“Mick the Pom” jumps bail

**dirtydog** · 26-04-2006, 10:37 AM

Tuesday, April 25, 2006
“Mick the Pom” jumps bail

PHUKET: When British murder suspect Michael John Taylor failed to make a scheduled court appearance yesterday, Phuket Provincial Court issued a warrant for his arrest and seized the land title document he posted as bail.

Taylor, aka “Mick the Pom”, is on trial for the August 17, 2005, stabbing murder of his 28-year-old live-in girlfriend Jantra Weangta. He was released on bail from Phuket Provincial Prison on March 7, when the Phuket Provincial Court accepted as bail a chanote land title deed valued at 400,000 baht.

It was not reported how Taylor came into possession of the chanote or to whom it is issued. Although land title deeds are commonly used by Thai nationals to secure bail release, it is illegal for one to be issued to a foreigner.

Taylor’s lawyer, Somsak “Sam” Chattay, told the Gazette that when he called his client on April 21 to remind him of the court appearance, Taylor said would attend.

The lawyer said he has since learned that Taylor visited Chalong Police Station on April 22 to report that a woman had stolen his mobile phone.

K. Somsak noted, however, that losing a mobile phone was not a valid excuse for failing to attend a court hearing.

“He knew what he needed to do and where he could contact me to ask the court to reschedule if necessary,” he said.

When asked if he thought his client was a flight risk, K. Somsak said it would be difficult for Taylor to leave the country without his passport, which is still being held at the Chalong Police Station.

Taylor will be arrested and put back in prison, his lawyer added, if he attends any of his upcoming court hearings, which are scheduled for June 29, June 30 and July 7.

phuket gazette

**dirtydog** · 29-06-2006, 08:33 PM

PHUKET: Phuket Provincial Court has suspended indefinitely its case against British murder suspect Micheal John Taylor, after he failed to appear for a scheduled hearing this morning.

It was the second hearing Taylor had missed after he also failed to turn up in court on April 24, 2006, in breach of the terms of his bail release. The case against him is now on hold pending his capture by police.

Taylor, better known as “Mick the Pom”, was on trial for the murder of his 28-year-old live-in girlfriend Jantra Weangta who was stabbed to death on August 17, 2005. He was released on bail from Phuket Provincial Prison on March 7, when the Phuket Provincial Court accepted as bail a chanote land title deed valued at 400,000 baht.

After he failed to appear on April 24, the court seized the title deed and issued a warrant for his arrest, notifying the British Embassy of his fugitive status.

Taylor’s lawyer Somsak “Sam” Chattay told the Gazette, “Mr Taylor did not come today, so the court must suspend his case. If the police can arrest him, the court will summon him again and the case will resume.”

But it may be too late for that. The lawyer said he had heard many rumors that his client had already fled the country.

“There are many rumors about him; that he is in England, Bali or Bangladesh. So I’m not sure. Where could he be?” asked the fugitive’s attorney.

After Taylor missed his first court date on April 24, K. Somchai told the Gazette that he thought it would be difficult for the Briton to flee the country since his passport was being held by Chalong Police.

The circumstances behind the Briton’s escape from justice are reminiscent of the case of Sam Van Treeck, a Belgian man accused of the October, 2004 murder of Phuket-based dive instructor Chompoonut “Jeab” Kobram who was stabbed to death in Pattaya. Van Treeck remains at large having fled to his native country after posting as bail a “rented” chanote to the Pattaya Court.

phuket gazette

**NickA** · 29-06-2006, 08:36 PM

^Well done boys - I spose they didn't realise that someone might be willing to give up a couple of thousand pounds to save a life inside a Thai prison - funny, cos it seems loads of the fockers do it!!

**dirtydog** · 29-06-2006, 08:50 PM

It is all a bit strange here, my mates wife got done for having an illegal gun, 50,000baht bail money here in Pattaya, then they had to pay another 50,000baht bail money in Chonburi before they could get their original bail money from Pattaya police back, then when it went to court she was fined 500baht and got her bail money back.

**NickA** · 29-06-2006, 09:15 PM

Bail for murder is bladdy stoopid anyway, if they know they're guilty they're gonna run however much money they're going to lose (or is it loose?)!!!

**Fabian** · 29-06-2006, 10:22 PM

Someone over on babbelgosch.com claims the victim was his wife's best friend.

**Sir Burr** · 30-06-2006, 12:26 AM

I met Mick the Pom a couple of times. A very fucked up unit.

**Marmite the Dog** · 30-06-2006, 12:33 AM

Originally Posted by Sir Burr

I met Mick the Pom a couple of times. A very fucked up unit.

I bet he was fom Manchester or somewhere shitty like that.

**Sir Burr** · 30-06-2006, 01:16 AM

tell you the truth, I can't remember. He was a on the bones of his arse yachtie. Got drunk a lot and he was not a good drunk. The other yachties had pretty much turned their backs to him years before this murder.
His alibi was that he was rooting a katoey on Karon beach at the time of the murder. Most believe that he did it.
I thought there was a policy of no bail for murder suspects. I must be wrong.

**cantona** · 30-06-2006, 11:35 AM

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

bet he was fom Manchester or somewhere shitty like that.

Fok off cheeky kunt

**Mid** · 21-03-2014, 04:11 PM

Thailand 'murder' fugitive Mick Taylor 'only caught because his visa ran out'
March 21, 2014

Michael 'Mick' Taylor.

A Hull man accused of murdering his girlfriend on a Thai island was only arrested after his visa ran out.

Offshore worker Michael "Mick" Taylor, 50, had been on the run for seven years.

He was originally arrested in 2005 on suspicion of stabbing girlfriend Jantra Weangta.

Her body was discovered in the bungalow the couple shared in Phuket.

Mr Taylor denied the charge, claiming he had been having sex on a beach with a "ladyboy" at the time.

He went on the run during his trial in 2006 and was spotted in the Philippines in November.

The Foreign Office confirmed last week a British national had been arrested in the country and is in an immigration jail awaiting extradition.

But the Phuket Gazette says it has written confirmation from the Bureau of Immigration in the Philippines that Taylor was arrested for overstaying his visa, and authorities later realised he was wanted for murder in Thailand.

Taylor fled in 2006, midway through the trial, which had been heavily delayed.

hulldailymail.co.uk

**Mid** · 08-04-2014, 06:26 PM

Still no extradition request for Phuket fugitive arrested a month ago
Chutharat Plerin
2014-04-07

Jantra Weangta was found stabbed through the heart in Taylor’s Chalong bungalow.
Photo: Gazette file

PHUKET: One month after his arrest in the Philippines, the extradition of British fugitive Michael John Taylor, also known as “Mick the Pom”, wanted in Phuket on murder charges, appears to be at a standstill.

Phuket’s top cop Maj Gen Ong-art Phiewruangnont says he has no knowledge of the case, and the officer in charge of it, Lt Col Danprai Kaewwehol of the Phuket Provincial Police, has said that he fully supports bringing Mr Taylor back to Thailand and will talk to a prosecutor.

Repeated calls to Lt Col Danprai since March 11, five days after Mr Taylor’s arrest by Filipino police on visa overstay charges, have gone unanswered or yielded no information.

Phuket’s Chief Public Prosecutor Chiengsean Panhya explained that he could not pursue the extradition without a formal request from the police.

“I don’t have the authority to pursue it unless the police ask me to. Our office is not even permitted to ask the police to file such a request,” Mr Chiengsean said.

“However, once they do, the next step would be for us to forward the case to the Office of the Attorney General in Bangkok, and it would then be in their hands to get Mr Taylor back to Thailand to face justice.”

Mr Taylor, 50, is wanted for the 2004 stabbing murder of his girlfriend Jantra Weangta, 27, in Chalong.

Ms Jantra was found dead in Mr Taylor’s rented bungalow on August 17 (story here).

Mid-way through his 2006 trial, Mr Taylor disappeared (story here).

Taylor’s arrest came after long delays and inaction by Phuket law enforcement authorities under the previous Provincial Police Commander Choti Chavalwivat, who had been informed of his whereabouts last year (story here).

Col Danprai told the Phuket Gazette last week that he had been unable to follow up on Mr Taylor’s case with the public prosecutor.

“We are very busy identifying [missing Russian expat] Mr Slabinskiy. Please give us some time. We will get back on the Taylor case as soon as possible,” he said on Thursday.

phuketgazette.net

**aging one** · 08-04-2014, 07:35 PM

hopefully, this new publication will get their lazy asses in gear.

**taxexile** · 08-04-2014, 08:16 PM

“We are very busy identifying [missing Russian expat] Mr Slabinskiy. Please give us some time. We will get back on the Taylor case as soon as possible,” he said on Thursday.

got to laugh really at the incompetence, laziness, stupidity and ignorance of these crimefighters who seem to have no interest whatsoever in fighting crime.

**baldrick** · 08-04-2014, 08:16 PM

the poms could probably extradite him back to home on tax charges - the tax department has the ability to find dirt on everyone

Originally Posted by taxexile

interest

what do we have here son - yer busted

**MeMock** · 08-04-2014, 08:30 PM

Nice pick up Mid.

**Smug Farang Bore** · 08-04-2014, 09:41 PM

He used to hang about the bars on Bangla. Most that knew him basically thought he'd done it.

You'd rather go down for murder than admitting to banging Katoys on Patong beach though.

**Albert Shagnastier** · 08-04-2014, 10:17 PM

Originally Posted by aging one

hopefully, this new publication will get their lazy asses in gear.

What planet do you live on mate?

Originally Posted by taxexile

got to laugh really at the incompetence, laziness, stupidity and ignorance of these crimefighters who seem to have no interest whatsoever in fighting crime.

more like.

Originally Posted by taxexile

no interest whatsoever in fighting crime.

When crime pays the bills - who wants to fight it?

**panama hat** · 10-04-2014, 07:59 AM

Originally Posted by Mid

“We are very busy identifying [missing Russian expat] Mr Slabinskiy. Please give us some time. We will get back on the Taylor case as soon as possible,” he said on Thursday.

Originally Posted by Mid

Mr Taylor, 50, is wanted for the 2004 stabbing murder of his girlfriend Jantra Weangta, 27, in Chalong.

Busy, indeed . . . 10 years.

**Mid** · 10-04-2014, 05:06 PM

Police ‘too busy’ to extradite Hull man Mick ‘the Pom’ Taylor accused of killing girlfriend in Thailand
James Campbell
April 10, 2014

ARRESTED IN 2005: Offshore worker Michael 'Mick the Pom' Taylor

A HULL man accused of murdering his girlfriend in Thailand has still not been extradited to stand trial because police have been "too busy".

Offshore worker Michael "Mick the Pom" Taylor, 50, was arrested in 2005 after he was accused of plunging a knife into his girlfriend Jantra Weangta's heart in Phuket.

He went on the run midway through his trial in 2006 and was spotted in the Philippines in November.

He was arrested in the Philippines a month ago after his visa ran out.

But Phuket's Chief Public Prosecutor Chiengsean Panhya has said he cannot pursue the extradition without a formal request from the police.

He told the Phuket Gazette: "I don't have the authority to pursue it unless the police ask me to. Our office is not even permitted to ask the police to file such a request.

"However, once they do, the next step would be for us to forward the case to the Office of the Attorney General in Bangkok and it would then be in their hands to get Mr Taylor back to Thailand to face justice."

Miss Weangta's body was discovered in the rented bungalow the couple shared in idyllic Chalong Beach, Phuket.

Mr Taylor denied the charge, claiming he had been having sex on a beach with a ladyboy at the time Miss Weangta, 27, was killed.

At the time of the murder in 2005, Thai police recovered a large Bowie knife and a pair of bloodstained trousers, while prosecutors had lined up 13 witnesses, including a DNA expert, to testify against Mr Taylor.

Despite the seriousness of the accusation, Mr Taylor had been granted bail after a land title deed, valued at 400,000 baht (£8,000), was posted as a surety.

He fled in 2006, midway through the trial, which had been heavily delayed.
Information regarding Mr Taylor's whereabouts in November was brought to the attention of Thai authorities after the owners of a bar in Pundakit, about 100 miles west of Manila, claimed they heard him bragging about the killing.

The Foreign Office confirmed the arrest of a British national in the Philippines on March 6 and has been providing consular assistance.

The case has provoked uproar in Thailand, with questions being asked of both the British and Thai authorities after Mr Taylor was permitted to slip through the nets.

The officer in charge of the case, Lieutenant Colonel Danprai Kaewwehol, of the Phuket Provincial Police, insists he wants Mr Taylor to be extradited back to Thailand and plans to hold talks to prosecutors.

Col Danprai has told journalists he had been "too busy" to follow up on Mr Taylor's case.

hulldailymail.co.uk

**Rainfall** · 11-04-2014, 12:07 AM

He's going to get away because the Thais can't round up the witnesses from ten years ago, or find the files. They filed him as 'Mikk the Pom'.

**jphripjah** · 22-11-2015, 11:35 PM

Did the Philippines ever extradite him to Thailand or did they just release him? I've seen rumors on Facebook that he is now living freely in Thailand or Cambodia. Was he ever tried?

**jphripjah** · 16-12-2015, 12:35 AM

Looks like he is in Cambodia, according to the Daily Mail:

Michael Taylor who denied murdering his Thai girlfriend is living in Cambodia | Daily Mail Online

**DJ Pat** · 16-12-2015, 12:48 AM

A HULL man accused of murdering his girlfriend in Thailand has still not been extradited to stand trial because police have been "too busy".

Too bloody lazy more like. the murdered woman was hardly hiso

This kind of piss poor excuse is on a par with many Thais who are always late, saying ''Lot dit maak maak''

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