Koh Tao

‘WE BEAT THEM WITH BLUNT END OF HOE – WE WERE DRUNK. WE DID NOT MEAN TO KILL THEM’ BUT  THEY WERE ‘BEATEN AND THREATENED WITH TORTURE’ Two Burmese men accused of the barbaric killings of David Hannah and Hannah Witheridge on the Thai island of Koh Tao – have admitted to lawyers they did […]

As international human rights agencies seeks clarification on a controversial Thai murder investigation, staff at the Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok send a team to Koh Samui A Burmese migrant worker ngo also has sent a team to Koh Samui where the suspects are being held. But police chief Police General Somyot Pumpunmuang denies they are scapegoats. And […]

The last article on this site “Boiling water and beatings, claim Burmese workers” has been deliberately mistranslated and is currently circulating around Thai media and social networking sites stating that I wrote that the men under arrest had been tortured. This is of course NOT a claim I have made. I have no knowledge of […]

PLEASE DON’T CLOSE THIS CASE! Three of the out of group of nine Burmese who were friends of the two who now face the death penalty in Thailand for murder of two British backpackers were tortured by Thai police six days ago, it was claimed today. Praying and begging for forgiveness (Khao Sod)  Or is […]

THAI POLICE RE-ENACT KOH TAO MURDER SCENE ‘VERY SATISFIED WITH INVESTIGATION’ BUT BURMESE SAY ‘THEY DID NOT DO IT’ Two Burmese migrant labourers, who police say have confessed to the brutal murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller, were today ordered to take part in a reconstruction of the murder scene – comically one holding […]

Thai Police today said that a 21-year old Burmese bar worker has confessed to the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the holiday island of Koh Tao. Burmese suspects share a at about 10.30 pm motorbike behind Sairee Beach, Koh Tao. Win is No 1 sandwiched between his friends – Picture Royal Thai […]

POLICE CHIEF REMOVED – NOW ISLANDERS WANT FEES TO PREVENT MURDERS OF TOURISTS Flying Sporran Comment Well here we go again. They are doing their best to spoil my prediction that there might be a logical ‘Agatha Christie’ ending to the Koh Tao murders. Today the Nation newspaper is reporting that the Koh Parish Council, […]

COMMENT: PERHAPS IT’S TIME TO GIVE THE THAI POLICE A BREAK! (Update. This article was clearly an aberration. But I am leaving it up as a lesson to myself) The international press has pulled off the Koh Tao murder story now, perplexed, bored, and some downright pee’d off.  But despite the repetitive promises of the […]

SENSATIONAL WITNESS BRIBERY AND COERCION ALLEGATIONS THROW SPANNER IN WORKS OF CONTROVERSIAL THAI MURDER INVESTIGATION. BUT IT COULD BE ATTEMPT TO BLOW INVESTIGATION. (Updated October 2014) Members of the SUN football team closely behind Hannah and friends Thai police investigating the killers of Britons Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the island of Koh Tao […]

Local holding hoe identical to murder weapon  Insensitive locals linked to tourism on the Thai holiday island of Phuket are continuing to post questionable pictures on the social media which might make foreigners ill at ease and are open to misconception. One particular man about town has posted a picture of himself holding a garden […]