Burmese men have convictions upheld over murder of British tourists in Thailand
THE killers of two British backpackers could be freed after bombshell letters from their high-security prison in Thailand have emerged.Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo are escorted by a Thai police officer after they were sentenced to death in 2015They initially confessed to the killings but then retracted their statements saying they were tortured.
"I think I will get out of prison in a few more years... as I have already been in prison a long time.Zaw Lin's letters were sent from one of these cells in Thailand's infamous Bang Kwang Prison, often known as the Bangkok Hilton"They should set me free now. I am sad to think I wasted my young life in prison for nothing.”
Supporters of the duo also argued they had been framed because their initial confessions were made under duress.In broken English – which he has learned in jail – Zaw Lin has now said: “Amnesty is for all who stay with good behaviour in prison."The rest never saw the amnesties which were delivered between 2020 and 2023.they found out is probably from cigarettes and not from the death bodies . They didn’t actually have any other concrete evidence to convict and give me death sentence.
David was travelling throughout Thailand after completing his undergraduate degree in civil and structural engineering at the University of Leeds.
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