UK police to probe Thailand tourist murders

British police officers are to travel to Thailand to help investigate the murders of tourists David Miller and Hannah Witheridge. The head of the Thai junta dropped his objections to a visit by British detectives following a face-to-face meeting with Prime Minister David Cameron on the margins of the ASEM summit of European and Asian leaders in Milan. Myanmar migrant workers Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Tun were charged with the murder of Miller, 24, and the rape and murder of Witheridge, 23, after the tourists’ battered bodies were found on Koh Tao on September 15. Thai police have said the two suspects confessed to the crime and their DNA matched samples taken from Witheridge’s body, but there have been accusations that the men were tortured — something Thailand strongly denies.

Obviously it is for the Thai authorities to lead and carry out that judicial process…but it is important that it is fair and transparent and that both of the families can be reassured that it is the murderers that have been brought to justice.

An anonymous British diplomatic source

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