Koh Tao Murders

‘Grubby Rooms I Can Bare. Grubby Staff – No!’ Here’s some news to start off the day – The Southern Hotels Association according to PBS News wants a hand in controlling the tourists who come to Thailand.  The organization wants ‘quality’ or ‘high spending’ tourists – ‘at an appropriate level to match the capacity with […]

With the arrival in Thailand of the parents of Win Zaw Htun and Zaw Lin the two 21-year-old Burmese migrant labourers accused of the murders of Hannah Witheridge and Win Zaw Htun a fund has now been set up to pay the for the defence in the coming trial. There is widespread disquiet at the […]

INTERPRETER WAS A PANCAKE SALESMEN WHO TOOK VICTIM’S CASH – AND NOW THAI POLICE CASE RESTS ON ‘SUSPECT’ DNA. Thai police tell Win Zaw Htub and Zaw Lin to wai and ask forgiveness Following the complete retraction of the confessions of their suspects and detailed reports of torture under interrogation assisted by a translator whose real […]

HIGH NOON IN THE SAMUI ARCHIPELAGO? Head of Koh Phangan Police – He could join the ‘Outlaws’ British police might be well advised to send two teams to investigate the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller when they take up the offer by Prime Minister General Prauth Chan-ocha. The first time should be the […]

Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary The forthcoming visit of British detectives to Thailand has stirred the imaginations of more than a few – but their visit is unlikely to be the same as the visit to the orient of two US detectives in the film ‘Black Rain’. The cops played by Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia […]

HOME FREE! BRIT WHO SAYS HE WAS TREATED AS SUB-HUMAN AFTER HE REFUSED TO PAY POLICE ‘FEE’  FOR BEING MUGGED IN THAI RESORT “I CAME TO VISIT THE SANCTUARY OF TRUTH. BUT WHAT I FOUND WAS LIARS AND CHEATS” “JUDGE APOLOGISES AS ‘FOREIGN’ INTERPRETER TAKES THE RAP FOR SENDING TOURIST TO JAIL WITHOUT TRIAL” As […]

‘Anybody with half a brain knows it would be blamed on the Burmese’ The young Scottish busker who fled the Thai island of Koh Tao in fear for his life, after he claimed ‘mafia’ figures said they would hang him for the murders of Hannah Witheridge, has broken his silence and commented on the internet. […]

BUT POLICE WARN ‘BE CAREFUL. YOU COULD BE SUED’. The Thai National Commission for Human Rights has provided a hotline and an email for any witnesses who feel they can shed new light on the murders of Britons David Miller and Hannah Witheridge on the island of Koh Tao. But almost simultaneously Deputy Police Commissioner-General […]

(UPDATED) AN APPEAL FOR SANITY, er, and CASH. Due to an increasing number of serious physical threats and other threats to my freedom, which, I guess, would have to be implemented illegally with co-operation of local police, I plan to leave this country next year,  with my three young children, subject to proceedings in hand. […]