A British backpacker is in hiding after naming the alleged killer of David Millerand Hannah Witheridge in Thailand.
Sean McAnna, a friend of Mr Miller, claimed in a Facebook posting which has since been deleted, that the owner of a bar on the island of Koh Tao was responsible.
The 26-year-old, from Lanark, also uploaded photos of two men who approached him in a bar after claiming the Thai mafia were trying to kill him.
‘They said to me “it was you who killed them, we know it was you”…I think they needed ascapegoat,’ he told a newspaper.
‘They said “you’re going to hang yourself tonight, we’re going to watch you hang”, so I just ran.’
He fled to a 24-hour store and has since left the island by ferry.
In an earlier tribute to Mr Miller, he posted: ‘I loved you so f****** much brother. I know you tried to save her. You are the most honourable guy I’ve ever met.’
Other ex-pats have said much of the island is in the control ‘of locally powerful mafia-like families’.
The badly beaten bodies of Miss Witheridge, 23, from Great Yarmouth, and Mr Miller, 24, from Jersey, were found on a beach on Monday last week.
Police are reportedly ready to DNA test every man on the island.
They are waiting on the results of tests on a 28-year-old speedboat driver arrested on drugs charges. Locals reported he had been acting in a ‘crazy manner’.
http://metro.co.uk/2014/09/22/thailand-murders-briton-flees-island-after-naming-suspect-on-facebook-4878238/
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