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HomeNewsLatest News'Thai mafia are trying to kill me' Brit told to hang himself by gangsters 'Thai mafia are trying to kill me' Brit told to hang himself by gangsters A TERRIFIED man yesterday fled the isle where two Brits were killed saying, “The Thai mafia want to murder me, too.”
PROBE: Sean McAnna claims two men wanted him to kill himself [SG]
Sean McAnna says mobsters threatened to frame him for the crime then hang him, making his death look like a suicide.Earlier he posted pictures of two men he says were involved in the deaths of his pal David Miller and companion Hanna Witheridge.Sean said he was approached by local men at the nightclub on Koh Tao island, where David, 24, and Hannah, 23, had been before they were killed.He added: “They just said to me: ‘It was you who killed them. You’ve got two people’s deaths on your hands.“‘You’re going to hang yourself tonight and we are going to watch you hang. You will die tonight.’ So I just ran.”He hid in a supermarket, where the gangsters tried to persuade him to come out.Sean said they wanted him to be a scapegoat. He added: “They want it to be a westerner. So if I kill myself here, if I hang myself here, then it is easy to say: ‘See, it was him.’”
“Police questioned the two men who hassled Sean but no arrests were made”
Sean, of Shotts, Lanarkshire, who is not a suspect, only left the store when police arrived hours later.His terrifying stand-off was played out over Facebook where he had posted pictures of two men. He pleaded: “The mafia are trying to kill me. Please help.”His desperate plea prompted a huge social media reaction as family, friends and strangers tried to alert authorities.Nicola McAnna posted: “He is in a shop… someone help him. They are waiting outside. They are going to kill him. Please.”Messages were shared hundreds of times and the hashtag #savesean circulated on Twitter.Posts then had to be taken down under the instruction of the British Embassy in Thailand, who feared they might worsen matters.Police questioned the two men who hassled Sean but no arrests were made.They plan blood tests on every male on the island at the time of the murders as they hunt the killer.
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'Thai mafia are trying to kill me' Brit told to hang himself by gangsters | Daily Star
HomeNewsLatest News'Thai mafia are trying to kill me' Brit told to hang himself by gangsters 'Thai mafia are trying to kill me' Brit told to hang himself by gangsters A TERRIFIED man yesterday fled the isle where two Brits were killed saying, “The Thai mafia want to murder me, too.”
PROBE: Sean McAnna claims two men wanted him to kill himself [SG]
Sean McAnna says mobsters threatened to frame him for the crime then hang him, making his death look like a suicide.Earlier he posted pictures of two men he says were involved in the deaths of his pal David Miller and companion Hanna Witheridge.Sean said he was approached by local men at the nightclub on Koh Tao island, where David, 24, and Hannah, 23, had been before they were killed.He added: “They just said to me: ‘It was you who killed them. You’ve got two people’s deaths on your hands.“‘You’re going to hang yourself tonight and we are going to watch you hang. You will die tonight.’ So I just ran.”He hid in a supermarket, where the gangsters tried to persuade him to come out.Sean said they wanted him to be a sca
pegoat. He added: “They want it to be a westerner. So if I kill myself here, if I hang myself here, then it is easy to say: ‘See, it was him.’”
“Police questioned the two men who hassled Sean but no arrests were made”
Sean, of Shotts, Lanarkshire, who is not a suspect, only left the store when police arrived hours later.His terrifying stand-off was played out over Facebook where he had posted pictures of two men. He pleaded: “The mafia are trying to kill me. Please help.”His desperate plea prompted a huge social media reaction as family, friends and strangers tried to alert authorities.Nicola McAnna posted: “He is in a shop… someone help him. They are waiting outside. They are going to kill him. Please.”Messages were shared hundreds of times and the hashtag #savesean circulated on Twitter.Posts then had to be taken down under the instruction of the British Embassy in Thailand, who feared they might worsen matters.Police questioned the two men who hassled Sean but no arrests were made.They plan blood tests on every male on the island at the time of the murders as they hunt the killer.
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