MacMafia have failed to jail a journalist who revealed the mysterious death of their business partner.

MacMafia have failed to jail a journalist who revealed the mysterious death of their business partner.Now reporter Andrew Drummond is delivering a dossier to the Thai prime minister revealing his investigation into James Lumsden, 59, from Falkirk, and Gordon May, 67, from Edinburgh, who are involved in Pattaya's "Boyz Town" sex industry. The newsman had probed Lumsden and May's business in a series of Sunday Mail investigations. He told how, in April 1990, their business partner Iain Macdonald, 28, from Inverness, died in a Thai hotel fire.One month before his death, he had bequeathed his 50 per cent share in May and Lumsden's Boyz Boyz Boyz club and the Ambiance Hotel - worth £250,000 - to May's boyfriend, a Thai go-go dancer.
A second businessman, Kevin Quill, 39, from Yorkshire, also invested money with Lumsden and May but was jailed for sixyears for drug possession in 2000, despite a senior Thai police officer saying he had been framed. Three judges last week cleared Drummond, who faced being thrown into prison if he had lost the gruelling nine-year battle.The judges ruled: "The defendant was doing his job as a journalist, making facts public for foreigners doing business in Thailand. "There is nothing defamatory in what he wrote." Lumsden - who's drag stage name is Madame Jim - and May have been active since 1989 in an area of Pattaya called Boyz Town.Drummond, 58, said: "The Thai prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva will know exactly what I am talking about. He has already taken progressive steps against corruption."A year after opening Boyz Boyz Boyz with £250,000, Lumsden and May invited Macdonald, the son of a former provost of Inverness, to invest another £250,000 in their business. But when he mysteriously died, Drummond found he had made a will only a month earlier, leaving all his Thai investments to a man called Supan Kampanya.Drummond said: "I tracked the Thai man down. He was unhappy and scared of the influence of Gordon May.
"He had previously been a gay go-go dancer at Boyz Boyz Boyz and was May's boyfriend. He said all he got was 5000 baht - about £100.
"I am, of course, very pleased. But this is small consolation for the families of lain Macdonald or Kevin Quill. Their lives have been devastated."Marwaan Macan-Markar, president of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand, said: "We welcome this court ruling in favour of Andrew Drummond, particularly since the alleged libels involved were criminal offences under existing Thai law.
"The verdicts demonstrate a fundamental respect for investigative reporting in the public interest. This is a good day for journalism and the law in Thailand."

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