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MUM WHO TOOK UP DAUGHTER’S RAPE CASE FLEES THAILAND FOR SECOND TIME
GUNMAN SHOUTED ‘GET OUT OF TOWN’ – CLAIM A Norwegian mother fighting to prosecute the rapist of her daughter in Thailand has fled the country for the second time after she claims her husband was threatened with a gun and ordered to take her home. Anca Haakestad fled last Sunday with her husband, just days […]
KOH TAO ‘RAPIST’ WAS ‘SERIAL SEX ATTACKER’ – CLAIM
MORE ASSAULTS, PACK ATTACKS, AND RAPE CLAIMS ON THAI HOLIDAY ISLAND A Thai barman linked to the latest tourist rape allegations on the Thai island of Koh Tao had been accused of several attacks on women on the island while a juvenile. And yesterday he was reported to be in court charged with the brutal attack […]
IS THIS THE FACE OF THE KOH TAO RAPIST?
NOT ON THE EVIDENCE OF THIS STORY! The Samui Times has used this man’s picture as the suspected rapist in an alleged rape of a woman on the island of Koh Tao in June. But that’s all they’ve presented and the fact that the latest victim had been drinking in his bar, well they think […]
WHAT NEXT IN THE KOH TAO MURDER CASE?
COMMENT: HAND OVER THE FORENSIC LAB TO INDEPENDENT PROFESSIONALS The confirmation by the Court of Appeal of the conviction and death sentence of the two Burmese men, Wai Phyo and Zaw Lin, for the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the Thai island of Koh Tao will not have surprised many. The fact […]
KOH TAO MURDER AND BRITAIN’S POLICY OF APPEASEMENT
WE’VE SEEN IT ALL BEFORE PAGE ONE COMMENT The brave and shocking letter written by Laura Witheridge, whose younger sister Hannah was murdered with David Miller on Koh Tao in Thailand, has as predicted caused a rumpus in Britain with just about every major media outlet covering the story – from the red tops to […]
TWENTY FIVE YEARS OF MURDER IN THAILAND PART I
THAILAND’S MURDER HISTORY FROM A BRITISH FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT’S VIEW INTRODUCTION: Following the controversial death sentences on the young Burmese men Wai Phyo and Zaw Lin in Koh Samui for the murders last year on Koh Tao of Hannah Witheridge and Davild Miller, I have been asked to detail the controversial cases where flagrant breaches of […]
THE KOH TAO MURDERS – IF THE VERDICT WAS WRONG TIME WILL NOT TELL
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 […]
THAI JUSTICE ON TRIAL AGAIN AS BURMESE AWAIT THEIR FATE IN ‘PARADISE’
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 […]
BRITISH WOMAN RAPED BECAUSE SHE WAS DRUNK –THAI POLICE
AND WE DID NOT ENFORCE LICENSING LAWS A Thai police chief has blamed the rape of a British woman on holiday in Thailand on the fact that she was drunk – and said his men would take more care now to enforce licensing hours. The 24-year-woman was raped at the end of last week after […]
THE ‘CHILLING EFFECT’ – KOH TAO SUSPECTS SACRIFICED FOR BRITISH GOVERNMENT INTERESTS?
‘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 […]
