Thai officials asked murdered backpacker’s family ‘what’s the fuss?’

The sister of a British backpacker murdered in Thailand has attacked the country’s authorities for dismissing her family’s grief.

Thai officials asked murdered backpacker’s family ‘what’s the fuss?’

Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24, were brutally murdered on a beach on the island of Koh Tao in September 2014.

Miss Witheridge, from Norfolk, was raped before she was killed, while Mr Miller, from Jersey, was hit over the head before drowning in the sea.

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