catweazle

Good job! Next step now to get the big guys and the meth cooks? Don't think so - and we all know why...

Super shallow blabla and basically nothing will change. They will have a stroll along the beach and do some superficial small talk, then it wil be sitting in a circle, in a nice comfy air-conditioned hotel lobby with some Tapas and cocktails, doing some more superficial blabla until everything continues as it did from the very start - downhill

Was I euphoric before, does this news article proof to me (and anyone else who can read between the lines) that the whole probe is nothing but a cheap media stunt to calm down emotions before the two Burmese midgets will take the fall for the mafia kids on Koh F#cK

Unless there is a complete independent investigation where the corrupt RTP will be ordered to "stay behind and just observe", the real murders will never be caught and proscecuted. The absurdity continues...

Why am I not surprised? Is it perhaps because...

1) Visitors have realised that Thailand is far from "safe" due to the Koh Tao and other incidents?

2) The deep south is a civil war zone, although not officialy announced as such?

3) Democracy is dead in Thailand?

4) Thailand by now is without freedom of speech and under censorship?

5) Your friend and helper, the RTP is a corrupt pile of horse$#ite?

6) Many Thais are getting more uneasy and more aggressive by the day?

7) Foreigners are losing more and more rights and by now are stripped of the few privileges they previously had?

8) It still is unattractive to invest in Thailand since foreigner can own $#!t and due to all the additional minus pointes here it gets even more unattractive?

9) National and marine parks are being poached, neglected and handed to the fishery industry to be destoyed at will, while the park fees disappear in the rangers' pockets?

10) Martial law?

11) The smile in the land of such disappearing?

12) Prices increasing?

13) Quality decreasing?

14) ... on and on goes the list - it could fill a book

YEAH! Power to the people!!!! Everyone here, who did not buckle under the threats of the RTP and kept posting intimidating questions about the flaws and unanswered questions in this murder investigation have been a part of it! I love you guys!!!!!!!!! Sucess!!!! People can make a difference, resistance can move mountains! These latest news made my day!

'Farce' i think is the correct word. Allowing locals and tourists onto the crime scene while it was being searched for evidence. Releasing graphic photos of the victims' injuries that raised the whole temperature of this case internationally. Regular press briefings on suspects. None of this suggests a police force that was intent on a pernicious cover up. Rather it merely reveals how unsophisticated and inept are the Thai police in making such investigations.

Yes, I go along with most of what you are saying except that I would not describe this as a farce. Another way of expressing this, is to say that the Thai police could do with more experts in the field regarding these types of complicated investigations, plus are in desperate need of more resources and higher budgets to investigate such crimes, in many instances the Thai police force are up against the odds trying to fight crime with the limited resources at their disposal.

I can remember dating back to the tragic death of Princess Diana in France. During that time the French police made a right pig`s ear of the whole inquiry, they were considered as the most incompetent police force in the world and they had all the state of the art resources available to them, but again the amateur conspiracy theorists came out in force, only in those days the social media sites were not that well established so there were less platforms for them to air their views. But even today the conspiracy theorists are still ranting on about that case, mostly without a shred of hard evidence to back them up, so it remains as just theories that never have any factual conclusions.

Let us hope that this case does not conclude in the same way, and there will not be any doubts and that the souls of this tragic couple will be able to rest in peace and the minds of the families will be at peace. At this time, this is all we can hope for.

So what you mean is that it is not a farce if:

1) Police fails to secure the crime scene and let people including possible suspects (owner of AC bar only 50cm away from David's legs) trample the crime scene with the possibility to destroy and/or plant evidence?

2) A cigarette butt is used to make a conviction while semen inside one of the victims is being ignored?

3) Police is unable to tell what a stab wound looks like and how the work of a garden hoe on a skull looks like?

4) Possible witnesses or accessories to murde such as Sean with the bloody guitar who was hunted and received death threats by AC bar owner and his police friend (photo from behind the counter at 7Eleven).

5) A possible suspect reappearing at the Bkk university the day after with reported scratch marks on back and arms is not DNA tested because he's the son of one of the mafia king pins on Koh Tao?

6) Police ignores possible crucial two minutes on the CCTV cameras with those two minutes perhaps "lost"?

7) A footprint at the crime scene not being casted in plaster, only photographed?

8) Crucial confidemt information and shocking uncensored crime scene photos leaked to the internet by police and rescue?

9) The fact that David's attacker and murderer must have been a left hander with body height above Thai average according to the stab wounds being ignored?

10) No search for David's murder weapon, the push dagger?

11) Reports that police tried to bribe people into witness statements?

12) Torture and threats in a "safe house" away from witnesses to enforce confessions?

... and the list goes on and on... These are not just a few but thousands of open question marks, far more and very different to the Diana crash... If you can't see that the above points are more than enough to not question, but condemn the whole investigation with reason enough to put this above an average "conspiray theory", then you must be either completely ignorant or (sorry) mentally challenged. Throwing the Diana crash investigation and this case into one bucket does not work for me and most likely not for the truth seeking other 90% here..

And since you were talking about insufficient police budgets - it doesn't cost a lot to seal off a crime scene properly - and that was THE first and possibly biggest mistake they made. Any defense lawyer with a brain could rip the whole case apart only showing that one photo with that AC bar f#$eR standing next to one of the victims whereas he reappeared over and over again during the whole investigation.

Nice to see that this absurd travesty and kick in the face of humanity by now officially is being published as a farce. I personally believe that a proper word for it yet needs to be created.

Perhaps in the future there will be an insider phrases like these to be used amongst Thailand expats:

1) The police had a "Koh Tao Moment" (pretends to poke around in the dark whilst knowing who the "employer"... ahemm, sorry, suspect is)

2) The investigation "goes Koh Tao" (investigation was never intended to succeed)

3) "Oh, Koh Tao!" (famous last words instead of "Oh, $#!t!")

4) "Koh Tao you!" (instead of "F.... you!")

5) Incredible to see how quickly that "went Koh Tao" (went south)

6) "Don't give me Koh Tao!" (don't give me S#!t)

7) "Go to Koh Tao!" (go to hell!)

8) "That policeman is Koh Tao!" (corrupt, superficial, racist, part of mafia, a criminal himself)

9) "His chances for survial, to win, to succeed, etc. are Koh Tao." (99% chance to fail)

10) "This is so Koh Tao!" (this is so disgusting, sick, immoral, wrong, perverted, inhumane, despicable, corrupted and bad to the core all in one word)

This said, I believe with point ten I answered the "find the word" challenge myself: The murder investigation is officially "a Koh Tao!"...

jtj everyone on here knows that you like to make statements praising your beloved rtp, but we all also know that you never abswer questions that may prove that they are not doing their job properly or honestly. so heres another one for you. About 4 days ago the thai pathologist in a television interview said that a 3rd persons dna had been found on hannahs body. Yet nowhere in anything the police have said did they mention that they were looking for a 3rd person, could you speculate why that may be. perhaps the 3rd person is someone they already know, but are not willing to charge. we await your reply with baited breath

Don't waste your valuable time in fruitless arguments with JTJ - he's a shill and very busy to defend the official story as well as the RTP and to spread pro-Thai, anti-foreign, and especially anti-Burmese sentiment in forums and is most likely getting paid for it. He's not better than the snitches here in Thailand who are willing to drop a dime on their best friends for yet another one year visa. Stop promoting him by quoting his posts and completely ignore him - if we all are lucky he might just wither away. He strives on provoking posters and getting into bitchfights with them. If you virtually ignore him, you deplete his food supply consisting of anger and other negative emotions.

I think that whatever statements they blurt out into public - by now the whole world knows that the RTP is a rotten to the core criminal underground organization who believe to be above the law, above common sense, above evidence, above logic, above human principles, above public opinion, and above life in general. Time for Gen. PM Prayuth to target these brown mafia structures, dismantle them and rebuild a police force that deserves respect due to having earned it! Perhaps we get lucky and the suicide rate amongst Thai policeman skyrockets to 90%, thus separating the wheat from the chaff naturally...