Thai police send Koh Tao murder case to prosecutors

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Police send murder case to prosecutors
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SURAT THANI, Oct 7 -- Police early Tuesday sent the case on the murder of two British tourists on a beach in the Gulf of Thailand three weeks ago to the prosecutors for consideration.

Pol Maj Gen Praveen Pongsirin, deputy commander of Police Region 8, who is also chief investigator in the case, forwarded police investigation report to the prosecutor's office on Ko Samui, an island also part of the southern coastal province of Surat Thani.

The report was sent to the prosecutors after police were convinced that their evidence was sufficient and solid, and that legal action could be taken against the suspects now in police custody identified as Win and Zaw. Both men are Myanmar nationals and work on Ko Tao, the island where the murders took place.

A third Myanmar man, also in police custody, is being treated as a witness in the case.

The bodies of Hannah Victoria Witheridge, 23, and David William Miller, 24, were found on a Ko Tao beach early on September 15. Both were murdered while Miss Witheridge was also raped.

On Monday, representatives of Myanmar embassy inspected the scene of the murders and the rented houses of the two Myanmar suspects on the island to follow up the case.

Police informed them how investigation was made and confession made by the two suspects.

Police again asserted that the two were not scapegoats. (MCOT online news)


-- TNA 2014-10-07

[JetsetBkk]

The report was sent to the prosecutors after police were convinced that their evidence was sufficient and solid

It's not the police who need convincing.

[kaobang]

i believe they are scapegoats and the 1000000 baht reward from the ac bar owner was a clear message

in countries...with a modern law system..this would be illegal

http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/koh-tao-headman-offers-one-million-baht-cash-evidence-proves-family-implicated-tourist-murder/

the "full confidence in thai government "declared by thai ambassador in Myanmar just before the arrests was an other clear message

http://www.pattayamail.com/news/myanmar-has-full-confidence-in-thai-government-thai-ambassador-41546

Edited October 7, 2014 by kaobang

[JOC]

Going to be a very interesting test of the "independant" juridical system in Thailand!!

Sadly I guess, we all know the outcome!

Only this time they will not get away with it!! Hope the British press and social media will see real justice served this time!!

[bruceybonus]

As I keep saying the worst thing is that the real perps are sitting somewhere laughing about this!

Also think about all the other Thai sickos with western women fantasies. Suddenly they will think they can get away with a similar heinous crime!

[annabel]

i believe they are scapegoats and the 1000000 baht reward from the ac bar owner was a clear message

in countries...with a modern law system..this would be illegal

http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/koh-tao-headman-offers-one-million-baht-cash-evidence-proves-family-implicated-tourist-murder/

the "full confidence in thai government "declared by thai ambassador in Myanmar just before the arrests was an other clear message

http://www.pattayamail.com/news/myanmar-has-full-confidence-in-thai-government-thai-ambassador-41546

And this 1 mil Baht to now be shared between the police, the police, the police and the other polices involved. Maybe even to the all of a sudden competent and speedy Gonzales DNA crew. He has done a good job paying them off no to prove he or his sons are innocent though , but to get them all off the hook. And maybe only 100,000 Baht each to these 2 scapegoats to take the blame because after all the police had to teach them how to re-enact the crime

[SICHONSTEVE]

i believe they are scapegoats and the 1000000 baht reward from the ac bar owner was a clear message

in countries...with a modern law system..this would be illegal

http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/koh-tao-headman-offers-one-million-baht-cash-evidence-proves-family-implicated-tourist-murder/

the "full confidence in thai government "declared by thai ambassador in Myanmar just before the arrests was an other clear message

http://www.pattayamail.com/news/myanmar-has-full-confidence-in-thai-government-thai-ambassador-41546

And this 1 mil Baht to now be shared between the police, the police, the police and the other polices involved. Maybe even to the all of a sudden competent and speedy Gonzales DNA crew. He has done a good job paying them off no to prove he or his sons are innocent though , but to get them all off the hook. And maybe only 100,000 Baht each to these 2 scapegoats to take the blame because after all the police had to teach them how to re-enact the crime

Oh dear, I think that you have got this the wrong way round!!!

"As a local village headman in Koh Tao announced to give one million baht cash reward to police if they have substantial evidence to implicate him and his family in the murder of the two British tourists"

Seems that the police failed, despite the huge incentive, to claim their booty as they were unable to implicate anyone from his family with the crimes committed and had to make do with the two Burmese boys (who are the real killers and rapists) as they so freely keep on admitting to all-and-sunder!!!

Thanks for supporting my beliefs and clearing the bar owners family (inadvertently of course) with your total misunderstanding of events.

[HeijoshinCool]

How much credence can a professional, honest prosecutor give a case like this?

Zero.

[freedom4life]

I hope the prosecutors throw this ridiculous case out in the trash bin..actually they better, it's been a circus from the start.

[longballlarry]

But comments by Burmese lawyer Aung Myo Thant to Burmese media, translated by the news website Coconuts Bangkok, threw doubt on their confessions.

'They told me that they were on the beach that night drinking and singing songs,' he said.

'They said they didn't do it, that the Thai police (along with their Burmese-Thai translator) beat them until they confessed to something they didn't do.

'They're pleading with the Burmese government to look into the case and find out the truth. They were a really pitiful sight. Their bodies had all sorts of bruises.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2784707/Burmese-migrants-RECANT-murder-confession-British-tourists-Human-rights-groups-urge-Thailand-investigate-claims-duo-tortured.html#ixzz3FXkge9st
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[HeijoshinCool]

How much credence can a professional, honest prosecutor give a case like this?

Zero.

.

A day later, looks like I was right. It only took them a blink of an eye to turn the report back.

Nice job, Mr. Prosecutor.

[ClutchClark]

As I keep saying the worst thing is that the real perps are sitting somewhere laughing about this!

Also think about all the other Thai sickos with western women fantasies. Suddenly they will think they can get away with a similar heinous crime!

Are their fantasies different from the Western Sicko fantasies carried out on Thai women every night?