British journalist Andrew Drummond has left his Thailand patch after 25 years citing a “direct threat to the safety of himself and his three children”.

On his blog, he reports that the latest threat came from “foreign criminals in Thailand working in liason with the Thai police and Thailand’s Crime Computer Crime Act”.

He said: “My wellbeing has been threatened as have those of my children. This is not of course the first time, but the recent threat came from a group of people who have killed with impunity before, and have even had police set up people on false charges.”