BRITISH MEDIA MOGUL SUES OVER SEX TRAFFICKING ALLEGATIONS AFTER BAILING HIS WIFE ON CHILD ABDUCTION & CHILD PROSTITUTION CHARGES.
A British online newspaper publisher, whose real money-making business is in the Thai sex trade, is suing a man who has allegedly accused him of being a sex trafficker.
In case 888/2567 in the Thai resort of Pattaya Bryan Stephen Flowers is suing Canadian Adam Ryan Howell over allegations said to have been made in an unlisted YouTube video.
This case could be controversial. Flowers is one of the biggest operators of bar-brothels in the Thai resort and now possibly Thailand. Howell has pleaded not guilty to the charge.
It is understood that Howell, from Saanichton, British Columbia, had invested nearly US$500,000 in Flowers’ ‘Night Wish Group’ of bars, with hostesses and rooms for sex. But when he asked to withdraw his investment, his request was turned down by Flowers.
Local Pattaya police declined to investigate the case.
As a media mogul, Flowers controls a national news site in English and Thai and other provincial news sites in, Bangkok, Phuket and Pattaya. His most successful is his flagship site the Pattaya News, which is often trawled by foreign tabloids (due to the nature of stories sourced from the sex resort.) This business makes no profits.
Flowers, 43, from Coventry, has been in the middle of mafia wars in the Thai sex resort where foreign bar owners have been competing over the possession of young Thai for its sex trade.
Child prostitution and trafficking allegations
Flower’s Thai wife Punnipa Flowers is accused in court of the very things he is contesting.
Together with two others, an English bar manager named William Bilton, also known as Reece, 31, from Barrow-in-Furness, and Charanya Deeppair, a cashier-mamasan. Punippa is on trial on multiple charges which include, human trafficking and trafficking a person under the age of 18 into the sex trade in Thailand.
This relates to a raid by Anti-Human Trafficking Police from Bangkok back in April 2023 on the Flowers controlled ‘Flirt Bar’ in Pattaya’s Soi 6 – a lane regarded as the cheapest and sleaziest end of the sex industry in Pattaya. The trial is due to end after the New Year.
The charges against Punippa have not been reported by the local news organisations including Flowers’ Pattaya News.
Thailand’s Trafficking in Persons Unit said the charges related to a 16-year-old girl who was found to have been employed at the bar.
Flowers has twenty-seven bars in Soi 6, offering sex workers with rooms provided where the acts can take place. It would still have been illegal, even if the girl had been an adult. Local and Thai government officials and police turn a blind eye as the sex trade brings in billions.
Flowers is a career sex merchandiser. He quit his business course at Worcester University in 2007 and arrived in Thailand initially as a sex-tourist. He returned later to operate a website forum for sex tourists, whom Flowers called ‘mongers, which he had prepared in England.
He made money from selling advertising and organising parties after ‘ guided tours’ of Soi 6 and other nightlife areas.
A website called the ‘Truth About the Pattaya Addicts Forum’ alleged that bar and guest house owners, who did not advertise, subsequently found very unfavourable reviews by posters on Pattaya Addicts, and that favourable reviews had been deleted.
All allegedly received threats when they failed to pay up and one reported that Flowers was accompanied by a Thai who brandished a gun. As all the complaints to the site were anonymous these stories cannot be confirmed. The website was terminated but the owner admitted that Flowers had complained, but had only asked for the removal of his address in Coventry.
In 2017 Flowers publicly distanced himself from from the sex side of his business prior to, he said, a claim for Thai citizenship.
– I have no evidence of mongering*, owning bars on my facebook, one of my staff went through the last 7 years and removed any pictures of me in bars and with girls (I am applying for Thai citizenship later and they will be checking everything. (Bryan Flowers, Oct 7 2017)
(Urban Bictionary: MONGER – Short for whoremonger, i.e., one who frequents whores and prostitutes.
He’s a true monger, even his vacations are all to primo whorefucking destinations)
The local foreign controlled English language media in Pattaya are notoriously unreliable. Foreigners start online newspapers to curry favour with local police and government officials, earn respectability and sometimes to deal with their enemies. Flowers is no exception and makes frequent presentations to police and city officials.
The Pattaya People newspaper group is run by a Dane, Nils Colov, who, prior to his arrival in Thailand, was convicted and jailed for pimping in Copenhagen. Nils also rose to be leader of the ex-pat police volunteers.
He heavily promoted in his paper and on his news channel the property projects in Thailand of British con-man David Ames, who was jailed in 2022 for 12 years for conning investors out of over £220 million in a Carribean resort.
There was no redress to victims in Thailand.
The Pattaya Times was the baby of an American called Drew Noyes, who used it for extortion. Noyes fled Thailand back to North Carolina, after being convicted and sentenced to three years jail for extortion. He had got bail and his passport back while appealing his sentence and fled back to Wilmingtpn. North Carp;ina.
Neither Bryan Flowers nor Adam Judd, the ‘editorial director’ of the Pattaya News replied to requests for comment. Adam Judd was formerly manager of the ‘Sexy in the City’ bar in Soi 6, part of Flower’s Nightwish Group.
Adam Howell, also 43, from Saanichton, British Columbia said his lawyers had advised him not to comment other than saying he is contesting the libel case.
The court had aceepted a not guilty plea and would sit on June 3rd.
Meanwhile in the mafia bar wars in Pattaya rival bars continue to try to lure sex workers from each other’s business.
This includes parking vehicles outside the bars of rivals displaying more attractive base rates for ‘hostesses’ and ‘coyotes’ and ‘PRs’ – different classes of sex workers.
Despite his claimed contacts Flowers failed in his bid to city hall to declare Soi 6 a traffic free street to stop this behaviour.
Cover Photo: Bryan Flowers giving an interview during Covid when he tried to monetise his sex workers on webcam. Here he demonstrates how he bought some phallic shaped glasses. Viewers could pay to buy the young women a drink: Picture chit-chat Andrew & Andy.
