British Couple Murdered On Koh Tao

[pdogg]

 

Two foreign tourists were found dead on Sairee beach in Koh Tao island in Surat Thani province Monday morning.

 

The bodies of a female and a male tourists were undressed. They have serious  wounds on their heads, local police said.

 

Police said both  were at their twenties and were believed to be Europeans.

 

A bloodstained hoe was found at the scene.

Forensic police are at the scene to investigate.

http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/62335/

[JaiDee]

Just found that story when I woke up PD, very tragic.

 

  Murder of 2 young people should not happen in paradise! 

[Billy69]

Forensic police are at the scene to investigate.??  

suicide,,,!!??

[JaiDee]

Here's another article from Yahoo Canada  via Bangkok

 

 

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/2-british-tourists-found-battered-death-popular-island-123528622.html

[seven]

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/koh-tao-thailand-david-miller-jersey-hannah-witheridge-named-back-pack-murder-victims-first-1465533

[pdogg]

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/koh-tao-thailand-david-miller-jersey-hannah-witheridge-named-back-pack-murder-victims-first-1465533

 

 

Reports said the island's ferry dock had been closed to prevent potential culprits fleeing the island.

[pdogg]

So tourists can't leave the island and there is a hoe wielding murderer on the loose.

 

 

THAILAND - Police have sealed off the resort island of Koh Tao off Surat Thani province to hunt down killers who brutally murdered a British couple and possibly raped the woman on Sunday night. The 24-year-old victims have been identified as Hannah Witheridge and David Miller.

Last night, one of Miller's friends was detained after he provided conflicting information, Surat Thani police commander Pol Maj General Kiattiphong Kaosam-ang said. There were multiple scratches on the suspect's body and he had a serious wound on his hand.

However, Kiattiphong said surveillance camera footage also showed an Asian man fleeing the scene at 3am, which prompted investigators to initially believe there might be a sole attacker. Police believed he could possibly have been a migrant worker or fishing-trawler crewman.

 See more at: http://news.asiaone.com/news/asia/thailands-koh-tao-sealed-after-2-tourists-brutally-killed

 

 

[Tomcat]

last night on RT News they said they think the suspect had skipped already. The Foreign office have given warnings before about beach gangs here it seems....

[JaiDee]

Now three people from Burma are the main suspects.

 

   Police looking for the British person the murdered couple were traveling with.

[pdogg]

A Brit backpacker was arrested.  He probably should have gotten out of the country before his name got on some sort of police list.

 

 

Surat Thani police yesterday arrested a British tourist after he was suspected to have connection with the deaths of  two fellow Britons in Koh Tao off Surat Thani coast.

 

Police identified the British back packer as Christopher  Alanvare.

 

Police said they arrested him after employees of a resort on the beach told police that Mr Christopher  was seen strolling near the scene where the two British tourists were killed on the night of September 14.

 

Besides they also found a significant evidence which is a blood stain on his clothes.

 

Police said Christopher urgently left the popular diving paradise on the first ferry to the mainland the next day after the murder was discovered.

 

But the police said they are awaiting DNA test to prove the blood stain, and also from DNA samples tested by  the Police Forensic Office if any DNA sample matching DNA found at the scene and the victim’s body.

 

Police have collected DNA samples from suspected foreign workers who lived near the scene for test.

 

Two Britons were discovered nakedly on a blood-stained beach on Koh Tao island last Sunday with deep wounds to the head and face.

 

The pair were attacked with a blood-stained hoe found with their clothes and suspect British girl had been raped.

 

The victims were at a beach party on Sai Ree Beach with about 50 other international trevellers.

 

One resort employee said the bodies were found behind large rocks near the bungalows where they were staying.

 

‘It was the first time this has happened on the island, I have never seen anything like this,’ she said.

 

Tourist Police Division commander Pol Maj-Gen  Apichai Ti-amnart disclosed Wednesday that three Myanmar workers, who were earlier detained for question after being suspected,  have been freed after interrogation showed they were not involved.

 

He also said tourist police yesterday escorted and seen off three British female tourists who came together in the same group with British girl at  Suvarnabhumi airport Tuesday night back to London.

 

They were still shocked with the murder, he said.

 

Ms Witheridge from Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, was with four friends and arrived Wednesday September 10 on the island  where she met Mr Miller, who had been there since August 25.

 

Forensic police chief Pol Maj Gen Pornchai Suthirakun said Wednesday morning that doctors would conduct autopsy on the two Britons’ bodies today to compare with DNA samples collected from suspects.

 

The result would  be known in the afternoon.

 

The bodies of the two Britons arrived at the Police General Hospital yesterday.

 

They were discovered half-naked on a blood-stained beach on Koh Tao island  with deep wounds to the head and face.

http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/british-backpacker-arrested-suspected-murder-fellow-britons-koh-tao/

[Billy69]

LBC.. had an about an hour phone in today about all this and about the crime in Thailand..and what the Thai PM commented about it didn't help at all whats going on in Thailand...n most phone calls to the station was all negative  ..

[pdogg]

 

Laboratory tests of the DNA found at the crime scene where two British tourists were battered to death on Koh Tao on Sunday do not match with the DNA of the suspects held in police custody, including a British national, according to well-informed sources from the National Police Office.

 

Evidences collected from the crime scene that were sent for tests of DNA include three cigarette butts found about 50 metres from where the two British tourists were killed.

 

One cigarette has lipstick mark.  DNA of two people were found in the second cigarette and the DNA of a third person was found in the third cigarette butt.

 

However, the tests show that the DNA found in one cigarette butt match with the DNA found in the semen, said the sources.

 

The sources added that since none of the Myanmar and British suspects had the same DNA with the DNA found in the evidences, police would have to continue their hunt for the real killers who are still at large.

http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/dna-tests-match-suspects-british-tourists-murder/

[Tomcat]

On a related issue about problems in LOS

 

I noticed that the issue of " Suicides" has been raised  in the Western Press as the Police try to keep the lid on other bad news ... there are a lot of poor suckers jumping from Hotel balconies it seems

[pdogg]

LBC.. had an about an hour phone in today about all this and about the crime in Thailand..and what the Thai PM commented about it didn't help at all whats going on in Thailand...n most phone calls to the station was all negative  ..

 

 

Thai PM 'sorry' for 'bikini' insult to British murder victims Prayuth Chan-O-Cha forced to apologise for suggesting beautiful tourists put themselves at risk by wearing bikinis days after two British backpackers were murdered on Koh Tao

The prime minister of Thailand has been forced to apologise for appearing to say that only ugly tourists are safe wearing bikinis in the country - just days after two British backpackers were brutally murdered on a Thai island.

 

Prayuth Chan-O-Cha was reported to say pretty women made themselves more vulnerable to attacks by wearing a bikini after Hannah Witheridge was brutally murdered on Koh Tao.

 

The semi-naked bodies of Ms Witheridge, 23, and fellow traveller David Miller, a 24-year-old University of Leeds graduate, were found on Monday morning on the island’s idyllic Sairee beach.

 

Their brutal murder has shocked Koh Toa, but yesterday Thailand’s leader, who seized power in a military coup in May, said in mangled English that travellers underestimated the possibility of attacks.

 

“There are always problems with tourist safety,” General Prayuth said. “They think our country is beautiful and is safe so they can do whatever they want, they can wear bikinis and walk everywhere.

 

Causing widespread controversy, he added: “Can they be safe in bikinis… unless they are not beautiful?”

 

General Paryuth has since apologised following criticism that his remarks were deeply offensive to the families’ of Ms Witheridge, a qualified speech therapist, and fellow traveller, Mr Miller.

 

"I'm sorry that it hurt people," Prayuth said at a press conference in Bangkok on Thursday.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/thailand/11104206/Thai-PM-sorry-for-bikini-insult-to-British-murder-victims.html

[pdogg]

Full Moon parties are now banned on Ko Tao.

 

Ko Phangan will continue to have Full Moon, Half Moon, and Black Moon raves.

[seven]

 

 

, and Black Moon raves.

Hmmm, i can't wait to attend a black moon rave

[pdogg]

Hmmm, i can't wait to attend a black moon rave

 

Actually, it's quite nice except for the music.

 

It is a small party with maybe about 700 people.

 

Since neither me or my teerak is big on these things though, we bring a few beers from home and go on the beach just next to the party where it is quiter and we sip a beer and perhaps talk to someone who wanders off from the party.

[pdogg]

 

Police will request help from the United States' Federation Bureau of Investigation to test semen found in the body of a female British backpacker brutally murdered on the resort island of Koh Tao this week.

DNA testing technology in Thailand could only identify whether human secretions came from a male or female, said deputy police chief General Somyot Pumpunmuang, while the FBI had "sophisticated technology".

"We will ask the FBI to help identify the DNA in the semen we found - whether it belonged to an Asian or European," he said yesterday.

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Police-seek-help-from-FBI-on-DNA-30243708.html

 

He's on the case.

 

 

[JaiDee]

Now they have asked the FBI not to come after all; after finding out that it has to be an Asian person they told them not to bother.  The keystone cops are running this operation.

[seven]

Now they have asked the FBI not to come after all; after finding out that it has to be an Asian person they told them not to bother.  The keystone cops are running this operation.

A british reporter on the ground described the investigation so far as a joke, but today the top dog police chief flew in from Bkk, and Scotland Yard is expected to assist.

[SiamSam]

Sure sure. The top dog from BKK will enjoy a few days on per diems and will arrange some interesting blow job events for the boys from Scotland Yard and all will get resolved in the usual Thai way and extent for all concerned. 

 

While in Thailand here are my 10 rules:

1) Smile, be pleasant.

2) Don't provoke

3) Accept unconditionally the cultural norms

4) If drinking, shut your mouth no matter what

5) Don't flash wealth

6) Carry no more than 10,000 baht and surrender it if there is the slightest hint of danger or provocation 

7) Don't be jealous or possessive with you companion

8) Don't engage with others unless you have a solid and secure exit plan

9) Remember when the sun sets you are game

10) AND, unpredictable shit happens. Accept this as a truism and keep your stick solidly on the ice. When the puck drops you need to be ready.

[Tomcat]

and only wear a bikini if your ugly

[pdogg]

Scotland Yard is expected to assist.

 

Yaba, bloody hoe, locals who follow the code of omerta.

 

Lestrade and his Scotland Yard cronies need help.

 

Call in Sherlock.

 

 

 

Police are probing claims a drug called “ya ba” - pill available in certain bars on the island - may have been involved in the murder.

A bloodied garden hoe was found nearby and police believe a second weapon was used.

The probe has been hampered by silence from locals.

 

A source said: “There is a real underbelly on this island and no one is talking. People are afraid.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/thailand-beach-murders-hannah-witheridge-4297320

 

[JaiDee]

The latest; the girl and boy were in a bar the night of the attack talking to a local ''gangster''..... he was trying to hit on the girl, and the boy was angry?  Something like that......

 

Methinks whoever did this may never get caught.

[Tomcat]

Yae, locals who follow the code of omerta.

 

 

 

Not only that  , imagine someone on Holiday who did see something , would they chirp up info knowing that they may be stuck in Thailand as a witness . Ive seen Accidents before and almost everyone at the scene said they see nothing although they admitted afterwards they see everything..