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From Daily Star

 

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/422199/Thai-mayor-blames-UK-press-for-ruining-tourism-trade-after-murder-of-backpackers

 

Koh Tao has seen trade plummet since David Miller, 24, and Hannah Witheridge, 23, were brutally murdered last September.

After Christina Annesley, 23, died on the same island last week, Mayor Chaiyan Turasakul hit out at the British press.

 

He said: “It may mislead foreign tourists who have never been to Koh Tao to think that it’s full of mafia who like to kill or exploit tourists.

“This is really what some tourists think, I’ve seen them talking on social media.

“They have assumptions that match what they think, they publish these assumptions, because that’s how the media works: do whatever they can to draw readers.â€

 

Speaking to a local newspaper, Mr Turasakul also slammed the behaviour of foreign tourists on the island.

He added: “They want to have fun, they want to go all the way and liberate themselves.

“They like to do things without caring much about other people, but we cannot interfere with them much - this is reality.â€

 

Local officials are claiming there is no proof of foul play in Christina’s death.

She was staying in a guesthouse owned by the family whose son was originally accused of murdering David and Hannah, Warot Tuwichian, before being cleared after DNA tests, and wrote online she had taken a “bucketload†of painkillers to treat a chest infection shortly before her death.

Her distraught mum wants the body to be returned to Britain for a fresh autopsy for fear of a cover-up after the bungling investigation into last September’s murders.

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"Her distraught mum wants the body to be returned to Britain for a fresh autopsy for fear of a cover-up after the bungling investigation into last September’s murders."

 

Her ashes will be ... after her cremation.

 

p.s. Another Brit gal is missing on Koh Tao! Purely coincidence, of course.

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