Briton makes false robbery report seeking insurance claim - Pattaya

[petercool]

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[Orac]

Interesting follow up on this on Andrew Drummonds site!

[marinediscoking]

So it was a "complete setup" by the local BIB it turns out. How could all the the TV CSi Hangum High posters overlook that there were none of his belonging claimed stolen in the photo's. In these cases they go to the room of the so called victim, find the items and then display them as fraud evidence for the photo shoot. That is because they were actually stolen! This man did not even have travel insurance to make a claim. At the trial "neither the prosecutor or police went to the court to object the dismissal of the case". Seems his lawyer had asked too many simple questions at soi 9 that could not be answered. I guess all the drive posters around here too busy with the "he's not British" and the "give him the maximum sentence" to actually put 2 + 2 together and that they should have given this man the benefit of the doubt.

[Rumblecat]

Aye, this thread is such a train wreck. Especially those weird bigots who use the ethnicity of the man as evidence of his guilt, to the extent that one poster chimes in with some rubbish about the New World Order planning to ethnically cleanse white people from their own lands, and rather than hand him a tinfoil hat, another poster actually liked it.

Actually sat there, read that drivel, and clicked like. Unless they were clicking like ironically, like how you applaud a drunk man who is trying to tie his shoelace or something. Might be that.

But if the Brit's story is true (and it seems to be judging by how the Thai judge dismissed the case) then it's a horrific example of police corruption and you really have to feel sorry for the guy.

[ukrules]

So it was a "complete setup" by the local BIB it turns out. How could all the the TV CSi Hangum High posters overlook that there were none of his belonging claimed stolen in the photo's. In these cases they go to the room of the so called victim, find the items and then display them as fraud evidence for the photo shoot. That is because they were actually stolen! This man did not even have travel insurance to make a claim. At the trial "neither the prosecutor or police went to the court to object the dismissal of the case". Seems his lawyer had asked too many simple questions at soi 9 that could not be answered. I guess all the drive posters around here too busy with the "he's not British" and the "give him the maximum sentence" to actually put 2 + 2 together and that they should have given this man the benefit of the doubt.

So this leads to the next logical question, how many times have they done this before and got away with it ?

Every similar case ever prosecuted should be scrutinised in great detail.

Who were the officers involved ?

[mauGR1]

One would hope that the posters who berated this guy would come out and apologize to him.

No chance, i guess.