Anonymous hackers bring down Thai websites over death sentences handed to ‘killers’ of British tourists

Hacking group shut down Thai judicial websites in protest over the verdicts

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Hannah Witheridge and David Miller were killed on a beach on the island of Koh Tao in 2014. Photo: EPA

Published: 8:00pm, 13 Jan 2016Updated: 7:22pm, 6 Jun 2019

Anonymous hackers have attacked hundreds of Thai government websites on Wednesday over death sentences handed down to two migrant workers for the murder of two British tourists.

A court sentenced Myanmar migrant workers Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Htun, both 22, to death on Dec. 24 after finding them guilty of murdering tourists Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24, on a beach on the island of Koh Tao in 2014.

Witheridge had been raped and bludgeoned to death, according to police, and Miller suffered severe head injuries and was left to drown in the surf.

Zaw Lin has been sentenced to death. Photo: EPA

But the investigation drew allegations of police incompetence, torture and mishandling of evidence.

Police rejected the complaints but protests erupted in neighbouring Myanmar after the verdict, with many people there believing the two workers, who denied killing the tourists, were scapegoats.

Anonymous hackers bring down Thai websites over death sentences handed to ‘killers’ of British tourists

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