improper usage of insecticide or inhalation or ingestion of insecticide to strongly used in some of the rooms? I believe before the WHO got involved the management or owners of the hotel managed to do a big super clean of the place.

Something funny when people in ajacent rooms cash in their chips at almost the same times.

After time memories and varied stories seem to merge together.

[hellodolly]

Don't know if it was official or not, but didn't the WHO strongly imply the improper usage of insecticide or inhalation or ingestion of insecticide to strongly used in some of the rooms? I believe before the WHO got involved the management or owners of the hotel managed to do a big super clean of the place.

Something funny when people in ajacent rooms cash in their chips at almost the same times.

After time memories and varied stories seem to merge together.

You got that rite it was a married couple that had a heart attack in the same room within a few moments of each other. That one I could see the possibility of. They were in there sixties and if they both had a bad heart one sees the other die of a heart attack and has one themselves is plausible. It was the other two deaths that a month apart and the two Ladies who became very sick but managed to survive.

There was a lot of talk about the insecticides but I do not believe they were the final verdict. I think it was left open as there was some controversy over the amount used and a month between the two deaths with no other problems.

[masuk]

I seem to remember that a survivor got back to Canada and had blood tests there, which showed a high level of a banned insecticide.

Again, this is from memory.