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Willy Eckerslike, on 12 Dec 2014 - 18:19, said:Willy Eckerslike, on 12 Dec 2014 - 18:19, said:

HughJass, on 12 Dec 2014 - 16:10, said:HughJass, on 12 Dec 2014 - 16:10, said:

am i correct in saying that the 3rd guy who left the beach early to see his g/f said that when he woke up the two were in bed sleeping like a baby?

has this guy has since disappeared or will he be called as a witness?

surely this guy would have seen blood on clothes etc and a heightened state of alertness on his friends had they just committed this heinous crime

Not quite HJ the 3rd guy found them sleeping like babies when he returned to the room at 05:00 after seeing his GF

The 3rd Burmese (Muang Muang?) is the one who was pictured in the supermarket buying cigarettes on the night of the murders. He was arrested along with the other two and the police tried to "coerce" (euphemism for torture) him into testifying against his friends, which he refused to do, according to an interview he gave with a journalist after the police were forced to release him. I understand from what I've read that he's gone back to Burma and I doubt he'll want to come back to Thailand .

Muang Muang already gave his testimony during a Pre-trial Witness Hearing at the Koh Samui Court. After that he was released and allowed to go home. In the interview he repeated what he had told the Court. It means there is no need for him to come and testify again.

For the complete statements of both families see

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10152642326445677&id=675065676&ref=bookmark

After reading the statements carefully I think a conclusion that the families find the evidence "convincing" is a little far-fetched...

Many people are trying to clear the imigrants supposed to be involved. Why nothing from the Myanmar govt?

They just arrived:

https://www.dvb.no/news/koh-tao-murders-burmese-legal-forensics-teams-arrive-burma-myanmar/46045

In another case for the Samui prosecutor:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/777033-suspects-in-the-murder-of-a-46-year-old-german-man-in-samui-could-walk-free-on-tuesday/

Meanwhile on Koh Samui:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/777033-suspects-in-the-murder-of-a-46-year-old-german-man-in-samui-could-walk-free-on-tuesday/?utm_source=newsletter-20141117-0728&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news

To make it more interesting:

I was not shure about the Thai words, so I asked my wife. She doesn't read English, so she didn't know I was reading about Koh Tao. I asked her what a song khaeng mi kom was. She replied: Oh, I can show you. And she came back with this little beauty. Yes, she said, this is a song khaeng mi kom, and you can buy one everywhere!

BTW the phrase used in the autopsy report and by the deputy commander of the police Institute of Forensic Medicine for a blunt instrument is "song kheng mi khom", literally "a hard, blunt instrument."

I'm sorry, but I think "mi khom" means sharp, "mai mi khom" or "mai khom" means blunt...

"The charge is dismissed due to unlawful interrogation process under section 120 of the criminal procedure code."

So, dismissed on a judicial technicality, but not in principle?

I had a guy who lived in Thailand for many years tell me that when a Western baby is born it cries, and when a Thai baby is born it lies.

That is why they don't have lie-detectors here: they don't work on Thai people...

OK, I drive an 18-year old Hyundai and I have never had a major problem. There are minor problems, of course, but they are more the result of technicians who are not willing to say that they do not know what to do (Thai technicians do not know the car). The dealers are not much help - in Udon they just plugged in a computer plug and then they told me everything was OK...

It is just trial and error: one day I found a guy who was honest and who said he could only do it by trying and trying again; he did and after that the car drove better than ever. Of course, after that all the maintenance on the car is done by that guy.....

Do not ask me what model I drive: it should have been changed into the new model Access, but Hyundai forgot to tell that to the Mitshubishi-facory that assembled the Hyundai cars in that year. The result: that year the cars got no model-name....and the cars did not get a manual either!