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 […]
GANGLAND BRIT ROBBERS WERE NOT ‘DUMB AND DUMBER’ THAI IMMIGRATION POLICE RELEASE MAN WANTED FOR MASSIVE UK FRAUD ————– GANGLAND BRITAIN IN THAILAND (CONTINUED) While Thailand’s military government claims to be on a crusade against corruption, and a lot of Thai people have swallowed this hook line and sinker, Brits in Thailand continue to suffer […]
Police in Thailand have demonstrated the unique sign language which has enabled them to keep a lid on crime. It was revealed in a demonstration by Lt. General Sanit Mahatavorn to vocational students in Bangkok earlier this week. From ‘Khao Sod’ ‘Make money – not arrests#. The new signs are not intended to actually stop […]
CASE FOR YOUNG BURMESE HIT BY FACTIONALISM The defence team in the Koh Tao murder case has denied what it describes as damaging claims made in a story on the Thai Visa forum in Thailand – sourced from the Samui Times website. Lawyers for the young Burmese men Wai Phyo and Zaw Lin have issued […]
BUT DEFENCE SHY OVER BRINGING THAILAND’S POLICE LABORATORY INTO DISREPUTE A summary of the appeal by the ‘Koh Tao Two’ against conviction and the death sentence for the murders of British tourists Hannah Witheridge and David Miller appears to totally demolish a sloppy prosecution case in the controversial trial in Thailand. The appeal highlights blatant […]
STOP THAILAND’S QUALITY TESTING OF EXPORTS IF POLICE DO NOT COME CLEAN ON DNA, SAY EXPERTS Thai police are to be reported to an international regulator over their conduct in the investigation of two young Burmese men for the murders of Britons Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on a Thai holiday island. (EVENING STANDARD) International legal and […]
‘I KNOW I WILL DIE TRYING’ The publisher and editor of the Samui Times online newspaper has returned to Britain after being troubled by the trial and guilty verdict against the two young Burmese Wai Phyo and Zaw Lin for the murders of Britons Hannah Witheridge and David Miller. Suzanne Buchanan was reported to be […]
SOME OLD WOUNDS, SOME NEW ONES, COME TO THE FORE AS CONTROVERSIAL MURDER TRIAL ROW CONTINUES As the row over the conviction and death sentences of two young Burmese for the murders of Britons Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the Thai cisland of Koh Tao continued to boil – it has become apparent that […]
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 […]
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.