Two Myanmar migrant workers sentenced to death for the murder of two British backpackers on a Thai holiday island will learn their fate Thursday ...
NONTHABURI, Thailand: Thailand's Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the death sentences of Myanmar migrant workers in the high-profile murder of two British backpackers on the popular tourist island of Koh Tao in 2014.
Prosecutors insisted the evidence against the men from Myanmar's impoverished Rakhine state was clear, and a lower court upheld their conviction in 2017. Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Tun arrived at the court on Thursday morning, on the outskirts of Bangkok in tan prison jumpsuits."The death penalty sentence against the two accused and their conviction should be reversed and quashed."
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