The National Human Rights Commission of Thailand has submitted a report to the Thai government which should help the two suspects facing trial in the Koh Tao murder case.
The report was drawn up after representatives of the Commission met up with Thai police, prosecution witnesses and the two suspects on 20th October U Win Maung, the Myanmar Ambassador to Thailand, told Mizzima on 22nd October.
He said: “The commission, Lawyers Council of Thailand and Myanmar groups held a meeting and discussed how to cooperate in the trial. Some facts scrutinized by the commission cannot be disclosed [now]. Those facts will give a helping hand [to the suspects] facing trial."
U Kyaw Thaung, a Myanmar Supreme Court lawyer from the Myanmar embassy’s special team, said: “The commission knows the suspects were tortured. Although they did not say exactly how they would take legal action against those who tortured the suspects, they said they would try to get rid of injustices like this in Thailand.”
The parents of the two suspects Ko Win Zaw Tun and Ko Zaw Lin Oo arrived in Thailand on 22nd October and on the following day will visit Koh Samui Prison where the two suspects are detained, according to U Kyaw Thaung.
The suspects were arrested on 3rd October by Thai police on Koh Tao in connection with the murder of two British tourists, Ms Hannah Witheridge, 23, and Mr David Miller, 24, on the island on 15th September.
