Prime suspect in Koh Tao murders loses bid to become village headman. Montriwat (Mon) Toowuchien
Channel: KOH TAO MURDERS DEATH ISLAND
Date: 2021-06-14

According to Su Buchanan, the original owner and editor of the Samui Times online news service, "Mon" a hotel owner and manager of the notorious AC Bar lost his bid to become village headman for Koh Tao.

In September 2014, Mon and Worat "Nomsod" Toowuchien were identified by Police Lieutenant General Panya Mamen as being implicated in the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller by virtue of some CCTV footage.

Almost immediately after Panya publicly identified those two men, he was removed from the case and the Royal Thai Police turned their attention to securing convictions against two young Burmese men who had no criminal records.  Confessions were extracted under torture and a Thai police laboratory that lacked the appropriate accreditation to perform certain DNA tests, concocted some bogus "DNA evidence" in the form of an "unendorsed report."  With the greatest respect to the Samui Provincial Court, that unendorsed report should never have been accepted as evidence, but it was and two young migrant workers were convicted of the murders.

Originally they were sentenced to death but in August 2020 their sentences were commuted to life sentences as part of a mass amnesty for prisoners in commemoration of the Thai king's birthday.       

Scientific Fraud and Torture used to secure convictions against Burmese scapegoats:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZptRms-IAO8

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