Drummond's 9 May 2026 Email to Bryan's Former Solicitors
On 9 May 2026 at 14:47, Andrew Drummond emailed Bryan Flowers' former UK solicitors with a dozen provable falsehoods and threatened a complaint to the Solicitors Regulation Authority if they refused to disclose client information. This page documents the email and rebuts every false claim, line by line. The recipient firm's name has been redacted throughout, per the client's instruction; the unredacted original is held on file by current counsel (Defamation Guard Law).
Why This Email Matters
- Post-warning escalation. Drummond was formally interviewed and warned by Wiltshire Police. This is the second documented post-warning escalation, after the Nick Dean email of April 2026. Under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, continuing course of conduct after police intervention is exactly the pattern that strengthens a harassment case. See /legal — Post-Police-Interview Harassment Evidence.
- Coercive use of regulator. Threatening an SRA referral to extract privileged client information — or to force solicitors to confirm or deny a representation relationship — is itself coercive conduct, and the kind of behaviour the SRA itself treats as gaming the regulator.
- Self-defeating admission. Drummond himself writes that the campaign-record site “seems to have been created at the time he was in your employ” — conceding in writing that the documentation existed under legal representation, which is precisely the factual claim his whole email is trying to undermine.
- Inverts the complaint direction. Drummond frames the Wiltshire Police matter as “Bryan's complaint stamped ‘no further action’”. In fact Bryan is the complainant in the harassment matter; Drummond is the subject; Drummond was the one interviewed and warned. ‘No further action’ on one filing is not the end of a continuing harassment matter — and this very email is fresh evidence of it.
TL;DR — Drummond's claims vs. the record
Twelve claims in the 9 May 2026 email; twelve point-by-point rebuttals follow. The full email is reproduced verbatim below the table.
| Claim | Verdict |
|---|---|
| Bryan ‘seems not to be proceeding with libel proceedings preferring to commission or construct himself a series of internet attack smear hubs’. | FALSE |
| Drummond refers to Bryan in the context of ‘his involvement in the sex trade in Thailand’. | FALSE |
| Adam Howell was ‘persuaded by Flowers to part with US$460,000’. | MISLEADING |
| Howell ‘provided documentary and witness support to my articles’. | MISLEADING |
| ‘A number of people have also come forward to describe how they have been put out of business by Flowers, a true internet warrior.’ | VAGUE SMEAR |
| ‘Flowers has employed Pakistani agents from fivver.com’. | FABRICATION |
| ‘Flowers … created some 50 websites … to personally attack me’. | FABRICATION |
| ‘A You Tube channel called ‘lyingsporran’ to personally attack me’. | FABRICATION |
| ‘This doxing website www.andrewdrummondaddress.com’. | FABRICATION |
| Bryan’s complaint to Wiltshire Police was ‘stamped ‘no further action’’. | MISLEADING |
| The site ‘seems to have been created at the time he was in your employ’. | SELF-DEFEATING |
| ‘Failure to answer will result in a statement to the SRA.’ | INTIMIDATION TACTIC |
The 9 May 2026 Email, as Sent
Reproduced exactly as sent. The recipient firm's name has been redacted per the client's instruction. The unredacted original is held on file by current counsel.
From: Andrew Drummond <andrew@andrew-drummond.com> Sent: 09 May 2026 14:47 To: HelpLine <helpline@[redacted].co.uk> Subject: Bryan Stephen Flowers Dear Sir/Madame, I am a retired British journalist currently living in Wiltshire with my three children, to whom last year you issued a letter claiming damages and an apology for a series of articles I had written concerning your client (possibly former client) Bryan Flowers and his involvement in the sex trade in Thailand. In any event he seems not to be proceeding with libel proceedings preferring to commission or construct himself a series on internet attack smear hubs against myself and a Canadian investor called Adam Howell who had been persuaded by Flowers to part with US$460,000 who provided documentary and witness support to my articles. As a result of my publications a number of people have also come forward to describe how they have been put out of business by Flowers, a true internet warrior. So far Flowers has employed Pakistani agents from fivver.com, and created some 50 websites, and a You Tube channel called 'lyingsporran' to personally attack me. Flowers' latest attack against myself is the following website. All 21 Drummond Articles + 21 Rebuttals | Drummond-Howell Campaign Record You will notice on the 'all 21 articles page' he states a follows under the headline 'Legal' All content on this site is factual, evidence-based, and prepared under legal guidance. Legal representation provided by [Former solicitors]. This site exercises the right of reply and freedom of expression. All rights reserved under applicable defamation and privacy statutes. Article 10 ECHR rights formally noticed. No waiver of any legal rights is intended or implied. Last updated: April 2026 He makes a similar statement on his victim's statement page and also as a banner. Counselled by [Former solicitors]. Founded 18 February 2025 Last updated: April 2022. Trust & Verification. In this article he gives a false implication of my correspondences with you, but it seems to have been created at the time he was in your employ, and before his complaint to Wiltshire police was stamped 'no further action.' Would you please confirm or deny that Flowers is still your client and whether you advised him to create this website and make the allegations therein. The site is neither factual, or evidence based, and there is absolutely no indication it was conducted under legal guidance. Could you also confirm or deny you gave legal advice regarding some 50 websites Mr. Flowers has created with my name in the title, or with Adam Howell's name in the title - including this doxing website www.andrewdrummondaddress.com Failure to answer will result in a statement to the SRA. Yours Sincerely Andrew Drummond
The Twelve Claims — Point-by-Point
Each item below quotes Drummond's exact words, states the verdict, gives the truth supported by the public record, and links to the underlying evidence on this site.
“Bryan ‘seems not to be proceeding with libel proceedings preferring to commission or construct himself a series of internet attack smear hubs’.”
The truth: The Pre-Action Protocol Letter of Claim was served on Andrew Drummond on 13 August 2025 (25 pages). An updated Letter of Claim was served on 18 February 2026 after Drummond’s only substantive reply (an unsubstantiated ‘wrong jurisdiction’ assertion) and after he published at least 10 further articles in the intervening period. Representation has since transferred to Defamation Guard Law; the matter is open and active. The public campaign record is a parallel right-of-reply exercise documented under legal guidance, not a substitute for proceedings.
“Drummond refers to Bryan in the context of ‘his involvement in the sex trade in Thailand’.”
The truth: Every iteration of this framing has been formally rebutted. UK ACRO and Royal Thai Police certificates confirm zero criminal record. Police records from Pattaya City, Banglamung, Tourist Police, and CSD confirm zero investigations against Bryan Flowers. Thai DBD shows lawful business registration. The Flirt Bar case (involving his wife Punnipa and staff) is under appeal with documented evidence of police coercion and the use of another person’s ID by the complainant. Bryan has not managed day-to-day bar operations since 2018.
“Adam Howell was ‘persuaded by Flowers to part with US$460,000’.”
The truth: This is a civil commercial dispute over an informal investment in the Night Wish Group — not a fraud or persuasion-by-deception event. The full financial framing, the lack of any criminal complaint by Howell on this point, and Howell’s parallel record as a serial crypto scammer (SuperDoge rug pull; DopeCoin pump-and-dump) are documented at the dedicated evidence page below. Howell was convicted of criminal defamation in Thailand on 28 August 2025 (6-month suspended sentence) and has fled to Dubai to evade three further criminal cases and one civil case.
“Howell ‘provided documentary and witness support to my articles’.”
The truth: Adam Howell is the SOLE source for all 21 Drummond articles — a single, convicted, partial source. Drummond himself admitted this in writing in his 2 December 2025 article (‘we were contacted by Howell who unloaded his files’). Audio recordings used to give the articles credibility were forensically analysed and found to contain at least 4 splice points (selective editing). There is no independent corroborating witness.
“‘A number of people have also come forward to describe how they have been put out of business by Flowers, a true internet warrior.’”
The truth: No names. No business names. No dates. No documents. No evidence of any kind. The claim is an unfalsifiable rhetorical assertion of the form Drummond habitually deploys when no sourceable fact exists. Bryan has not managed day-to-day bar operations since 2018; the framing of him as an ‘internet warrior’ putting others out of business has no factual anchor and is itself defamatory.
“‘Flowers has employed Pakistani agents from fivver.com’.”
The truth: This is invented. The campaign record and its associated source domains are operated by Bryan Flowers and his team. No Fiverr freelancers — from Pakistan or anywhere else — have been engaged to attack Andrew Drummond. The pattern of asserting an unverifiable foreign-agent boogeyman is consistent with the broader strategy of attaching racialised colour to bare assertions when no actual evidence exists.
“‘Flowers … created some 50 websites … to personally attack me’.”
The truth: The public record shows approximately 10 source domains, all of which have been openly consolidated into this single archive. The domains are listed by name and purpose on /about. None of them are anonymous, hidden, or coordinated through proxy agents. ‘Some 50 websites’ has no basis in fact and is contradicted by the public, named, openly-attributed source list this campaign maintains.
“‘A You Tube channel called ‘lyingsporran’ to personally attack me’.”
The truth: No such channel exists that is attributable to Bryan Flowers. Drummond offers no URL, no channel ID, no upload history, and no content reference. The bare assertion is contradicted by basic verification: anyone can check YouTube and confirm there is no Bryan-Flowers-operated ‘lyingsporran’ channel attacking Drummond.
“‘This doxing website www.andrewdrummondaddress.com’.”
The truth: Bryan Flowers does not own www.andrewdrummondaddress.com. Drummond produces no WHOIS record, hosting reference, screenshot, archive snapshot, or any evidence linking the domain to Bryan — because the link does not exist. The bare assertion that an unrelated domain belongs to Bryan, sent in writing to his former solicitors as if it were established fact, is precisely the kind of falsehood the rest of this page documents. (Drummond’s residence in Wiltshire is, in any case, something Drummond himself has openly disclosed across his own publications for years.)
“Bryan’s complaint to Wiltshire Police was ‘stamped ‘no further action’’.”
The truth: Drummond was formally INTERVIEWED by Wiltshire Police about the harassment campaign and officially warned. After the warning he escalated rather than desisting — he sent a fresh derogatory email to a third party (Nick Dean) containing false sexualised allegations and a false claim that police had ‘laughed’ at the complaint. That email was forwarded to the investigating sergeant. The 9 May 2026 email to former solicitors is the second documented post-warning escalation. Under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, continuing course of conduct after police intervention is precisely the kind of pattern that strengthens a harassment case — the opposite of what Drummond’s framing implies. ‘No further action’ on one filing is not the end of a continuing matter.
“The site ‘seems to have been created at the time he was in your employ’.”
The truth: Drummond is correct — and this destroys his own framing. By conceding that the campaign-record site existed while Bryan was under legal representation, Drummond is admitting on the record that the documentation was not a renegade unilateral attack: it was prepared under counsel. That is the defining factual claim Drummond’s entire email is trying to undermine — and he concedes it in writing.
“‘Failure to answer will result in a statement to the SRA.’”
The truth: Using a threatened regulatory complaint to pressure solicitors into disclosing client information — or into confirming or denying a representation relationship — is itself coercive conduct. The Solicitors Regulation Authority exists to regulate solicitors, not to be weaponised by third parties against the clients they advise. The threat is documented here in writing and forms part of the harassment evidence pack.
How This Email Fits the Continuing Course of Conduct
Protection from Harassment Act 1997. The 9 May 2026 email is part of a documented pattern of behaviour after Drummond was interviewed and warned by Wiltshire Police: it follows the April 2026 Nick Dean email — also a third-party communication containing fresh derogatory statements — and sits alongside the continuing publication of further defamatory articles. UK case law treats post-warning third-party communications as a strong signal of continuing course of conduct.
Indirect harassment. Targeting professionals around the complainant (solicitors, associates, witnesses) to apply pressure indirectly is recognised as a form of harassment in its own right. The 2025–2026 pattern has now produced documented attacks on civil-case witnesses (Nick Dean, Fernando Bauab Levy), business associates (paid-troll documentation), and now legal advisors.
Coercive regulatory threat. Threatening an SRA complaint to extract privileged information — or to force solicitors to confirm or deny a representation relationship — is gaming the regulator. The SRA exists to uphold professional standards, not to be weaponised by third parties against clients.
Self-incrimination on the record. Drummond's own words — “at the time he was in your employ” — concede that the campaign-record site existed under legal representation. That single phrase contradicts his broader email, which insists the site “is neither factual, nor evidence based, and there is absolutely no indication it was conducted under legal guidance”. The two claims are irreconcilable; the first defeats the second.
Summary of conclusions consistent with the legal assessment previously prepared by counsel.
Where This Evidence Goes
- Forwarded to current counsel Defamation Guard Law for inclusion in the open harassment matter.
- Logged in the post-warning escalation file alongside the Nick Dean April 2026 email.
- Published here as the public record version so the email is indexed, citable, and rebutted on the open web.
Related Documentation
Legal & Accountability →
Pre-Action Letter, ECHR notice, Post-Police-Interview escalation
Drummond's Credentials Audit →
Forensic audit of the 'award-winning veteran investigative journalist' framing
Pension Loss & Conflict of Interest →
The fund his platform advertised that took his own pension
Fundraising Archive — 145 Appeals →
Documented donation appeals and the scrubbed PayPal button
Witness Intimidation →
Nick Dean and Fernando Bauab Levy — prior third-party attacks
False Investor Claims →
The US$460,000 commercial dispute, in full
Paid to Troll →
Howell admits paying Drummond to attack Bryan
Catalog of Lies →
Every provably false statement with rebuttal
Verification Methodology →
How every claim on this site is sourced
About / Source Domains →
The ten openly-attributed source sites consolidated here
Adam Howell Profile →
Convicted defamer; serial scammer; sole source