 Sgt Somchai Visetsingha faces two charges of murder |
A Thai police officer has been charged with killing two Britons in Thailand. Sgt Somchai Visetsingha is accused of killing backpackers Adam Lloyd, 25, from Northamptonshire, and Vanessa Arscott, 24, of Devon, on 9 September.
Sgt Somchai, 39, is also charged with the illegal possession of a weapon and with evading arrest. He is expected to enter a plea within days.
His trial is due to follow within a month. If found guilty he faces an automatic death sentence.
The deaths of the two Britons and the subsequent hunt for their alleged killer attracted widespread coverage in the British media at the time.
The couple were killed while travelling in the Kanchanaburi region - an area that attracts thousands of visitors every year to the famous Bridge of the River Kwai.
A decision to grant Sgt Somchai bail has angered relatives of the victims. A spokesman for the Foreign Office called the couple "victims of a senseless murder".
One-Minute World News 
News services
E-mail this to a friend 
Printable version 
