Category: murder
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THAI RIVER KWAI KILLER COP TRANSFERRED BACK HOME
‘BANG, BANG, BANG’, KILLER ON RIVER KWAI MOVES BACK TO HOME TOWN (From the Flying Sporran in Kanchanaburi) Just ten years after being sentenced to death, later reduced to 50 years, and later again reduced to 32 years, Police Sergeant Somchai Wisetsingh, who brutally murdered Britons Adam Lloyd, 24, and Vanessa Arscott,23, in Kanchanburi, has…
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Why The Trial Of Two Young Burmese For Murder Desperately Needs Monitoring
Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary Yesterday in the UK the Guardian published a very good article about the plight of the two young Burmese charged with the murder of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the Thai island of Kho Tao. The article carried criticism of Scotland Yard and the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in…
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KOH TAO MURDERS – PROTESTERS DEMAND BRITISH INVESTIGATION IN LONDON
WHILE BRITAIN’S AMBASSADOR TARGETS THAI MEDIA – Protesters demanding an British government investigation into the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller were successful today in handing their petition into the British Prime Minister David Cameron at 10 Downing Street. The demo attracted quite a large crowd including Burmese and Thai – although as usual only…
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FRASER SUITES MURDER – MAN HELD FOR STABBING AMERICAN SOCIALITE TO DEATH IN BANGKOK
FACEBOOK FRIEND ‘KILLER’ FOUND RUNNING A MOBILE PHONE SHOP Police in India have arrested the alleged man wanted for the murder of a wealthy American socialite in Bangkok two years ago. Ritesh Sanghvi, 28, was arrested under warrant issued by the Special Extradition Court in Delhi. Its alleged stabbed Wendy Albano, 52, from South Tampa,…
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KOH TAO – A METHODICAL INVESTIGATION OR THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
As international human rights agencies seeks clarification on a controversial Thai murder investigation, staff at the Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok send a team to Koh Samui A Burmese migrant worker ngo also has sent a team to Koh Samui where the suspects are being held. But police chief Police General Somyot Pumpunmuang denies they are scapegoats. And…
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BOILING WATER AND BEATINGS – CLAIM FRIENDS OF BURMESE ON MURDER AND RAPE CHARGES
PLEASE DON’T CLOSE THIS CASE! Three of the out of group of nine Burmese who were friends of the two who now face the death penalty in Thailand for murder of two British backpackers were tortured by Thai police six days ago, it was claimed today. Praying and begging for forgiveness (Khao Sod) Or is…
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KOH TAO MURDER – THEY DID NOT DO IT! – SAY BURMESE
THAI POLICE RE-ENACT KOH TAO MURDER SCENE ‘VERY SATISFIED WITH INVESTIGATION’ BUT BURMESE SAY ‘THEY DID NOT DO IT’ Two Burmese migrant labourers, who police say have confessed to the brutal murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller, were today ordered to take part in a reconstruction of the murder scene – comically one holding…
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THAI POLICE CLAIM BURMESE BAR WORKER HAS CONFESSED TO KOH TAO MURDERS
Thai Police today said that a 21-year old Burmese bar worker has confessed to the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the holiday island of Koh Tao. Burmese suspects share a at about 10.30 pm motorbike behind Sairee Beach, Koh Tao. Win is No 1 sandwiched between his friends – Picture Royal Thai…
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HEADING FOR AN AGATHA CHRISTIE TYPE ENDING ON A VERY BRUTAL MURDER?
COMMENT: PERHAPS IT’S TIME TO GIVE THE THAI POLICE A BREAK! (Update. This article was clearly an aberration. But I am leaving it up as a lesson to myself) The international press has pulled off the Koh Tao murder story now, perplexed, bored, and some downright pee’d off. But despite the repetitive promises of the…
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MORE RAPES AND MURDERS AS TOURISM MINISTER COMES UP WITH ID WRISTBAND PLAN
TWO SEX ATTACKS – TWO BODIES WASHED UP – AS MINISTER SUGGESTS ‘GET A THAI BUDDY’ PLAN. Pattaya Bay Police in Thailand were today investigating the rapes of a two young tourists and opening murder investigations into two bodies washed ashore – as two weeks on the murder investigation into the brutal killings of Hannah…
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RESENTMENT ON MURDER ISLAND – WHY DID YOU DRAG OUR ISLAND DOWN ?
Local holding hoe identical to murder weapon Insensitive locals linked to tourism on the Thai holiday island of Phuket are continuing to post questionable pictures on the social media which might make foreigners ill at ease and are open to misconception. One particular man about town has posted a picture of himself holding a garden…
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KOH TAO MURDERS: THAI POLICE NEED HELP WITH DNA
BUT THAT’S GOOD NEWS! FLYING SPORRAN’S WEEKEND DIARY COMMENT Woraphan Tuvichien – Press Conference – TBS The Foreign Press corps has in the main put away its buckets and spades and stopped digging on the island of Koh Tao..A smattering remains. I say ‘stopped digging’ but there was not much digging to do –…
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‘IT WAS NOT ME!’ SAYS SON OF VILLAGE HEAD MAN IN THAI MURDER INVESTIGATION
NOW THAILAND’S MILITARY RULER SENDS TROOPS TO MURDER ISLAND Businessman and local police – by Sean McAnna who thought they were mafia The son of a Thai person of influence on the Thai holiday island of Koh Tao has denied he was on the run from Thai police today as Thailand’s military ruler deployed his…
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HOW DID THIS MAN GET OUT OF A THAI JAIL?
DUBLIN PUBLICAN HELPED RAISE BAIL A former Irish taxi driver who walked out of a Thai jail on bail for brutally stabbing to death a Pattaya bar girl has surrendered to police in Dublin in connection with the multiple stabbing of an Irish woman who was on her way to work at a children’s crèche.…
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KOH TAO MURDERS – A TASTELESS JOKE BY ISLAND DISC JOCKEYS.
MURDER ISLAND BAR SIGN While Thai police are still pursuing the killers of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller and dismissing mafia allegations someone has had the bad taste to put this notice up on the internet. It is allegedly a sign put up in a bar in Koh Tao which I will not name playing…