With such a small population look at how many murders there have been and unsolved in the past..

With police long facing accusations of corruption, victim blaming and scapegoating, the bungling of the investigation into the recent murders on Koh Tao has come as little surprise to many.

It's not the first murder on the tiny resort island that has left police baffled. In 2002, Tambon Koh Tao Administrative Association chairman Virat Asavachin was shot dead in broad daylight.

When 16-year-old schoolgirl Sherry Ann Duncan was found murdered in 1986, it marked the beginning of a sordid tale of sex, jealousy and police malpractice that was to span the next decade and spur a major review of the country's criminal justice system.

The murder and rape of Welsh backpacker Kirsty Jones in 2000 stands out as one of the most blatant cases of police incompetence on record.

Then we have the two recent murders of which the news feed seems to have dried up.

Re-read the article.

Really scraping the bottom of the barrel.

This happened about 10 years ago, didn't witness it myself:

In one of those bars down by the pier a few farang were sitting and drinking and talking.

Someone accidentally knocks over a bottle of beer, which falls to the floor etc.

At another table is the woman who owns the place, sitting with a few guys. She gives the farang the stink eye, pulls out a revolver and puts it on the table in front of her.

This was told to me by the guy who knocked the bottle over.

Nice folks.

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