In their own words

How Mr Drummond describes his source

In his own articles Mr Drummond says where his material came from, and whether he knows me. I quote his sentences exactly as he wrote them.

On how the material reached him, he writes:

"After publishing a story about the forthcoming libel case, we were contacted by Howell who unloaded his files."

Mr Drummond, his article of 2 December 2025 (andrew-drummond.com) · the article · archived copy

On a video, he writes:

"Howell complained to Dean about Flowers' sex-trafficking and gave Dean a secret link to a video he had made and hidden on YouTube, but ready to post publicly, making the accusations."

Mr Drummond, his article of 2 December 2025 (andrew-drummond.com) · the article · archived copy

My statement says: I categorically deny involvement in human trafficking.

On the lawyers Mr Howell used in the case I brought against him, he writes:

"Howell had ditched his Pattaya lawyer, whose only advice was to 'Deny! Deny! Deny!' and brought in a team I recommended from Bangkok."

Mr Drummond, his article of 2 December 2025 (andrew-drummond.com) · the article · archived copy

On whether he knows me, he writes, in an article of 10 June 2025:

"The author does not know and has never met or spoken to Bryan Flowers."

Mr Drummond, his article of 10 June 2025 (andrew-drummond.com) · the article · archived copy

and in an article of 13 February 2026:

"For the record I have never spoken to Bryan Flowers, ever."

Mr Drummond, his article of 13 February 2026 (andrew-drummond.com) · the article · archived copy

On the files he holds, he writes:

"All voice records and social media posts in the Night Wish files which run to 6 gigabytes have been checked for authenticity."

Mr Drummond, his article of 10 June 2025 (andrew-drummond.com) · the article · archived copy

My position is in my statement: I also dispute the authenticity of private messages and recordings attributed to me.

What he says he cannot confirm

In these sentences Mr Drummond himself qualifies what he reports. I quote each one exactly and link to the article so that it can be read in its place.

In an article of 17 December 2024, about complaints he says were made on another website about the Pattaya Addicts forum, he wrote:

"I cannot vouch for the truth of the allegations."

Mr Drummond, his article of 17 December 2024 (andrew-drummond.com) · the article · archived copy

In an article of 26 April 2025, about the same complaints, he wrote:

"As all the complaints to the site were anonymous these stories cannot be confirmed."

Mr Drummond, his article of 26 April 2025 (andrew-drummond.news) · the article · archived copy

In a caption to an image in an article of 28 August 2025, he wrote:

"We have no evidence the lady in the picture was employed in the sex trade."

Mr Drummond, his article of 28 August 2025 (andrew-drummond.com) · the article · archived copy

What the screenshots show Mr Howell writing about payments to Mr Drummond

The five frames below give the words in five Facebook Messenger screenshots of a conversation between Mr Howell and a friend of mine. The screenshots are preserved on my evidence site, where they can be seen in full. The wording here is taken from the captions to those screenshots on that page, in conversation order, frame 1 being the earliest.

What Mr Drummond writes about payment and about the conversation

The frames above are screenshots preserved on my evidence site. Mr Drummond disputes that the conversation is genuine, and I set his sentences beside the frames so that readers can see both.

On the conversation, and on payment, in an article of 1 September 2026, he wrote:

"Below is an example of a fabricated conversation between Adam Howell and another person, apparently designed to suggest that the author lacks ethics and acts only for money."

[…]

"The author does not accept payment for investigating matters raised by members of the public."

"In Howell's case, the author has had to spend money and help him relocate safely."

Mr Drummond, his article of 1 September 2026 (andrew-drummond.com) · the article · archived copy. These are sentences from one paragraph; the two sentences before the first, and one sentence between the first and the second, are omitted.

I dispute that description; the screenshots are published in full so that readers can judge for themselves.

In an article of 10 June 2025 he wrote:

"We do not take money for stories."

Mr Drummond, his article of 10 June 2025 (andrew-drummond.com) · the article · archived copy

The names he uses for me

These are the names Mr Drummond uses for me in his articles, each shown in quotation marks as he wrote it. They are counted across his 25 article pages, 20 distinct pieces, five of them posted on both of his domains, as listed on my evidence site.

“First used” is the earliest of those pages on which the name appears; the date links to that page unless marked “not linked”. Spelling variants are counted together.

Some of these are not Mr Drummond's own coinage. For example, in the first article in which they appear he attributes Soi Six Mafia and Mr. Soi Six Mafia to me, as something I am said to have said or been called; Poundland Mafia and Godfather of Soi 6 to what others are said to call me; and super predator to Mr Howell's investigation. Brien Followers is a spelling he attributes to a writer he quotes. The linked article gives the context.

These are his words for me, not descriptions I accept; my position is in my full statement.

¹ “Professor Monger” is a persona on the Belts of Mongering website, archived since July 2023. I am not Professor Monger. I host beltsofmongering.com as one of the more than 300 domains I host for other people; I did not write it, and hosting a website is not writing it. See my response to this claim. Back to the table

Articles no longer published

To my knowledge Mr Drummond has also deleted at least three articles about me.

The same method, whoever the target is

Mr Drummond has written about other people over many years. I name two of them here, with the number of articles and the years as my evidence site gives them, and, for Mr Noyes, some of the words he himself used.

• Drew Noyes: 10+ identified articles, 2014 to 2019, including his article of 26 January 2016. In his article about me of 2 December 2025, he used the words fake lawyer (the article).
• Niels Colov: 13+ identified articles, 2011 to 2025.

This site takes no position on the accuracy of his reporting about them. My evidence site sets out the list in full: The same method, whoever the target is.

The record elsewhere on this site

I set out claims from Mr Drummond's articles about me, with the record beside each, at Claims and the record. The sequence of publications and court decisions is at the Timeline. My full statement to The Sun is at Full statement.