THAI POLICE RE-ENACT KOH TAO MURDER SCENE ‘VERY SATISFIED WITH INVESTIGATION’ BUT BURMESE SAY ‘THEY DID NOT DO IT’ Two Burmese migrant labourers, who police say have confessed to the brutal murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller, were today ordered to take part in a reconstruction of the murder scene – comically one holding […]
Thai Police today said that a 21-year old Burmese bar worker has confessed to the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the holiday island of Koh Tao. Burmese suspects share a at about 10.30 pm motorbike behind Sairee Beach, Koh Tao. Win is No 1 sandwiched between his friends – Picture Royal Thai […]
COMMENT: PERHAPS IT’S TIME TO GIVE THE THAI POLICE A BREAK! (Update. This article was clearly an aberration. But I am leaving it up as a lesson to myself) The international press has pulled off the Koh Tao murder story now, perplexed, bored, and some downright pee’d off. But despite the repetitive promises of the […]
SENSATIONAL WITNESS BRIBERY AND COERCION ALLEGATIONS THROW SPANNER IN WORKS OF CONTROVERSIAL THAI MURDER INVESTIGATION. BUT IT COULD BE ATTEMPT TO BLOW INVESTIGATION. (Updated October 2014) Members of the SUN football team closely behind Hannah and friends Thai police investigating the killers of Britons Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the island of Koh Tao […]
Local holding hoe identical to murder weapon Insensitive locals linked to tourism on the Thai holiday island of Phuket are continuing to post questionable pictures on the social media which might make foreigners ill at ease and are open to misconception. One particular man about town has posted a picture of himself holding a garden […]
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 – […]
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 […]
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 […]
TALKS WITH SONGWRITER OF EVIL MAN IN KRABI A young American student, who said she was raped in Krabi seven weeks before the Dutch model whose ordeal was brought home to Thailand by her father’s musical video protest, has broken her silence on her ordeal. And like the 19-year-old Dutch victim in the video ‘Evil […]
ROADIE AND SECURITY MAN FOR TRAVELLING MUSICIANS WAS SAFE ONLY BEHIND BARS. (PIC:Nui in helmet – for fear of attack – shows police where he raped and murdered Cartoon – Khao Sod) A mystery man with no ID has confessed not only to the brutal rape and murder of a six-year-old girl in Bangkok but […]
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.