Thai police:There are no scapegoats in murder of Britons in Thai South

BANGKOK, October 30 (TNA) - National Police Chief Police General Somyot Pumpanmuang has insisted that Thai police did not arrest scapegoats in the murder of two British tourists on Koh Tao in the Gulf of Thailand off Surat Thani Province in the Thai South last month. Police General Somyot made the confirmation on Thursday, stressing that Thai police did not force two arrested Myanmar suspects to confess in the murder case. The national police chief's remarks followed the updated situation, in which Worapan Tuwichian, head of Moo 1 village on Koh Tao brought his son, Warot, for DNA tests in Bangkok earlier in the day to prove his innocence. The father and his son met the national police chief and doctors from Chulalongkorn, Siriraj, Ramathibodi and Police Hospitals in the capital to have the son's DNA samples collected for the lab tests, with the result expected to be known within 24 hours. The village head said he and his son intended to prove that his son had nothing to do with the murder of the two British tourists on Koh Tao on September 15. According to the national police chief, Thai police had not questioned the village head's son because it was verified that he was not on Koh Tao on the murder date, but the DNA tests were the intention of the village head's family to prove the innocence. Meanwhile, the suspects' parents sought help from the Lawyers' Council of Thailand on Wednesday, when the council's chairman, Det-udom Krairit, promised to handle their case by himself and has sent 20 lawyers to Koh Tao to collect relevant information. Local tourism on Koh Tao's adjacent Koh Samui is, however, lively for Halloween activities on October 31. (TNA)