"Death Island"- foreigner deaths on Koh Tao remain unexplained.
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 10:09 am
With all the media attention that was concentrated on the "Koh Tao murders" of David Miller and Hannah Witherdige, the deaths of other foreigners on the island tend to be forgotten. However, many of them died under strange circumstances...
The death of Luke Miller Koh Tao – one year on
One year ago the body of British holiday maker Luke Miller was found in the swimming pool of the Sunset Bar in Koh Tao. According to both the police and the owners of the Sunset Bar his death was caused by misadventure when a Luke Miller funeraldrunk or possibly drugged Luke climbed on top of a DJ stand and dived into the pool.
However, Luke’s travel companions did not swallow this story and neither did anybody else who could not understand why a party goer would make such a jump when it was obvious nobody was watching. The body of Luke Miller was not discovered until the following day. Also cause for concern where the injuries to Luke’s face the police suggested were caused by the barbed wire Luke would have had to climb over to make his jump, yet this seems to the rational mind to be simply another reason why the ‘jump’ story makes no sense what so ever.
A Thai post-mortem on Luke, 26 and from the Isle of Wight say he drowned but made no mention of bruises that resembled hand prints found on the upper part of this body.
There has been much speculation about what happened on that fateful night. We do know that CCTV footage places Luke at the Sunset Bar until the early hours of the morning, however security guards did not find him in the pool when they made their rounds at 5.30am the following morning, in fact his body was not discovered until around 7.20am.
The Samui Times was also told just after his death that Luke was not a swimmer and would never have got into the water alone. He also had an altercation over a lost motorbike key from the moped he was renting only hours before his death...
Full article: http://www.samuitimes.com/the-death-of- ... e-year-on/
The death of Luke Miller Koh Tao – one year on
One year ago the body of British holiday maker Luke Miller was found in the swimming pool of the Sunset Bar in Koh Tao. According to both the police and the owners of the Sunset Bar his death was caused by misadventure when a Luke Miller funeraldrunk or possibly drugged Luke climbed on top of a DJ stand and dived into the pool.
However, Luke’s travel companions did not swallow this story and neither did anybody else who could not understand why a party goer would make such a jump when it was obvious nobody was watching. The body of Luke Miller was not discovered until the following day. Also cause for concern where the injuries to Luke’s face the police suggested were caused by the barbed wire Luke would have had to climb over to make his jump, yet this seems to the rational mind to be simply another reason why the ‘jump’ story makes no sense what so ever.
A Thai post-mortem on Luke, 26 and from the Isle of Wight say he drowned but made no mention of bruises that resembled hand prints found on the upper part of this body.
There has been much speculation about what happened on that fateful night. We do know that CCTV footage places Luke at the Sunset Bar until the early hours of the morning, however security guards did not find him in the pool when they made their rounds at 5.30am the following morning, in fact his body was not discovered until around 7.20am.
The Samui Times was also told just after his death that Luke was not a swimmer and would never have got into the water alone. He also had an altercation over a lost motorbike key from the moped he was renting only hours before his death...
Full article: http://www.samuitimes.com/the-death-of- ... e-year-on/
