British backpacker facing life imprisonment for selling drugs on Death Island/Koh Tao.
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British backpacker facing life imprisonment for selling drugs on Death Island/Koh Tao.
An unnamed Thai police officer revealed that his superiors attempted to suppress a story about the arrest of a British backpacker for selling Category 1 drugs on a notorious island in Thailand.
Andrew Brett was arrested on Thursday, February 29, for allegedly selling ecstasy and LSD to other foreign tourists at the Ecco Bar on Koh Tao island in the southern province of Surat Thani. The Thai officer, who wished to remain anonymous, informed a reporter that the police had been monitoring the drug dealer for several months before they swooped to nab him.
The Thai cop made known they wanted to conceal the crime because the drug dealing took place on the notorious Koh Tao island, widely known as Death Island.
Following a tip-off from a concerned patron, police initiated an investigation into allegations that the British man was distributing drugs at the bar. After monitoring his activities for five months, officers finally apprehended him on his way to the establishment on February 29. Among his belongings, officers allegedly discovered 0.54 grammes of ecstasy in a plastic bag, along with 25 ecstasy pills and 75 LSD sheets, locally known as magic paper.
According to police reports, Brett would leave his apartment daily at 8pm to sell drugs to customers at the Ecco Bar, a short distance from Sairee Beach where British backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller were tragically killed in 2014.
The police officer revealed that the case had been kept confidential for several months. Subsequently, they stated that orders had been given to “suppress the case”’to safeguard the island’s notorious mafia-like reputation.
“The suspect admitted that all the narcotics found belonged to him. He said he sold ecstasy pills to tourists for 1,000 baht each, while the LSD paper was sold at 100 baht each.”
Brett has been charged with possession of Category I narcotics for distribution and now faces a potential punishment of up to life imprisonment or even the death penalty, depending on the severity of the case.
Koh Tao earned the nickname Death Island following the tragic murders of British backpackers Witheridge and Miller in 2014. Subsequent incidents of tourist deaths have raised concerns, with several cases remaining unexplained.
Authors, documentary makers, and researchers have attributed these incidents to corrupt Thai police and a powerful group of local families controlling the island, accused of covering up the murders, reported The Daily Mail.
Witheridge and Miller lost their lives on Koh Tao on September 15, 2014. They are believed to have been fatally attacked by the son of a prominent local family on the supposedly idyllic island, after which corrupt Thai police allegedly framed two innocent Burmese workers, Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo.
Following these events, numerous other unexplained tourist deaths on the island have come to light, leading to the chilling moniker Death Island.
Local police have endeavoured to suppress any negative incidents emerging from the picturesque island, while a select few local families, who have resided there for decades, profit financially from its appeal to backpackers and scuba divers worldwide.
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https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/crime/t ... bust-video
Andrew Brett was arrested on Thursday, February 29, for allegedly selling ecstasy and LSD to other foreign tourists at the Ecco Bar on Koh Tao island in the southern province of Surat Thani. The Thai officer, who wished to remain anonymous, informed a reporter that the police had been monitoring the drug dealer for several months before they swooped to nab him.
The Thai cop made known they wanted to conceal the crime because the drug dealing took place on the notorious Koh Tao island, widely known as Death Island.
Following a tip-off from a concerned patron, police initiated an investigation into allegations that the British man was distributing drugs at the bar. After monitoring his activities for five months, officers finally apprehended him on his way to the establishment on February 29. Among his belongings, officers allegedly discovered 0.54 grammes of ecstasy in a plastic bag, along with 25 ecstasy pills and 75 LSD sheets, locally known as magic paper.
According to police reports, Brett would leave his apartment daily at 8pm to sell drugs to customers at the Ecco Bar, a short distance from Sairee Beach where British backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller were tragically killed in 2014.
The police officer revealed that the case had been kept confidential for several months. Subsequently, they stated that orders had been given to “suppress the case”’to safeguard the island’s notorious mafia-like reputation.
“The suspect admitted that all the narcotics found belonged to him. He said he sold ecstasy pills to tourists for 1,000 baht each, while the LSD paper was sold at 100 baht each.”
Brett has been charged with possession of Category I narcotics for distribution and now faces a potential punishment of up to life imprisonment or even the death penalty, depending on the severity of the case.
Koh Tao earned the nickname Death Island following the tragic murders of British backpackers Witheridge and Miller in 2014. Subsequent incidents of tourist deaths have raised concerns, with several cases remaining unexplained.
Authors, documentary makers, and researchers have attributed these incidents to corrupt Thai police and a powerful group of local families controlling the island, accused of covering up the murders, reported The Daily Mail.
Witheridge and Miller lost their lives on Koh Tao on September 15, 2014. They are believed to have been fatally attacked by the son of a prominent local family on the supposedly idyllic island, after which corrupt Thai police allegedly framed two innocent Burmese workers, Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo.
Following these events, numerous other unexplained tourist deaths on the island have come to light, leading to the chilling moniker Death Island.
Local police have endeavoured to suppress any negative incidents emerging from the picturesque island, while a select few local families, who have resided there for decades, profit financially from its appeal to backpackers and scuba divers worldwide.
Source :
https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/crime/t ... bust-video
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Apparently he had just recently married and has a four month old child to his Thai wife :
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ather.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ather.html
After monitoring his activities for five months
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This reminds me of the hapless former poster Fred Edwards who got nabbed and imprisoned for selling dope in Cambodia. Wasn’t he caught when a neighbour’s cow invaded his drug empire?
I wonder what happened to him? Fred I mean, not the cow.
I wonder what happened to him? Fred I mean, not the cow.
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Why don’t you ask him he’s just posted on the link below?Vespasian wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 7:16 pmThis reminds me of the hapless former poster Fred Edwards who got nabbed and imprisoned for selling dope in Cambodia. Wasn’t he caught when a neighbour’s cow invaded his drug empire?
I wonder what happened to him? Fred I mean, not the cow.
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Apparently reading the comments on the Daily Mail he had been at it for years,he was banned from most bars and nightclubs as everyone knew about it!
The Police wanted to keep it quiet after so much bad publicity about the island,I guess in the end they just couldn’t ignore it any more?
How stupid can one person be on his own it just beggars all belief?
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There is no way he was doing this without the knowledge of the local mafia and/or the police on the island. Mainly because they are roughly the same people. A couple of families run Kho Tao. Everyone knows everyone's business in that place. Where do you think he was sourcing the product from? Quite clearly he put someone's nose out of joint and this is the result. Selling drugs as a farang in Thailand is never going to end well. Ask those Aussie lads that have were caught in a sting operation in Pattaya a few years ago. Messy, messy, messy.Chroy Changvarite wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:17 pmApparently reading the comments on the Daily Mail he had been at it for years,he was banned from most bars and nightclubs as everyone knew about it!
The Police wanted to keep it quiet after so much bad publicity about the island,I guess in the end they just couldn’t ignore it any more?
How stupid can one person be on his own it just beggars all belief?
Or there is no such thing as mafia families controlling everything (if that was the case there would be turf wars and far more violence) and he was just a dude selling drugs and the cops run the island and nicked him?angsta wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 12:54 amThere is no way he was doing this without the knowledge of the local mafia and/or the police on the island. Mainly because they are roughly the same people. A couple of families run Kho Tao. Everyone knows everyone's business in that place. Where do you think he was sourcing the product from? Quite clearly he put someone's nose out of joint and this is the result. Selling drugs as a farang in Thailand is never going to end well. Ask those Aussie lads that have were caught in a sting operation in Pattaya a few years ago. Messy, messy, messy.Chroy Changvarite wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:17 pmApparently reading the comments on the Daily Mail he had been at it for years,he was banned from most bars and nightclubs as everyone knew about it!
The Police wanted to keep it quiet after so much bad publicity about the island,I guess in the end they just couldn’t ignore it any more?
How stupid can one person be on his own it just beggars all belief?
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strange an double standards enforced here ( thailand)
There are more than a few Cannabis shops operating in Phuket owned & staffed by Russians>
one here in Kamala even has a grow room on the 2nd floor of their shop house
every evening lots of people sitting on the sofa/ chairs outside the shop smoking product
as to Koh Tao, as stated , a few familes run all the illegal business there with the cops paid off<
obviously this fool, didn't give them a cut
There are more than a few Cannabis shops operating in Phuket owned & staffed by Russians>
one here in Kamala even has a grow room on the 2nd floor of their shop house
every evening lots of people sitting on the sofa/ chairs outside the shop smoking product
as to Koh Tao, as stated , a few familes run all the illegal business there with the cops paid off<
obviously this fool, didn't give them a cut
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There's a big difference in the law between weed which has been decriminalized to some extent, and class A's like LSD or Ecstasy.Phuket2006 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:21 amstrange an double standards enforced here ( thailand)
There are more than a few Cannabis shops operating in Phuket owned & staffed by Russians>
one here in Kamala even has a grow room on the 2nd floor of their shop house
every evening lots of people sitting on the sofa/ chairs outside the shop smoking product
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How is it double standards between selling cannabis legally from a shop front and selling ecstasy and LSD illegally from bars and nightclubs please explain?Phuket2006 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:21 amstrange an double standards enforced here ( thailand)
There are more than a few Cannabis shops operating in Phuket owned & staffed by Russians>
one here in Kamala even has a grow room on the 2nd floor of their shop house
every evening lots of people sitting on the sofa/ chairs outside the shop smoking product
as to Koh Tao, as stated , a few familes run all the illegal business there with the cops paid off<
obviously this fool, didn't give them a cut
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