BANGKOK, Oct 31 — The DNA test result for the Ko Tao village headman’s son from Police General Hospital don’t match DNA found on the British tourists killed on the small Gulf of Thailand island seven weeks ago, said a spokesman of the Royal Thai Police on Friday.
Spokesman Pol Lt Gen Prawut Thavornsiri said samples for DNA testing taken from Warot Tuwichian, son of Woraphan, a village headman of Ko Tao, on Thursday at Police General Hospital showed that the young man’s DNA did not match with evidence at the crime scene.
DNA test results on Mr Warot sent to three other state hospitals are expected early tomorrow, he said.
Blood tests and mouth swabs were taken from Mr Warot, 22, after some social media observers argued that he was seen in CCTV footage in front of a Ko Tao bar which the victims visited on the night of the murders.
The bar is owned Mr Warot’s father.
The bodies of Hannah Victoria Witheridge, 23, and David William Miller, 24, were found on a Koh Tao beach near Surat Thani early on September 15.
Both were brutally murdered, and Miss Witheridge was raped.
To date, two Myanmar migrant workers on the island have been apprehended and charged by police with murdering the British tourists.
The suspects confessed under interrogation but later retracted their confessions, saying they were coerced by police investigators.
