Police in Thailand are continuing to search for a backpacker linked to the brutal murders of a British man and a woman on one its idyllic islands, according to reports.

Two British tourists have been found dead on a beach in southern Thailand following a “gruesome” attack.

A WOMAN and two men have been convicted of murdering a teenager who was doused in petrol and then burned alive in Britain, police said.

Daniel Entwistle, the missing seven-year-old who police fear could have fallen into a river, cannot swim and has a learning disorder which can affect his awareness of danger, police said tonight.

Detectives investigating the disappearance of a seven-year-old boy missing for two days were today following up several potential sightings of the youngster on the day he went missing.