Thread: Two Tourists Brutally Murdered on Koh Tao, One Raped: Police Spark Thailand Manhunt

And it appears there is only 1 monkey in the entire world that thinks the 2 Burmese boys are guilty.

Thailand is fast becoming the laughing stock of the rest of the world.
They are so insular they can't even see it.

Originally Posted by Lantern

Thailand is fast becoming the laughing stock of the rest of the world.
They are so insular they can't even see it.

Already is, to people who look beyond the facade.

Originally Posted by Lantern

Thailand is fast becoming the laughing stock of the rest of the world.
They are so insular they can't even see it.

Agreed.

And it has also become IMO, creepy, in a sinister way.

It does not (usually) affect foreigners of course, but it makes one wonder where LOS will be headed soon.

Originally Posted by Lantern

Thailand is fast becoming the laughing stock of the rest of the world.
They are so insular they can't even see it.

Lots of room to move yet. They're nowhere near China.

Any news on the shark tooth ring guy? His ring fits David's wounds perfectly.

Yes, it's really odd how some investigator DIDN'T think : "gee....look at those funny little puncture marks"....

One very telling and incontrovertible piece of evidence : the actual punctures on a dead body.

What about that guy Shaun Whoever - he was whisked off pretty quick and changed his name.

Yeah....that was an odd twist. He was a bit of an odd character and clammed up. But I'm sure the UK police interviewed him and winkled a certain amount of truth from him.....unless he's a nutter (which may well be the case).

Can't believe the victim's family is going along with this. Gotta be something behind the scenes to make them play along with this sad little dog and pony show. Just naive, or perhaps just being well taken of during their stay in the Land of Subterfuge?

They have had their son / daughter killed .
Two, or of all the killers are awaiting their punishment.

Do you have any update or are just making crass comments ?

^Yes, I have an update:

You're a twat if you think that kangaroo court has prosecuted the actual killers.

Crass enough for ya?

^ they have at least 2 of them

''Agent_Smith you mean the phone found on the scene, then lost, then found in the Burmese' possession? Right, case closed.''

No try and keep up .
I mean the iphone belonging to David Miller that was found in the bushes near the home of the Burmese.
The Burmese admitted finding it and throwing it there (this is after claiming they were too drunk to remember what happened that night,) they miraculously claim to remember finding the phone on the beach but away from the murder spot, whilst on their way back from an improbable middle of the night swim, and never retracted this and said it in court.
the only doubt was proving it was Davids phone , which his father was able to do.

In a dramatic twist in the final hours of the trial in Thailand, the prosecution received information from the Thai Embassy in London suggesting that a phone found near the lodgings of one of the accused Burmese migrant workers belonged to Mr Miller.

Mr Miller's family claimed to have secured the identifying number of their son's phone and passed it to the Thai Embassy, after there was conflicting testimony as to whether the British authorities had helped the prosecution confirm ownership.

To do so would have been in contravention of the British government's stand not to assist cases which could lead to the death penalty.

Wei Phyo, one of the two Burmese men charged with killing Mr Miller and fellow British tourist Hannah Witheridge, had admitted finding a phone on the beach on the night of the murder.

He said he picked it out of the sand some distance from the murder scene and took it home but he could not open it as it was locked with a passcode.

"The next day we heard about the murders and we were worried it might belong to someone involved," he told the court.
"My friend smashed up the phone and threw it into the undergrowth behind our hut."

British Family Intervenes In Thai Murders Trial

but you are right the case is closed
hopefully the 2 killers are going to get justice soon,

I met an educated Thai guy whose opinion was ''why many farang think they innocent? they must be guilty''

Quite an intelligent conclusion I thought, I assumed he'd read all opinions and angles and seen the interviews
Maybe he had.

^ How "educated" was he?...

Originally Posted by blue

I mean the iphone belonging to David Miller that was found in the bushes near the home of the Burmese.

I don't remember reading that, but I'll take your word for it - since I don't want to go back a hundred and forty odd pages to look for it.

At any rate, finding a phone near a murder scene is hardly convincing evidence that one committed a murder.

What about the fact that there was no physical evidence (other than a cigarette butt found nearby) linking them to the crime, i.e., blood, semen?

No eyewitnesses. No motive. No CCTV. Nothing.

And yet, the actual guy(s) who did murder them had many of those links - but they are protected by island politics, and the Thai propensity to find easy scapegoats.

Perhaps you find it too taxing to question authority, just let things be; you know, because you've got no stake in these guy's outcome. They were just unlucky enough to be in the wrong place at the right time for a good old fashioned Thai lynching. What difference does it make to you, anyway? None at all.

So go ahead and accept the courts version of events, even though it has more holes in it than a busted colander, because - Hey! - it's not you being framed. Right?

I sincerely hope you're never falsely accused (and tortured) of anything so heinous and have to go through what these guys have.

But take heart, if something like that happens to you in Thailand maybe some one will speak out for you on your behalf.

Originally Posted by DJ Pat

I met an educated Thai guy whose opinion was ''why many farang think they innocent? they must be guilty''

Quite an intelligent conclusion I thought, I assumed he'd read all opinions and angles and seen the interviews
Maybe he had.

Just like Blue has. Sadly this thing is so botched up now, we'll never know for certain who did it. I'd say 50/50 on whether the accused are factually guilty or not and there's not much likely to change that.

Originally Posted by BobR

we'll never know for certain who did it

An outcome that the "Thai justice system" depends on. Quickly arrest, convict and punish someone guilty or not.

Job done and soon will no longer be front page news and forgotten.

^

Certainly was forgotten after the first week.

The world knows Thailand is corrupt shit hole and a world class trial can never ever be expected here.

Hence the only avenue of attack is to avoid conflict at all costs.

Err, Colin Vard went looking for conflict?

Innocence is no bar to misfortune at the hands of corrupted authority and other criminals in this place Terry.

If it suits someone's purpose, intentional or otherwise, you are as vulnerable in this country to injustice as your testicles might be hanging over a shallow snake pit.

Originally Posted by blue

I mean the iphone belonging to David Miller that was found in the bushes near the home of the Burmese.
The Burmese admitted finding it and throwing it there (this is after claiming they were too drunk to remember what happened that night,)

If the two Burmese guys where aware that the phone could be connected to the murder and they thus tried to dispose of it, they then wouldnt have bought it home with them in the first place .
Walking along the beach and finding a phone , picking it up and keeping it in understandably, but killing someone, taking their phone and then trying to dispose of it the next day just doesnt make sense .
Why would they take it home in the first place if they knew that it would connect them to the murders

Originally Posted by Fluke

Originally Posted by blue

I mean the iphone belonging to David Miller that was found in the bushes near the home of the Burmese.
The Burmese admitted finding it and throwing it there (this is after claiming they were too drunk to remember what happened that night,)

If the two Burmese guys where aware that the phone could be connected to the murder and they thus tried to dispose of it, they then wouldnt have bought it home with them in the first place .
Walking along the beach and finding a phone , picking it up and keeping it in understandably, but killing someone, taking their phone and then trying to dispose of it the next day just doesnt make sense .
Why would they take it home in the first place if they knew that it would connect them to the murders

Because they were, to use there own words 'legless drunk'?

Well hearing the phone may be part of the murder and then leaving it in the bushes in their garden doesn't make sense either , as does not fleeing the island .

My guess is that that either they were part of a gang, and were told something like ''everything is covered - we have paid the police off, don't worry etc''
or
they are just thick and uneducated as shit.

Either way they had some part in it, and know something more, so fuck them .

Asians going for a middle of the night swim for joy ? bullshit - have you ever seen that ?
more like to get cleaned up after the murder

As confucius might have said:

When many big mouth politically correct farang shout INNOCENT - good CSI detective think guilty.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

Err, Colin Vard went looking for conflict?

Innocence is no bar to misfortune at the hands of corrupted authority and other criminals in this place Terry.

Colin Vard was a filthy rich foreign tool, he bought up half of Phuket and expected to live happily ever after.

He also apparently spent all his money here without stashing some away overseas just in case he was fuked over here.

He was fuked over here and we all know his story.

Dumb fuk full stop.