RogueLeader

Yes, a horrific double murder and the guilty need to be brought swiftly to Justice.

But hold on a minute about Petitions to the British PM and demands for a British investigation. Just who do these people think they are?

We have some very fine Police in Thailand who are more than capable of handling this.

Thailand is a Sovereign State, so just back-off with your "Colonial Mentality" and leave it to the Royal Thai Police, instead of trying to run rough-shod over our investigative team. Time to simply accept the fact that "Britain no longer rules the waves"...or anything else these days and certainly never has, nor will it ever, rule Thailand.

You are mistaken if you think British people will stand by while an investigation into the murder of two of their fellow citizens is botched by corrupt officials. If there are "very fine Police in Thailand who are more than capable of handling this," why has the job been not been given to them?

The eyes of the world are on Thailand now, and they are half-full of horror and half-full of disbelief.

Reasonable explanations.

1. He's high as a kite and paranoid people are following him.

2. He's pissing people off to the point that they will kill him just to shut him up.

3. He wants attention because he's a drama queen.

If he knew who did it don't you think he would have told everyone on fb already. Best you do go home.

Definitely many doubts to his integrity from local farang on Koh Tao.

Ah, well. That changes everything. If the thailand expat sweetie-wife gossip mill has taken against him, why bother with a trial?

How many 7/11 workers could you borrow a phone from that have INTERNATIONAL call availability, to call your mum and sister?

BS - He's lying.

How many 7/11 workers do you know that have enough credit to call International numbers?

Even my own wife rarely has anymore then 200-300 baht credit on her phone, and I don't tend to have much more in mine either when I'm at home.

If you dial 006 it costs 3 baht a minute to a landline. . Hmm even on 100 Baht you could speak for more than 30 minutes. Also he was in a shop that may sell top ups. So from this you assume he is lying. Good work Sherlock! Glad you aren't running this investigation.

More and more funny by the minute!!

So this guy is running for his life with the bloodthirsty Thai mafia hot on his heels. Runs to a convenience story, buys a top up, takes a pic of the mafiaguys, connects to his FB account and post the pics. During all this time the "mafia" is patiently waiting outside for the police to arrive an hour later!!

Biggest give-away is the claim, that they threatened to kill him by hanging?? Anyone a little familar with Thai ways, would know a threat of a knife or a gun, absolutely yes. But hanging, never ever!!

I can't adequately express my contempt for this post.

I hope your sons or brothers are never in this position, in a foreign country hounded by gangsters and refused protection from the police. You who sit in your condos and guesthouses crowing that this boy is lying, I hope you never know what that feels like.

Good to hear the Burmese were cleared. For quick closure I hope the evidence ends with the backpacker. Less damage to Thailand's identity for visitors. At least every inch of a break that Thailand gets now is a good break.

I'm pretty sure the police are currently designing evidence carefully to 'end with the backpacker'.

Two people brutally murdered, a suspected rape and all some people can think of is damage to Thailand's precious tourist industry.

If the truth is damaging, perhaps Thailand needs to do something about it?

nah 1111 is a total useless of bureaucracy

so does somebody knows if there any website where you can send the address of the house where they sell drugs?

Don't grass. Ever. Grasses always get what's coming to them.

"Everyone who uses drugs is an addict, therefore we must tear them from their homes in surprise raids and force them into 'rehabilitation' centres."

I see Thailand is being dragged kicking and screaming into the 20th Century. Shame it's the 1930s.

Martial law stopped the daily terrorist attacked by the red shirts in their tracks.

Some say Martial law impinges on tourist numbers. I say it is the lesser of two evils. Terrorist attacks in the capital city had more of a negative effect on tourism not to mention the loss of innocent life.

My family thank martial law for purging society from the evils of the red shirt terrorists and for the safety of me and mine I hope it stays until the infestation is cleared from the blood soaked shadows.

Obvious government troll is obvious.

Every dictatorship in history has depended for its power and influence on people like this.

Sorry to be a stick in the mud

But apart from teenagers on a year out (not the quality tourist TAT wants I suspect) , those who have retired, or the rich. How many people can actually afford in terms of time and money to take a 2 month holiday?

I wouldn't underestimate the spending power of those teenagers.

Yes indeed. The teen and 20s students might be backpackers today, but they're the flashpackers of the future, and no doubt bringing their kids with them.

No-one cares what's going to happen in 10 or 15 or 20 years. Everyone cares only about PROFIT NOW at ANY COST.

This is not unique to Thailand; the world is full of the greedy and the blind, but is particularly evident in South Asia. Have you seen what's happening to the forests, beaches and mountains in Thailand, Cambodia, India, Vietnam? I don't think anyone is banking on there being anything left to exploit in 20 years' time.