January 2016
TWENTY FIVE YEARS OF MURDER IN THAILAND PART I
THAILAND’S MURDER HISTORY FROM A BRITISH FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT’S VIEW INTRODUCTION: Following the controversial death sentences on the young Burmese men Wai Phyo and Zaw Lin in Koh Samui for the murders last year on Koh Tao of Hannah Witheridge and Davild Miller, I have been asked to detail the controversial cases where flagrant breaches of […]
“WE WILL CATCH THE CYBER MEN” say Thai Police under attack for Koh Tao murder investigation
“It’s no problem. Thai Police are excellent’ “No they could not find a murderer in the same room” – says wife of victim in unsolved murder. “We have killed J(T)awad” announcement on SMS – two hours after murder but before police were called”. ONLY IN THAILAND The technical know-how of the Royal Thai Police subject […]
KOH TAO VERDICT BRINGS OUT VICTIMS OF THAI JUSTICE
SOME OLD WOUNDS, SOME NEW ONES, COME TO THE FORE AS CONTROVERSIAL MURDER TRIAL ROW CONTINUES As the row over the conviction and death sentences of two young Burmese for the murders of Britons Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the Thai cisland of Koh Tao continued to boil – it has become apparent that […]