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Andrew Drummond

THAI MURDERS MAY BE COPYCAT

 FISHERMAN RECALLED IN KOH TAO MURDER HUNT LAST CCTV OF HANNAH WITHERIDGE Thai police investigating the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the holiday island of Koh Tao now fear that that they may be a copycat attack of the rape and murder of a Reading University student on the nearby island of […]

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 […]

FURY AS BRIT ON ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGE WALKS FREE FROM THAI COURT

 YEARS ON TEACHER STILL IN A COMA Friends of Adam Pickles the 42-year-head of English at an international school in Thailand reacted with fury today as another Briton who allegedly attacked him and put him in a coma walked free from a Thai court. Adam Pickles, from Bradford, was attacked in Pattaya three years ago […]

LEAKED REPORT SUGGESTS BOTH HANNAH AND DAVID FOUGHT OFF THEIR ATTACKERS

BUT THAI PRESS FINGER OF ACCUSATION RETURNS TO BRIT – AS TWO ARE STOPPED FROM LEAVING THAILAND. ‘Hannah was gripping blond hair before she died’ – claim (but perhaps not as dramatic as it sounds) Murder victim David Miller likely struggled with his attacker in the sea off the Thai holiday island of Koh Tao […]

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 […]

MURDER INVESTIGATION STUMBLES AS THAI POLICE SEEK MORE SUSPECTS

THAI POLICE RECEIVE PRIME MINISTERIAL PRESSURE AND MIXED MESSAGES OVER MURDERS ON ‘PARADISE’ ISLAND Thai police appeared to be left without a murder suspect again last night – after three Burmese immigrant labourers were reportedly released from custody on the island of Koh Tao. And the big question is the investigation going the same way […]

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 […]