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PussyLover 69
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Report from Bangkok Post dated Friday 8 June 2007 :-
Suspected cyber-blackmailer held
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Lumpini police have arrested a British man suspected of using Bangkok Internet cafes in a plot to blackmail Tesco in the United Kingdom with a threat to poison its supermarket food.
Stephan Alexander, 36, and his wife were taken from the Nana area near Sukhumvit Road and handed to the Crime Suppression Division police, a source on the investigation team said.
Mr Alexander denied sending the threatening email, the source said. He was arrested on Friday after police and immigration authorities questioned both him and his wife.
The CSD was working closely with Scotland Yard. UK police were still not convinced Mr Alexander was the right man, said the source.
Scotland Yard investigators are in Bangkok working on the case, looking for the blackmail sender, who signed his messages with the name "John Smith".
The arrest came after police viewed the image taken from a security camera at an Internet cafe where a man sent an email to the superstore firm in London.
Pol Lt Col Chakrit Lamjangpan of the Crime Suppression Bureau said that video footage from the cafe's security camera showed that the only customer at the time the e-mails were sent was a large Caucasian male wearing a white t-shirt and glasses.
The source said the man had sent the messages from five Internet cafes, all of them located on Soi Nana, to Tesco executives in the UK.
He threatened to poison food in Tesco supermarkets if they did not pay him 2 million pounds (136 million baht) in cash.
The first message was sent on May 21. The latest went out on Wednesday at 9pm from an Internet cafe in the area.
Similar threats have been made against Tesco stores in China and in the UK in the past.
In 2001, a 51-year-old from Dorset, Robert Dyer, was jailed in Britain for 16 years for sending letters bombs to Tesco customers in an attempt to make the company give him a cash card that he could use to withdraw 1,000 pounds at a time from ATMs.
The court was told that Dyer had been inspired by Rodney Witchelo, a US police officer, who, in 1988, planted razor blades in baby food and mercury in a tin of beans.
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Posted on: 1:48 am on June 8, 2007
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China Sailor
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Damn,
I brought today's lunch from a Tesco in Birmingham.
No worries though, after what I have eaten in China I doubt anything can poison me.
Wonder though if that guy Dyer got a 'Darwin Award' for his efforts...
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Posted on: 3:56 am on June 8, 2007
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ThaidUp
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Kudos for Scotland Yard for finding the correct large Brit in a T shirt on Soi Nana. Sorta like finding a needle in a haystack. So much for blending in the crowd.
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Posted on: 4:33 am on June 8, 2007
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Loung Steeb
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..it was the white socks that gave him away....
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Posted on: 12:51 pm on June 8, 2007
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Gus
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"Scotland Yard investigators are in Bangkok working on the case, looking for the blackmail sender, who signed his messages with the name "John Smith".
I bet that there was no shortage of volunteers for that job Probably down soi cowboy right now!
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Posted on: 4:11 pm on June 8, 2007
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PussyLover 69
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Report from The Nation dated Saturday 9 June 2007 :-
Brit arrested for threats to Tesco - Man nabbed at Internet cafe after e-mailing 7th demand
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The hunt by British and Thai police for a blackmailer who threatened to poison food in a Tesco outlet if he was not given 2 million pounds (Bt137 million) ended with the arrest of a British man, who said he needed the money to get a business started in Bangkok.
Alexander John Winstone, 36, said he had no accomplice.
Married to a Thai woman, the Briton said he simply wanted to settle down in Thailand and open an Internet cafe near the Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre.
Winstone said he felt the giant retailer would have no problem paying the money because it was a very profitable business.
"Of course, I now realise that my actions were very wrong," Winstone said in a letter he wrote after his arrest.
He was nabbed at 8pm on Thursday just as he walked out of an Internet cafe in Soi Nana after he sent the seventh blackmail e-mail to a top executive of Tesco.
In it he threatened to poison food sold in the chain's outlet and then tell British media about the poisoning incident if he was not given 2 million pounds. The e-mail also stated how the Tesco should pay the money via Internet banking.
"I now recognise that what I did was very misguided, a silly idea that I took too far. I would like to stress that it was never my intention to cause anybody any harm or hurt, and as I was working alone it was impossible for me to do so," a part of Winstone's letter said.
He also offered his apologies to the people of Thailand, Tesco and the Royal Thai and British police forces.
Thai police announced the arrest of Winstone yesterday.
"The threat involves a large amount of money. It has been big news in Britain," Deputy National Police Commissioner General Issaraphan Sanitwong na Ayutthaya said.
Britain's Scotland Yard alerted Thai Police after investigations showed six blackmails had been sent from five Internet cafes in Bangkok's Soi Nana. Recordings from a closed-circuit TV system revealed Winstone had been the only customer at the Internet caf้ from which the blackmails were sent.
Both Thai and British police subsequently scoured the Soi Nana area for the man captured in the recordings.
Winstone confessed on arrest.
He was living in an apartment in Soi Nana.
Issaraphan said Winstone would face up to five years in jail if convicted.
Andy Pearce of the British Embassy in Bangkok said prosecution of Winstone would proceed in line with Thai law. He declined to comment on whether he would be deported.
Winstone completed secondary education in Britain and worked as a driver there. He bought some stocks and had some savings when he came to Thailand.
He first travelled to Thailand in 2004, since when he has made several visits to the country.
Winstone told police that he had been running out of money when he decided to resort to blackmail.
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Posted on: 1:53 am on June 9, 2007
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DaffyDuck
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In terms of dumb criminal, it doesn't get any more stereotypical than that.
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Posted on: 6:40 pm on June 9, 2007
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PussyLover 69
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Report from Bangkok Post dated Sunday 10 June 2007 :-
Thailand to prosecute Tesco e-blackmail
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Bangkok police officers on Saturday brought the Briton who confessed to sending threatening emails to retail giant Tesco executives in an attempt to extort funds from the retail giant to reenact his crime, with police expressing confidence that they will submit the case for prosecution next week.
The reenactment started at two internet cafes in Bangkok's Sukhumvit Soi 4 - the Nana entertainment district - and the accused man is now detained in police custody.
Alexander Winstone, 36, confessed to sending email via the Internet to Tesco executives. The email threatened to poison food at branches of the international retail company if it failed to pay extortion money of 2 million British pounds (136 million baht).
Investigators are checking his criminal record and will conclude the case before handing it over to state prosecutors next week for prosecution.
The British Embassy in Bangkok plans to seek 400,000-baht bail for the suspect on Monday.
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Posted on: 1:05 am on June 10, 2007
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DaffyDuck
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Oh, and what happened to Stephan Alexander?
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Posted on: 6:29 am on June 10, 2007
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seajohn
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Quote: from PussyLover 69 on 2:59 pm on June 10, 2007
to reenact his crime
Pretending to type an email in front of everyone...
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Posted on: 4:41 am on June 11, 2007
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