Public prosecutors wait for more information from police on Koh Tao murder case

SURAT THANI, THAILAND, October 28 (TNA) - Public prosecutors are waiting for more information from police before forwarding a case in which two Myanmar migrants are suspected of killing two British tourists on Kao Tao in the Gulf of Thailand off Surat Thani Province in the Thai South last month to a local court. Tawatchai Siangjaew, Executive Director of Thailand's Public Prosecution Office, Region 8, who handles the case, told journalists of the update on Monday. Meanwhile, parents of the two Koh Tao murder suspects, Win Zaw Htun and Zaw Lin, petitioned the attorney general for justice on Tuesday morning, as they believe in their sons’ innocence. Accompanied by lawyers and representatives of the Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok, the parents, who visited their sons at the Koh Samui Prison in Surat Thani last Friday, submitted the written complaint to the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) in Bangkok, through an OAG deputy spokesman, Kosolnawat Inthujanyong. The Myanmar delegation later went to the Office of the National Human Rights Commission (ONHRC) in the capital to file the same petition. A human rights commissioner, Niran Pitakwatchara, said the NHRC will verify the Myanmar parents's claim that their sons were assaulted and forced to confess and will inquire about the case from police again on November 3. The two Myanmar men have been suspected of brutally murdering the two British tourists, 23-year-old Hannah Witheridge and 24-year-old David Miller, whose bodies were found on a beach on Koh Tao in the early morning of September 15. (TNA)