An Australian man got Friday got one-and a-half-month jail term after he pleaded guilty of having violated the emergency law in Bangkok. Conor Purcell pleaded guilty of joining the protest of the red-shirt people and violated the ban of political gathering from March 14 to May 19. The Pathumwan District Court sentenced him to be […]
AN AUSTRALIAN man died in a motorcycle crash on Phuket’s notorious Patong Hill about 3.30am yesterday. He was named today as Adam John Sutcliffe, 32. Some questions about the crash remain to be answered. Phuketwan understands Mr Sutcliffe was travelling across the hill alone on a rented motorcycle, with his helmet hanging off the pillion […]
A 90-year-old Australian man has been charged with detaining and raping four young sisters at his home in northern Thailand. German-born Joseph Kraus Karl was arrested at his house in Chiang Mai province yesterday after police received a complaint from the children’s father. The Thai girls, aged seven, 11, 12 and 14, were allegedly abused […]
An Australian man is to face a Thai court on Thursday on charges of violating Thailand’s emergency laws by addressing anti-government rallies in May. Conor David Purcell, 30, from Perth in Western Australia, had been detained in late May over breaches of Thai immigration laws and was then charged under the emergency laws that include […]
WA man Bill Douglas, whose release from a Thai jail after only two years for murdering an American sparked an outcry, says he has psychiatric problems from the herbicide Agent Orange when he fought in Vietnam. The 61-year-old, a long-term resident of Thailand, was talking to _The West Australian _before his scheduled deportation to Perth […]
An Australian man being held by Thai authorities for breaching the state of emergency in Bangkok has had his appeal for bail rejected. Conor David Purcell appealed to the Supreme Court for bail after having his original request rejected. He said bail was justified because the charges against him have not been made clear. The […]
AN IRISHMAN is under arrest in a Bangkok prison while his role in the recent Red Shirt disturbances in the Thai capital, in which at least 85 people died, is being investigated. Conor David Purcell made regular appearances addressing major Red Shirt rallies in Bangkok’s occupation zone during the weeks of rioting in which some […]
(RTTNews) – Two foreigners, a Briton and an Australian, have been arrested in Thailand on charges of breaching emergency laws, an offense that carries up to two years imprisonment. A state of emergency was enforced in the capital Bangkok and nearby provinces after anti-government demonstrators stormed the country’s Parliament on April 7. Several UDD leaders […]
