Thread: Brit Tom Armstrong reported missing after failing to return from Thailand

Originally Posted by Smug Farang Bore

Bower. At 54 000 I would say that was evergreen delux not business.

No, it was Premium Laurel, their equivalent to Business class. Very good value.
I am returning to BKK in March, same class £1600.00 return.

Originally Posted by wasabi

The commentators on here are all missing. Missing two bricks short of a full load.

Oh dear after DD demise all the beige people are coming over...

Originally Posted by StrontiumDog

"We've got a bit of information about at least two withdrawals in the city centre."

Most likely the kid himself just not contacting family....

silly twit...

strange stuff, yet quite common in Thailand

Originally Posted by Sir Wilson

Originally Posted by StrontiumDog

"We've got a bit of information about at least two withdrawals in the city centre."

Most likely the kid himself just not contacting family....

silly twit...

Yeah possibly and this fund could be a total scam. Say it ain't so but how many cancer funds do we see in the news that turn out to be scams. A hell of allot.

Maybe Drew Noes is heading the effort.

Originally Posted by socal

allot

a lot

Originally Posted by socal

Noes

Noyes

Had you considered the possibility that this poor fucker had been tortured or drugged to get his PIN number.
No I thought not.

Socal: Points towards complete retard status: 29/10

Originally Posted by chassamui

Originally Posted by socal

allot

a lot

Originally Posted by socal

Noes

Noyes

Had you considered the possibility that this poor fucker had been tortured or drugged to get his PIN number.
No I thought not.

Socal: Points towards complete retard status: 29/10

Sounds like somebody is going through a lot of effort to make a hundred bucks.

He doesn't look like the kind of guy that is worth torturing or drugging to get PIN numbers from. He is young.

Keep digging fuckwit.

Originally Posted by socal

He is young.

He looks older than you.

BBC News - Tom Armstrong search: Thailand trip for missing man's father

2 February 2013 Last updated at 19:53 GMT

Tom Armstrong search: Thailand trip for missing man's father


Tom Armstrong had been diving in Thailand


The father of a Suffolk man who has been missing in Thailand for nearly a month is flying out to the country on Sunday to try to find him.

Tom Armstrong, 22, from Kelsale near Saxmundham, had been due to arrive at Heathrow from Bangkok airport on 9 January but did not catch the flight.

Father Kingsley Armstrong said: "I've had a lot of help from parents who've been through a similar sort of thing.

"We're fairly certain now that he's in a specific area within Bangkok."

Tom Armstrong has been in Thailand since last April and had been living on the island of Koh Tao for a diving course.

He was last in contact with his family via email on 6 January, when he told them of his flight plans home.

Since his disappearance, money has been withdrawn from his bank account in Bangkok.

'Tom, get in contact'

"We're not sure whether he's hurt, injured or unable to come forward," said his father.

Via a Facebook page devoted to the search for his son, Mr Armstrong said parents in a similar situation had "given me a lot of helpful contacts and explained how they went through the process of finding their children who'd been lost in Bangkok".

Mr Armstrong has scheduled meetings with the Thai authorities and will be distributing posters of his son around the city.

He said: "If you're there Tom, get in contact with me."

Helen Armstrong-Bland, Tom's mother, has set up a fund to help with the search, hoping any money raised could be used for flights for the family to Thailand.

She said: "Tom's dad is going out, I might follow and there might be other costs in the future as it's all a bit of an unknown quantity."

Suffolk Police are working through Interpol and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office with the Thai authorities to help with the investigation.

Mr Armstrong is prepared to stay in Thailand until his son is found.

What I found strange about this case is he sent his mum an email stating he was in a bit of trouble. Doesnt sound like someone in trouble with the police or a case of him being abducted. WHy was he not prepared to let his mum know what the trouble was, does not look like shortage of cash either.

^Same thing caught my eye. When I was that age, my mother would have said, "What kind of trouble are you in?" Etc, etc.

It is weird, they've set up a facebook account for him, they've not mentioned if he had his own account and if it has been accessed or not, I would think almost every kid that age has one.

Originally Posted by Sir Wilson

It is weird, they've set up a facebook account for him, they've not mentioned if he had his own account and if it has been accessed or not, I would think almost every kid that age has one.

No everyone that age gives us their right to privacy like that.

So, the son is MIA in Thailand. Then Dad came over to look for him, and now he has gone missing too?

^Huh? Where'd that come from Mr. Moog?

No mention of how large the sums of money withdrawn were ? After this length of time it still is very strange that he would chose to go incommunicado to me.

Sad, but doubt that they will find him alive.

I reckon he has got himself hooked on crystal meth or yaba.

His Mother must be fearful that her son has been pulled into some paedo pimping ring. In which case I can't see how they trace and extricate him.

As large as Bangkok is; completely vanishing is very far fetched, unless you've been offed, or really are determined not to be traced. I wouldn't want to be in young Toms shoes if it is a case of going awol. It smacks of something more than that sadly.

What I find distinctly odd about this case is the conduct of his parents who allegedly have started a "fund" in order to finance a search for the lad.

Why would anyone do that? It costs £500 to fly from the UK to BKK and £30 a night to stay in any number of reasonable hotels. Are his parents so potless that they can't rustle up a couple of grand to look for their only son who has apparently disappeared in dubious circumstances. I mean, what sort of people are they who in increasing desperation and worry suddenly think " Well, Ok John, you go ahead and book a flight for yourself while I stay at home and organise a fund to pay for what might be a long, long expedition and we don't want to be out of pocket do we so I'll just hang around and see how much comes rolling etc, eh"?

It simply isn't real, is it?

maybe they are paying some private detective

^ And look for him...how exactly when you are apparently skint?
Stand on a street corner with a sign?
Oddness.