How did this alternative ending come about? Winai, after being released, was filled with a horrible sense of injustice of having been wrongfully convicted and proceeded to pursue the case on his own, insisting that his associates were innocent. He claimed another group of suspects was responsible. Officers from the Crime Suppression Division of the national police thus began a secret investigation in parallel with the trial of Winai’s associates. On 3 June 1988, a letter marked ‘secret’ from the Crime Suppression Division to the office of the special prosecutor of Samut Prakan province was written asking that the court consider suspending the trial of the four men accused of murdering Sherry Ann Duncan. The letter stated that the Crime Suppression Division had sufficient evidence to indicate that the four men on trial were not involved in the death of Sherry Ann. It added ominously that if the case went on a grave ‘injustice’ could result.