UK Police Broke Law in Koh Tao Murder Case
According to The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com), the UK’s National Crime Agency has admitted breaking the law in the Koh Tao murder case, in which they helped to convict two migrant workers.
Hannah Witheridge and David Miller were killed in September 2014 and two Burmese workers were charged with their murder. Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo have maintained their innocence, claiming to have been tortured by police. Nevertheless, they now face the death penalty.
London’s High Court recently found that the NCA broke the law by secretly providing information to Thai police, including the victims’ phone location data, which helped prosecutors to make a conviction.
Thai criminal defense lawyers (http://www.thailand-lawyer.com/criminal-defense.html) representing Lin and Phyo said that this information was “the only data that was used as evidence by the prosecution at trial”.
Read the full story here (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/aug/29/uk-police-broke-law-in-case-of-british-backpackers-murdered-in-thailand).
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