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John Lee explains his actions to police at the Kathu station in Patong

Phuket Police Fear 'Expat Bikie Gang' in Patong

Wednesday, January 12, 2011
POLICE in Patong have expressed concern that an expat bikie gang is operating on Phuket after a man was arrested yesterday and found to have two guns at his house.

The 40-year-old expat resident, who was named as John Lee from Australia, is accused of having put a .45 to his girlfriend's temple and threatened to kill her if she did not leave his house.

The woman, Suthisa On-Chat, 28, who is from Phuket, went to Kathu Police Station in Patong and told police that Mr Lee had put a gun to her head yesterday at the Nanai Road address and said: ''Go away, I don't want you in my house. If you don't go, I will kill you.''

Colonel Kittipong Kaikawn said that police went to the house, found two weapons, two magazines and a small number of bullets, and arrested Mr Lee.

Mr Lee denies the allegations. He said the weapons belonged to a Thai ''reggae friend'' who had left them in his safekeeping.

Lawyers for Mr Lee sought bail but police opted to keep Mr Lee in custody. He has been charged with menacing behavior and the possession of two illegal guns.

The investigating officer, Lieutenant Sakon Banditsak, said that police would continue their checks on Mr Lee and his activities.

Colonel Kittipong said Patong police had become increasingly concerned about the activities of a gang of tattooed, bike-riding expats around Patong.

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Phuket has thousands of expats living more or less permanently in Phuket, controlling underworld businesses through Thai proxy friends and partners.

Immigration Office would do well to check those wankers.

Posted by Whistle-Blower on January 12, 2011 11:06

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re whistle blower's comment.
where is the editors usual fervor for editing out unsubstantiated rumor and accusations??

Posted by another steve on January 12, 2011 11:53

Editor Comment:

whistle blower is an expat so everything he says about expats must be the absolute truth, another steve. Everybody knows expats never exaggerate, or commit crimes. They only ride about in bikie gangs for charity.

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#Whistle-Blower.
I've lived here for 12 years and have never come across an expat meeting your description. I assume you speak for yourself.

Posted by Pete on January 12, 2011 12:29

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Yawn, dear Ed please stop posting these stupid comments.
You are ruining your good rep .

Posted by lord Jim on January 12, 2011 12:42

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The above editors comment really makes this section look like a petty squabling match. Surely an Editor needs to rise above ??

Anyway, the biker gang that's probably being hinted at appears to be running the new gogo.

Posted by LivinLOS on January 12, 2011 12:50

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I may understood that some expats get irate by my comments but as many silent expats running large businesses with a lot of Thai staffs to feed every month, I get boring by all those louts living in Phuket with officially Tourist Visas or ED Visas, or setting up companies with Thai proxy partners and giving hard times to the expat communities with their bad behaviors.
Every corners of Phuket have those gangsters roaming in restaurants, bars and discos.
Just read the past PG and Phuketwan and you will see all the stories of wankers who are in Phuket for fun, surviving with little jobs and roaming at night at girly places.
Unfortunately, Thai Administration does not make difference between good and bad foreigners; so when a foreigners is grabbed by police all the expat community in Phuket is suffering.

Posted by Whistle-Blower on January 12, 2011 13:06

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#Whistle-Blower.
Some suggestions: Don't stand around on street corners. Don't visit discos and girly bars, then you won't be able to see the people you rabbit on about. Presumably you were looking for somebody to love you when a wanker of a biker got in first - is that how you got to see his visa? Spend a little time brushing up your English then start looking for another country to live in, with fewer gangsters - try Mexico. I'm not suffering like ALL the other expats you mention - does that make me a good or bad foreigner in the eyes of Thai Administration?

Posted by pete on January 12, 2011 13:44

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Whistle-Blower is right: many farang control underworld businesses through Thai proxy friends and partners. [moderated] So, like legal business, why farang can't controll also illegal business?? Who sell drugs mainly to farang? Farang! Everybody knows that this is the truth, but better put the head under the sand.

Posted by Dave on January 12, 2011 14:16

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As one wise man said, just because you own a gun don't make you a killer.

Thailand should know that man, don't make conclusions that you don't have fact about.

A man with a gun, and now police is worried about all tattooed bike riding expats ?

I once saw one crooked police, so now i'm worried about ALL polices in Thailand, they might be the same as well.

Posted by Anders on January 12, 2011 14:24

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Surprised its taken them so long to cotton on to these guys - they've been around for about five months now.

Posted by Mister Ree on January 12, 2011 19:17

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Editor Comment:

whistle blower is an expat so everything he says about expats must be the absolute truth, another steve. Everybody knows expats never exaggerate, or commit crimes. They only ride about in bikie gangs for charity.

I just lost a lot of trust in you Editor
i am one of them and i have never done anything wrong here, and i have given a lot to charity, under the Tsunami we the biker gang gave hundreds of thousands to a school in Kao Lak, damn i lost everything for you, and it's called biker gang

Posted by southbound on January 13, 2011 10:46

Editor Comment:

That response should be taken in context, southbound. There's no suggestion that bikies or bikers are all bad or all good, likewise expats, or other human beings.

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Thailand is a lawless country and as such it attracts lawless people from other countries. They tend to gravitate to the shadier (in a non-climatic sense) places like Pattaya, Samui and Phuket where they blend in. In the case of Phuket the usual options for 'respectability' are either real estate or diving. A real estate agent is just another unimaginative expat who can't swim. Hence, we have now have over 1,000 estate agents and so many dive shops you could walk to Koh Phi Phi if they all lined their boats up together. Most of those characters would last 5 minutes in any decent society. The biker stuff is just a side issue.

Good 'ere ennit?

Posted by A. Skeptic on January 21, 2011 16:38

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What's wrong with tattoos and motorbikes? Once again, stigmatisation of a whole group of people for one incident ! Stupid and dumb society !
Makes me wanna vomit !

Posted by Anonymous on January 23, 2011 16:16

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He's so gooood. (Just be strong..John)

Posted by Kanyanee on April 27, 2011 16:09


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