David Miller

YOUNG BURMESE KEEPING UP THEIR SPIRITS IN JAIL IN KOH SAMUI Zaw Lin and Wei Phyo, the two Burmese migrant workers being held for the murders of Britons Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on Koh Tao are reported today to be keeping up their spirits in prison in Koh Sanui, While it is not the […]

ASSASSINS IMPUNITY IN THAILAND’S TOP HOLIDAY PROVINCE A serial killer is on the loose in Thailand but neither the Thai authorities or police have put the matter on top of their agenda. And of course it’s not really making headline news as the victims are all peasants. To be more precise they are all members […]

The Migrant Worker Rights Network has launched a new appeal to raise cash to defend the two young Burmese migrant workers Zaw Lin and Wei, both aged 21, who have been accused of the murders of Britons Hannah Witheridge and David Miller and the rape of Hannah on the Thai island of Koh Tao last […]

FOREIGNERS MISLEAD ABOUT MAFIA ON THAI ISLAND – CLAIM The Mayor of a Thai island in Thailand has launched an attack on the British media claiming the island’s reputation is being damaged by ‘spurious’ news reports. Chaiyan Turasakul , Mayor of Koh Tao told the Khao Sod (Fresh News) newspaper in Thailand that he was […]

ONE DEATH TOO FAR?  A 23-year-old British woman was found dead on the Thai island of Koh Tao early yesterday leaving Thailand’s military controlled government and Tourism Authority with a potential public relations problem after the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller last year. For Christina Hannersley a politically aware and perhaps budding journalist […]

Sean McAnna leaving Koh Tao Koh Phangan island police in Thailand have ruled there is no foul play in the suicide of a French national who apparently hanged himself in a small rented beach hut in Koh Tao district. This may have sent a chill down the spines of people who heard the account of […]

Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary Yesterday in the UK the Guardian published a very good article about the plight of the two young Burmese charged with the murder of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the Thai island of Kho Tao. The article carried criticism of Scotland Yard and the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in […]

“It was terrifying. My boyfriend was dead. He was staring me in the face and not breathing – but all the clinic boss would say was ‘He’s just sleeping’. A young Australian woman has told how she fled the Thai island of Koh Phangan after her fiancé died in front of her while undergoing a […]

There has been widespread publicity over the forthcoming trial of the two Burmese migrant workers who will be asked today to plead guilty to murder and rape charges relating to the barbaric killings of Britons Hannah Witheridge and David Miller – and also extremely silly ones of entering the country and working illegally something quite […]

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION TO POLICE: ‘ANSWER TORTURE CHARGES PLEASE’ One of many tasteless pictures appearing on Thai Facebook pages The two young Burmese men charged with the murder of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the Thai island of Koh Tao were hit, suffocated with plastic bags, and threatened they would be drowned if they […]