To get their pardons, the two women had to waive all objections to their convictions. Cahill went as far as to say in an interview this week: 'We were not set up by the Thai police. It's a load of rubbish. The problem with so-called do-gooders back home is that they won't believe the obvious. Please ask these silly people in England to shut up. Have they any idea what it is doing to our case?'