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BRIT KILLERS WILL DIE

Murderers of British backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller WILL be killed as Thailand court upholds death sentence

The tragic pair were bludgeoned to death by Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo in 2014

TWO Burmese men who killed two British backpackers in Thailand have lost an appeal to get their death sentences overturned.

Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo, from Myanmar, had launched the appeal after they were convicted of murdering Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24.

Hannah Witheridge was raped and killed in Koh Tao in 2014
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Hannah Witheridge was raped and killed in Koh Tao in 2014Credit: PA:Press Association
Fellow Brit David Miller was bludgeoned to death
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Fellow Brit David Miller was bludgeoned to deathCredit: EPA/BRITISH FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH
Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo were sentenced to death for the murders
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Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo were sentenced to death for the murdersCredit: AP:Associated Press

The pair were bludgeoned to death with a wooden hoe as they walked back to their hotel rooms late at night on a beach in Koh Tao.

Hannah was raped during the horror in September 2014.

Lin and Phyo initially confessed to the killings but then retracted their statements saying they were tortured.

The three judges who handed down the guilty verdicts and death penalties concluded the prosecution proved its case with forensic evidence that met “international standards” linking the two men to the murders.

The pair were forced to do a re-enactment of the murders after confessing
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The pair were forced to do a re-enactment of the murders after confessingCredit: Barcroft Media
The Brits were bludgeoned to death with a wooden hoe as they walked back to their hotel rooms late at night on a beach in Koh Tao
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The Brits were bludgeoned to death with a wooden hoe as they walked back to their hotel rooms late at night on a beach in Koh TaoCredit: Getty Images
Lin and Phyo initially confessed to the killings but then retracted their statements saying they were tortured
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Lin and Phyo initially confessed to the killings but then retracted their statements saying they were torturedCredit: EPA

But Lin and Phyo launched an appeal against the death sentences disputing DNA evidence used to convict them.

A court in Koh Samui today upheld the sentences given to the migrant workers.

Judges said evidence presented at the trial in December 2015 was adequate and reliable.

 

The trial came following accusations Lin and Phyo, who were migrant workers on the island, were being used as scapegoats by desperate investigators.

The pair were forced to re-enact the murders after confessing.

Bizarre pictures showed them handcuffed wearing bicycle helmets surrounded by cops as they reconstructed the attack on Sairee beach.

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