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British police to return from Thailand in backpacker murder probe

British police who travelled to Thailand to review the investigation into the murders of backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller are due to return to the UK, having completed their work "as far as possible".

Metropolitan Police officers flew out to the Thai island of Koh Tao last month to work with the Royal Thai Police after an agreement between David Cameron and military ruler General Prayuth Chan-ocha.

Mr Miller, 24, from Jersey, and 23-year-old Ms Witheridge, from Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, were found dead on a Koh Tao beach in September.

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Burmese workers who confessed to Brit killings paraded by police

Two Burmese workers, who have confessed to the killing of British tourists on the Thai island of Koh Tao, have been paraded by police.

The pair, whose names were given only as Saw and Win, were taken to the island as police carried out a reconstruction of the night David Miller, 24, and Hannah Witheridge, 23, were brutally killed.

General Somyot Poompanmoung, Thailand's national police chief, said they both face charges of murder, rape and theft.

He added that DNA results, CCTV footage and other evidence supported the men's confessions that they raped and killed Ms Witheridge and murdered Mr Miller.

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