Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo were sentenced to death for the rape and murder of 23-year-old Hannah Witheridge from Norfolk, and the murder of 24-year-old David Miller from Jersey.
They attended the opening of the trial in July when they said they ‘simply want to see justice done fairly and openly‘. The two migrants denied the accusations. The police said Witheridge had been raped, and that DNA evidence from semen retrieved from her body was at the heart of the prosecution’s case. “We believe the correct verdict has been reached”.
Burmese migrants Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo, also known as Win Zaw Htun, initially confessed to the killings but later retracted their statements – claiming they had been tortured by police.
Results from the investigation would appear to show that semen of both men was found inside the British Witheridge, the court said in its ruling the evidence from the crime scene and the witnesses “confirmed without any doubt” what Htun and Lin had done. (Courtesy of tvnewsroom.org)
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