Backpacker Accused: I Was Tortured Naked

Burmese migrant worker Zaw Lin, 22, claims police also tried to extract a confession by blindfolding him and suffocating him with plastic bags until he collapsed. He and co-accused Wei Phyo are alleged to have murdered Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24, on 14 September last year on the island of Koh Tao. Zaw Lin told the court in neighbouring Koh Samui how he was woken in the early hours of 2 October, 2014, to find 10 men gathered in the dormitory he shared with oth