Koh Tao murder defendants denied UK police report
26/08/2015
Reuters News agency
LONDON - Two Myanmar workers on trial for the murder of two British tourists on Koh Tao should not be given access to a confidential British police report about the case, a British judge ruled on Tuesday.
Win Zaw Htun and Zaw Lin, both 22, risk the death penalty if found guilty of murdering Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24, in September last year on the Surat Thani province island.
The allegations caused disquiet in Britain. In a ruling handed down in London on Tuesday, High Court Judge Nicholas Green said the misgivings were such Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and his British counterpart, David Cameron, discussed the matter.
The two leaders agreed that Britain's Metropolitan Police would send a team to Thailand to conduct an independent inquiry. However, as it is British policy not to assist foreign police forces in death penalty cases, the scope of the mission was to observe and record the Thai police investigation.