Picture: Sakchai LalitSource:AAP, Christopher Ware, a friend of British tourist David Miller, who was killed along with his girlfriend, reacts during an investigation at a police station in the resort island of Koh Tao in the Gulf of Thailand.Source:AAP. Some were murdered, some died in suspicious circumstances and some died in avoidable accidents. Along with rumours of secret CCTV footage, inconclusive blood samples and a mysterious Swedish man, Christina’s death has haunted her family for the last three years. A series of unexplained events have created havoc for this island paradise, with some now calling it a “tourist trap”. British tourists Hannah Witheridge and David Miller were found dead Monday, September 15, on a beach in Koh Tao, a popular resort island in Thailand. What a sight.”. The bodies of Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24, were found on a beach on Koh Tao in September 2014. Koh Tao Murders, Suspicious Deaths, Fatal Accidents Tribute to 20 Foreigners Tony Lotus & 1Survivor Dedication to 20 foreigners who died on Koh Tao. Tourists flee Thailand as tropical storm 'threatens 22-foot waves' Asia. The court also refuted suggestions that the police had mishandled the case. “The UK coroner said they just weren’t up to spec. 3 sought for Koh Tao murders. Koh Tao’s dark side: dangers of island where Britons were murdered Hannah Witheridge and David Miller were killed in Koh Tao, where fear of mafia … After a series of glitches with the UK Foreign Office and authorities on Koh Tao, Mr Annesley said he has no doubt there is more to his daughter’s death, and the lack of any evidence shows the incompetence of the investigation. His body was found at the beach at the Hillside Resort on Koh Tao, on January 1, 2014. He said he had been told by someone on the island that Christina had been killed because “she was going around asking questions [about former deaths on the island] and taking photos of the beach. Some were murdered, some died in suspicious circumstances and some died in avoidable accidents. The events surrounding Christina’s death are still unexplained and her parents say her body was left in a temple for days before an autopsy was performed. The defense team argued that the police investigation was flawed due to "alleged mishandling of forensic evidence, abuse of suspects and intimidation of witnesses," according to a previous statement issued by the Migrant Worker Rights Network, a rights group assisting the defense team. So much so, that Koh Tao was dubbed "death island" and "murder island" by the media. Thailand Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha answers questions during a news conference in Bangkok, Thailand, on Thursday, September 18. An appeals court upheld the guilty verdict in 2017. Police question influential Koh Tao figure, seek second (Updated) More DNA evidence collected on Koh Tao as police move on to new field of suspects. All times AEST (GMT +10). Thai police said forensic evidence, including DNA samples from cigarette butts found near the bodies, tied the men to the scene. In hindsight we did get told about things that could have happened to her on Facebook which is a terrible way, but we thought they were just pranks and ignored them.”, The body of slain British tourist David Miller, wrapped in plastic sheet, at a forensic police facility in Bangkok in September 2014. Recently a lower Thai court had sentence Wai Phyo and Zaw Lin to death for the murder of David and Hannah. There are a lot of rumors going around but no one really knows what happened. “They eventually relented but when the samples got here to the UK, the corner did an autopsy and the blood samples were useless to them. BANGKOK — Hacker collective group Anonymous last night claimed responsibility for taking down at least 14 police websites in Thailand in a campaign for “justice” in the Koh Tao murder case. The pair were sentenced to death for the murder of 24 year old David Miller and the murder and rape of 23 year old Hannah Witheridge. Picture: iStockSource:Supplied. MANSION 'MURDER' Moment man arrested 100 miles away after £300m hotelier stabbed to death. Seriously if Koh Tao is a sleepy diver's paradise what the hell is Koh Phanghan like, In awe of how beautiful this place is... pic.twitter.com/8r21vPy4Li. Police claim Myanmar worker confesses to Koh Tao murders. Those involved with the island’s activities have claimed to news.com.au residents on the island know who actually killed them, but no one will say anything because it’s run by four mafia families. Russian Valentina Novozhenova is still missing. The family identified the last person to see Christina alive, after claiming they had been left to investigate their daughter’s death on their own dime. On Koh Tao the police decided to charge two small Burmese men (relative puppy dogs) who were in the general vicinity of the crime scene at about the time the murders were committed. The unexplained death of 23-year-old New Zealand-born Christina Annesley in the exotic paradise dubbed “Death Island” sounds like something ripped out of the pages of a mystery novel. British tourists Hannah Witheridge and David Miller were found dead Monday, September 15, on a beach in Koh Tao, a popular resort island in Thailand. Koh Tao Murders: Accused recant confessions, tell embassy lawyer they were tortured. The murders on Koh Tao -- an idyllic island popular with divers -- drew intense media attention from across the world. Koh Tao Murders: Is Koh Tao Safe in 2021? A sinister and unprovoked attack by diving instructor, Santi Khokpool is featured in this video. Laura Daniels, 30, died five years after her sister Hannah, 23, was killed on Koh Tao with David Miller of Jersey. The announcement was reported in a Tweet from Andy Hall, labour rights activist, writer and researcher. Police investigators say they believe three people were involved in the murder of two British tourists on Koh Tao in Surat Thani on Sept 15. They were partially undressed and had sustained severe head injuries. She couldn’t do anything. Live Asia. Police work near the bodies after they were found on the beach. WHEN Boyne Annesley texted his daughter while she was on her island holiday, little did he know that she was already dead. However, there were hundreds of people on Koh Tao who could have been at the crime scene at that time and some of them were wolves in comparison to Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo. You can imagine when you’ve just lost a child you’re not really in the frame of mind to challenge that — it’s very raw and you don’t think about it. By Helen Regan and Angie Puranasamriddhi, CNN, Updated 0857 GMT (1657 HKT) August 29, 2019. Tropical Storm Pabuk hits Thailand. What do Australia’s AstraZeneca safety changes mean for trav... Jetstar launches cheap flights from Coolangatta, Gold Coast ... Rottnest Island accommodation already sold out for Christmas... Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. She was told she shouldn’t be doing that because it is dangerous”. But Thailand's top court Thursday upheld the death penalty, ruling that forensic evidence against the convicted men was "clear, credible, and detailed." Laura Daniels, 30, has died five years after sister Hannah, 23, was killed on Koh Tao with David Miller of Jersey. Christina had planned a four-month holiday travelling across South-East Asia, where she would visit Vietnam, Cambodia and then onto Australia and New Zealand, but died less than two weeks after she left the UK. A forensic investigator examines a bottle at a hotel room close to where the couple was found. Just what exactly happened to her before her discovery on the beach? news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site>news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site, a string of unexplained deaths on Koh Tao Island, warned of a “serial killer family” that “remains free to rape and murder”, enough deaths and suspicious disappearances to warrant the island its own CSI franchise, British Backpackers Nick Pearson and Luke Miller. “We knew nothing about Thailand being a corrupt place,” he told news.com.au. This video goes into the deep facts of the recent Koh Tao Island murder of David Miller and Hannah Witheridge. “As time went by, we started reading about it. In June last year Thailand lifted a de facto moratorium on the use of the death penalty, executing a man by lethal injection in the country's first execution since August 2009. Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo -- also known as Win Zaw Htun -- were found guilty of the rape and murder of Hannah Witheridge, 23, and the murder of David Miller, 24, on December 24, 2015. Sean McAnna fled Koh Tao after he says Thai gangsters threatened to hang him Apart from the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller in 2014, the … “A hell of a lot of people died on Koh Tao, I didn’t realise how many. In 2015, the two men -- both 22 -- were found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. To support Boyne Annesley and the parents of other children who have died on Koh Tao island, view the petition here. They. Witheridge was raped before she was murdered. Her last tweet read: “A guy just jumped over a skipping rope made of fire butt naked. (CNN)Thailand's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for two Burmese migrant workers convicted of murdering two British backpackers on a Thai resort island in 2014. “I asked for blood samples and they made it as difficult as they could. Koh Tao murders: Thai court upholds death penalty for two men convicted of killing British backpackers Wai Phyo and Zaw Lin have denied killing David Miller and … Briton David Miller who was found murdered on island of Koh Tao.Source:AAP, Hannah Witheridge was found alongside fellow victim David Miller in the early hours of the morning.Source:AAP. The bodies of the young Britons were discovered in September 2014 on a beach on Koh Tao, a small island in the Gulf of Thailand. “They didn’t find Christina for 24 hours and she’d been lying in the heat. There’s no proof because you can’t get proof because the authorities are corrupt.”. Their battered bodies were discovered on the southern diving resort in September 2014. A Swedish man was identified on CCTV footage as the last person to see her alive after he accompanied Christina to her bungalow and left the morning of her death. Recently a lower Thai court had sentence Wai Phyo and Zaw Lin to death for the murder of David and Hannah. Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Htun, the 2 young Burmese men sentenced to death over the Koh Tao British backpacker double murder in 2014, have had their sentences commuted to life in prison by the Thai monarch. Anonymous has looked into this very bizarre island and this murder case. Authorities said it was the first homicide case on the island in at least eight years. “I don’t believe we’ll ever find out what happened to her. Nationwide News Pty Limited Copyright © 2021. Now I’m really suspicious,” Mr Annesley told news.com.au over the phone from the UK. “We still haven’t accepted that,” Mr Annesley said. Thai rescue workers wrap the bodies of two British tourists who were found dead on a beach of Koh Tao island in 2014.Source:AAP. The family of Hannah Witheridge, a backpacker who was murdered in Thailand, has been “heartbroken” by a second death. Dive resorts boast of its crystal-clear waters, and Western tourists flock to its lively beach bars. A tribute and flowers sit near the spot where the couple was found. Koh Tao was plunged into the spotlight in September 2014 when the semi-naked bodies of backpackers Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24, were found on the same beach where Ben Harrington, a 32-year-old British IT consultant who died on the island in 2012, had stayed. Koh Tao was plunged into the spotlight in September 2014 when the semi-naked bodies of backpackers Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24, were found on the same beach where Ben Harrington, a 32-year-old British IT consultant who died on the island in 2012, had stayed. This video goes into the deep facts of the recent Koh Tao Island murder of David Miller and Hannah Witheridge. They wanted to charge me exorbitant funds to get them,” he said. Burmese bar workers Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Tun were found guilty of murder … In commemoration of the late King’s birthday which falls on December 5, their … Mrs. Daniels had been seriously ill, said the family statement confirming that she passed away on Sept. 16. koh tao murders – lost in translation In migrant workers , murders , Uncategorised by Andrew Drummond 4th October 2014 5 Comments The last article on this site “Boiling water and beatings, claim Burmese workers” has been deliberately mistranslated and is currently circulating around Thai media and social networking sites stating that I wrote that the men under arrest had been tortured. Many bloggers and internet users online had said that these two Burmese migrants were actually scapegoats. ", He added that the forensics evidence relied upon to convict the pair was "in my opinion fundamentally flawed and should always have been considered unreliable when considered against international standards on DNA and forensics usage in criminal trials.". Initially, Mr Annesley, who was born in New Zealand and moved to the UK when Christina was young, thought Christina may have died from a suspected combination of medication — notably tramadol — and alcohol, after apparently taking a concoction of antibiotics for tonsillitis. But obviously she wasn’t replying because she was already dead,” he said. But behind the beauty lies a macabre secret where local mafia allegedly rule, backpackers flock to party and, according to one report, there are “enough deaths and suspicious disappearances to warrant the island its own CSI franchise”. Koh Tao. As the deaths on the island began to spread and the devastated families left behind began to chatter among themselves, the rumours began to tell a darker side to the story. A number of tourist deaths on this island in recent years have shocked the world. "I express my deepest sympathy to all those whose lives have been touched and changed forever by this tragic case," he said. Live Asia. The Supreme Court’s verdict in the Koh Tao murder case appeal by Burmese migrants Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo against their death penalty sentence, will be read at 10 at tomorrow at the Nonthaburi Court. Picture: iStockSource:Supplied. Many bloggers and internet users online had said that these two Burmese migrants were actually scapegoats. The two Burmese men, identified as Saw and Win, were arrested last week and accused of killing David Miller, 24, and Hannah Witheridge, 23, on the island of Koh Tao on 15 September. YANGON----Win Zaw Tun and Zaw Lin who were sentenced for life in Koh Tao murder in Thailand has been commuted to 50 years sentence according to Director Aung Myo Min from Equality Myanmar. British Backpackers Nick Pearson and Luke Miller, along with Belgian Elise Dellemagne, Swiss Hans Peter Suter and French Dimitri Povse were also found dead. They were not in a fit state to examine, that’s what she said.”, Christina’s father Boyne said he doubts he and his wife Margaret will ever find out how his 23-year-old daughter died.Source:news.com.au, Christina was found dead in January 2015, in a bungalow on the Thai island of Koh Tao.Source:news.com.au. Most distressing among them were the murders of British youngsters Hannah Witheridge and David Miller, who were brutally killed on the southern island of Koh Tao … “In the back of my mind I had a feeling there might be something wrong. 0 Comments. A NOTE ABOUT RELEVANT ADVERTISING: We collect information about the content (including ads) you use across this site and use it to make both advertising and content more relevant to you on our network and other sites. “I just think they don’t want you to find out. In the days leading up to her death, Christina tweeted: “Seriously if Koh Tao is a sleepy diver’s paradise what the hell is Koh Phanghan like.”. Miller's body is carried to a forensic police facility in Bangkok on Tuesday, September 16. The Burmese men, from Myanmar's Rakhine state, were working in the hospitality industry on the island at the time of the incident. Anonymous has looked into this very bizarre island and this murder case. Andy Hall, international affairs adviser to the official legal defense team, said that while he respected the decision of the court, the death penalty sentence against the two should "be reversed and quashed. KOH TAO, Thailand — Promoters call the Thai island of Koh Tao a paradise. “When I asked for the CCTV tape, I only wanted to see them because it was the last photos of our little girl alive, and they said I’d have to pay for them, then they said it was lost. Nick Pearson, 25, was found floating in an island bay, at the foot of a 50ft drop by scuba divers in the sea after he disappeared following a night out with his family on New Year's Eve. Fact is that they found another dead body, one of the many tourist deaths in Thailand per year. Relatives of Witheridge hug before a police briefing in Bangkok on September 18. Myanmar nationals Win Zaw Tun (L) and Zaw Lin look out from a prison transport van as they arrive at court for the start of their trial on the Thai resort island of Koh Samui in 2015. After a string of unexplained deaths on Koh Tao Island, located in the Gulf of Thailand near the party islands of Koh Phangan and Koh Samui, people are beginning to question the legitimacy of its authorities after the parents of the dead, including Mr Annesley, warned of a “serial killer family” that “remains free to rape and murder”. Egypt confirms ‘lost golden city’ found in Luxor during King... Sculpture at Scenic World: Art exhibit in Blue Mountains. — Share your story with Matt Young on Twitter or Facebook. Killings Rattle Quiet Thailand Resort Island, The white sand beach of Nan Yuan Island, an eight-minute drive from Koh Tao, is one district that hides a macabre secret. Thai police are investigating their deaths as murder and searching for suspects. The island of Koh Tao, otherwise known as Turtle Island, is a scuba diver’s dream, and thanks to Sairee Beach, on its west coast, tourism has flourished in recent years. My main concern was to get her home and in a presentable state so we could at least view her,” Mr Annesley told news.com.au. Christina, a prolific tweeter, posted numerous thoughts in the days leading up to her death. Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. As body parts are found floating in its water, some within this small, untouched part of the world fear the local mafia is out of control. IT’S supposed to be a paradise, but parents of tourists allegedly murdered in a nearby utopia have told visitors to stay away. Christina’s body was discovered just a few months later, in January 2015, in the same location where David and Hannah Witheridge were found. Witheridge was raped before she was murdered. The white sand beach of Nang Yuan Island, an eight-minute taxi boat ride from Koh Tao, is one district that hides a macabre secret. Speaking outside the courtroom in Bangkok, head defense lawyer for the pair, Nakhon Chomphuchat, said they would seek a royal pardon, which must be submitted within 60 days. Unfortunately another tragic accident occurred on Koh Tao in January 2018 with a British traveller was found death in a hotel pool. Dedication to 20 foreigners who died on Koh Tao. The two victim’s bodies were reportedly found amongst rocks in a relatively secluded I don’t even know if it existed,” Mr Annesley said. Mrs Daniels had been gravely ill, said the … Koh Tao Murder Case Investigation: Background In the early morning of 15th September 2014, two young British tourists Hannah Witheridge (23) and David Miller (24) were murdered on Koh Tao, a popular tourist destination in the Gulf of Thailand. They have been charged with premeditated murder, among other crimes, and could face execution. “I remember texting her because we were trying to get hold of her for 24 hours saying, ‘are you all right’ — apparently the internet connection wasn’t very good. Defense lawyers for the two men later alleged that police had rushed the investigation in order to avoid Thailand losing its image as one of the world's most popular tourist destinations. It was only when police arrived at his door that he knew something had gone terribly wrong. Mr Annesley said he was hopeful a petition, which was handed over to the UK parliament on behalf of the parents of children who have died on Koh Tao, would provoke people “to stop going to that island until it is safe”. Myanmar workers convicted of Koh Tao murders hold out hope for clemency By Coconuts Bangkok Dec 8, 2020 | 5:43pm Bangkok time Zaw Lin, at center, and Win Zaw Tun, at right, leave the court on Aug. 29, 2019, in Nonthaburi province after the verdict regarding their conviction for murdering two British backpackers on the holiday island of Koh Tao. The brutal murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller exposed a dark side to life on the picture postcard holiday island of Koh Tao By Philip Sherwell 24 December 2015 • 9:32am