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I accept that the 2 Burmese men accused of being the killers have recanted the confessions. I also accept that they confessed more than one time and once was to an HRC commissioner.And again, wrong.
Instead of cherry picking, I accept the current position. Sean did not change his statement. He explained it. He did so after he was safely out of Thailand.
As for, "cops eased Sean's" departure from Thailand. That is just another conspiracy theory.
So then I assume you also accept the current position of the two accused Burmese men that they are innocent and were coerced into confessing.
To cite their earlier confession would be cherry picking (by your definition), correct?
That leaves the merits of the confessions in the judges' hands
@JD....
A couple of quick details..... you base your confidence that the cops have their men largely on their confessions. You are entitled to that opinion.
I'll have to paraphrase a bit because I don't have time to dig up all the exact articles and reports.
They confessed to being on the beach and quite drunk. They saw the 2 kids being intimate and wanted a bit so they beat David to death with a hoe and raped the girl and then also killed her. (my apologies for not quoting word for word.... )
Your confidence that these are the guilty perps based on the confessions is concerning because there is no evidence that David and Hannah were 'involved romantically' at any time during their stay on the island.
Worryingy, no DNA of David was found anywhere on Hannah's body. The police stated this early on and to my my knowledge have never changed that report. Even a kiss and a cuddle would have left DNA on her to be found. Yet none was.
The boys stated they beat David with the hoe and yet to my knowledge, no DNA of David was found on the hoe. The police also stated this and again, to my knowlegde never changed that report.
(If I'm incorrect and you know of any updated reports on the hoe and David's DNA on Hannah, please share the links.)
To me this makes their confessions hard to believe. They confessed to a crime that was most unlilely to have been committed as told.
Are you comfortable with their confessions if the above is accurate? (please correct me if any of my points above are not correct)
It always annoys me when I see the murdered two referred to as a "couple." Even been done in British newspapers. As you
said there has been no credible testimony given that they were involved in any way and been reported he had a girlfriend back home.
Nothing should be reported to make the confessions sound even slightly more believable when there is no proof that it is valid.
Anyway that is a minor point. Going back to the lack of dna on Hannah. The theory given by JD and co. is that the Burmese lads caught
David by surprise, hitting him over the head with the hoe while he was well doing whatever they claim he was doing. If so, surely there would also be blood,
tissue samples etc on her from that blow, not just the intimacy.
Now moving on to the rest of the story. After being hit on the head he was allegedly in no state to fight back and do any damage to his much smaller assailants, yet they kept hitting him with the hoe from angles that I can't imagine- strange uppercuts to the throat while he was on the floor or crawling? Ok bizarre enough. Now how did he go from that situation to be in the water where he could drown? Did the two boys carry him? What was Hannah doing while this was taking place?
Ok, so we know this scenario makes no sense. The question then is, if the BiB tortured these boys, why didn't they give the confessors a story that anyone with a brain
would believe. My view is that it would be impossible to come up with one that made any sense unless it involved far more attackers, and more defendants = more potential
alibis. Initially they did say there were three suspects but I guess the one's girlfriend and potentially others saw him that morning so it had to be back down to just the two. I think most would agree that it's likely a minimum of 4 but probably at least 5 or 6 were involved in the attack. If they had them give a more believable story re. murder weapons used that would also require them finding said other murder weapons. And there are likely to be many who could attest to the boys not carrying such weapons on/with them whereas others on the island are known to do so.
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Just got kicked out of thai with valid visa
in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
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It's not a criminal case so the immigration officers don't need to prove anything. The burden of proof is on you to prove that the declarations you made on your visa applications are true. They obviously suspected he was working illegally and he had no way to convince them otherwise. Proof of income from sources outside Thailand and/or bank statements showing that no other money was going into your account and that money was in fact leaving your account in an amount expected of someone living here would be the kind of things that could logically convince them.
On another note I thought the 20k baht was proof of funds for a 1 month tourist visa. So wouldn't you need 20k per month of your intended stay if you were on an ed visa?