Koh Tao
KOH TAO MURDERS: THAI POLICE NEED HELP WITH DNA
BUT THAT’S GOOD NEWS! FLYING SPORRAN’S WEEKEND DIARY COMMENT Woraphan Tuvichien – Press Conference – TBS The Foreign Press corps has in the main put away its buckets and spades and stopped digging on the island of Koh Tao..A smattering remains. I say ‘stopped digging’ but there was not much digging to do – […]
‘IT WAS NOT ME!’ SAYS SON OF VILLAGE HEAD MAN IN THAI MURDER INVESTIGATION
NOW THAILAND’S MILITARY RULER SENDS TROOPS TO MURDER ISLAND Businessman and local police – by Sean McAnna who thought they were mafia The son of a Thai person of influence on the Thai holiday island of Koh Tao has denied he was on the run from Thai police today as Thailand’s military ruler deployed his […]
KOH TAO MURDERS – A TASTELESS JOKE BY ISLAND DISC JOCKEYS.
MURDER ISLAND BAR SIGN While Thai police are still pursuing the killers of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller and dismissing mafia allegations someone has had the bad taste to put this notice up on the internet. It is allegedly a sign put up in a bar in Koh Tao which I will not name playing […]
POLICE QUESTION RELATIVE OF ISLAND POWER BROKERS IN KOH TAO MURDER INVESTIGATION
THEY’RE NOT MAFIA. THEY’RE RELATIVES OF THE BOSSES Thai Police investigating the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the island of Koh Tao announced a breakthrough in the murder hunt today today as they questioned the brother of a local island politician – and sought the son of another. But they denied any […]
KO TAO MURDERS – THAILAND’S LEGACY
‘Somewhere in this life there must be a place, an experience, an encounter, that changes everything!’ FLYING SPORRAN’S WEEKEND DIARY These are the opening titles to the film trailer for ‘The Beach’ from the novel by Alex Garland, at one time a backpacker’s bible. ‘The Beach’ in question chosen for the film was ‘Maya Beach’ […]
DISTRAUGHT FAMILY ARRIVES – BUT MAY NOT SEE CLOSURE ON HORRIFIC ISLAND MURDERS
SUSPECTS ZERO – ESCAPE ROUTES OPEN – AND BURMESE TAKE THE BRUNT OF POLICE OPERATIONS. Thai Police were today raiding the homes and workplaces of more Burmese migrant workers on the Thai holiday island of Koh Tao after DNA tests showed no matches with any former suspects in the murders of Britons Hannah Witheridge and […]
KOH TAO MURDERS – FOREIGNERS CLEARED BY DNA
PRESSURE ON THAI POLICE TO END SPECULATION Two men had sex with Hannah Witheridge on the night she died and the DNA on one matched the DNA found on a cigarette discarded nearby. DNA tests also showed no matches with 12 Burmese so far interviewed and no matches with Christopher Ware,25, a travelling companion of […]
BRITS STOPPED AT AIRPORT IN CONNECTION WITH KOH TAO MURDERS
Two British brothers who left the Thai island of Koh Tao where police are investigating the brutal murders of two British back-packers were stopped by police at Suvarnabhumi International airport last night before boarding a London bound flight. The two men believed to be Christopher (left) and James Ware from Jersey – friends of one […]
THAI POLICE HOLD BURMESE FOR QUESTIONING FOR KOH TAO MURDERS
FRIENDS OF VICTIMS HEAD BACK HOME Consul Michael Hancock arriving on Koh Tao Thai Police investigating the murders of backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller were today holding three Burmese workers on the Thai holiday island of Koh Tao after CCTV footage showed an Asian man prowling near the murder spot. wreaths at a spot […]
POLICE SEEK BRITON IN CONNECTION WITH KOH TAO MURDERS
NAKED COUPLE HARDLY KNEW EACH OTHER. Police in Thailand said tonight they wanted to an interview a British man in connection with the brutal murder of two young backpackers on the Thai holiday island of Koh Tao. As the bodies of David Miller, 24, from Jersey, and Hannah Witheridge, 23, from Norfolk, were stored in […]
