Two Myanmar migrant workers sentenced to death by Samui Provincial Court for the murder of two British backpackers were transferred from Samui to tighter security prison in Nakhon Si Thammarat province early this morning.

Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo, guilty of the murder of David Miller and the rape and murder of Hannah Witheridge on Koh Tao in September last year, were brought out of their prison in Samui prison on a heavily guarded prison van to board a ferry at 5 am to Don Sak pier from where they were sent to Nakhon Si Thammarat central prison.

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