On Christmas Eve last year Burmese migrants Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo were found guilty and sentenced to death for the murder of former Victoria College student Mr Miller (24) and the murder and rape of Norfolk-born Hannah Witheridge (23) on the island of Koh Tao in September 2014.
On Monday, five months on from the Koh Samui court’s verdict, a team of defence lawyers lodged an appeal on behalf of their clients calling for their guilty verdicts to be quashed.
The team of nine lawyers, who have been working closely with Burmese, British and Australian assistants, translators and advisers, say almost half of their appeal is focused on the reliability of DNA evidence and they claim the evidence is ‘inadmissible and should not have been considered by the court’, as it was not ‘collected, tested, analysed or reported in accordance with internationally accepted forensic standards’.
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