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 […]
SCOT DEPARTS THAILAND FEARING LYNCHING AS HE CLAIMS ISLAND MAFIA THREATENED TO HANG HIM FROM ‘A TREE IN THE HILLS’. As Thai police admitted that all DNA testing had failed to find a match in the investigation into the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller a young Scots musician and busker TODAY fled the […]
ANOTHER RED HERRING? Thai PBS Television claimed today that one of the killers of David Miller and Hannah Witheridge stole Miller shorts after the murders on the holiday island of Koh Tao on Monday. PBS claims that CCTV footage shows a suspicious character running past the camera from the direction of the crime scene. The […]
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 […]
‘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’ […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
Andrew Drummond is a British independent journalist and occasional television documentary maker. He is a former Fleet Street, London, journalist having worked at the Evening Standard, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, News of the World, Observer and The Times.