Another Brit ‘living the life’ ends it in controversial Thai tourist destination. Another Briton has been found dead on the Thai holiday island of Koh Tao and has been named as Luke Miller of Newport, Isle of Wight. Miller is reported to have died yesterday after jumping into the pool attached to the Sunset bar […]
By the six o’clock BBC evening news in London yesterday the mews that Wai Phyo and Zaw Lin had been found guilty and sentenced to death was well down the agenda, coming after a car crash with one fatality, floods in Cumbria and a bus crash with no fatalities. Any doubt about the prosecution of […]
With just two days to go before the court in Koh Samui, Thailand, returns a verdict on the two young Burmese accused of the murders of David Miller and Hannah Witheridge on Koh Tao the defence pro-bono lawyers, appointed by the Lawyers Council of Thailand, and the Migrant Workers Rights Network have put out a […]
‘I feel considerable unease’ – Justice Green Case No: HQ15X0311 Queen Bench Division, High Court of Justice The two young Burmese accused of the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the Thai island of Koh Tao were sacrificed by the British authorities in the interests of continued police co-operation between the Royal Thai […]
Article removed Yesterday in this slot we published the views of an online publisher with 18 years experience in the Samui archipelago on the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on Koh Tao. The publisher has been in contact and asked for removal of this article on the grounds that the comments were ‘private […]
Jack Hansen-Bartel, with mask, behind Andy Hall, with defence lawyer at court today It seemed a sober moment, perhaps even a warning to the media just as the controversial murder trial of the accused killers of British backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller was due to start on the Thai island of Koh Samui. “The […]
FROM AN ENGLISH CHILDREN’S HOME TO SAMUI COURT As the days draw closer to the day when two young Burmese men go on trial on the Thai island of Koh Samui for the rape and murder of Hannah Witheridge and the murder of David Miller on nearby Koh Tao, and after a young British woman was […]
– KOH TAO MURDERS – Defence team in Koh Tao Murders want DNA checked and how it was gathered checked Defence lawyers for the two 21-year-old Burmese charged with the murder and rape of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the Thai island of Koh Tao are to ask the court for a re-examination of […]
YOUNG BURMESE KEEPING UP THEIR SPIRITS IN JAIL IN KOH SAMUI Zaw Lin and Wei Phyo, the two Burmese migrant workers being held for the murders of Britons Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on Koh Tao are reported today to be keeping up their spirits in prison in Koh Sanui, While it is not the […]
A WORD IN YOUR EAR DEAR MAYOR! An open letter to Chaiyan Turasakul , Mayor of the Thai island of Koh Tao, Dear Mayor, I see you are upset by British media reports over the death of Christina Annersley on your beautiful island of Koh Tao, another young British tourist who has died of natural […]
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.