Did anyone hear of this story
Sad and bloody disgraceful and my thoughts go out to Lindy and family
This happened about 50NM from where we plan on basing ourselves when the boat goes in.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/03/25/horror-in-paradise-115875-21226127/
full listing here, the story seems to have been kept quiet in Thai media.
http://news.google.com/news?source=...d4syiCg&sa=X&oi=news_result&resnum=1&ct=title
Dave
Sad and bloody disgraceful and my thoughts go out to Lindy and family
This happened about 50NM from where we plan on basing ourselves when the boat goes in.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/03/25/horror-in-paradise-115875-21226127/
HORROR IN PARADISE
By Euan Stretch 25/03/2009
EXCLUSIVE Brit killed and thrown off yacht by pirate trio
Devastated Lindy Robertson told yesterday how she was tied up naked and kept prisoner for 12 hours by pirates who murdered her husband and threw his body off their yacht.
The three killers boarded Lindy and Malcolm's boat as it lay anchored off an island near the coast of Thailand and were trying to steal its dinghy when the British man confronted them.
Lindy, who is recovering in a Thai hospital, yesterday rang home to tell brother John Clee how she lay in bed on the yacht listening in horror as 64-year-old Malcolm tried to fight off the attackers.
She sobbed: "They've murdered Malcolm. I know they've murdered him."
John said Lindy and Malcolm had been sleeping in separate cabins because the night was so unbearably hot. He added: "Lindy heard a commotion and shouted for Malcolm.
"Then she heard him go up on deck and shout for people to get off the boat. There was a skirmish and she heard a splosh before it went deadly silent. She lay in terror and three of them came in and tied her up. She was naked so it was especially horrific. They kept her prisoner for eight to 12 hours, only untying her enough to make her sail the boat when they needed her, then tying her up again.
"All the time she was convinced Malcolm was dead and they were going to do her in when they had finished with her."
The pirates, who spoke no English, let the yacht drift away from the isle of Koh Dong as they ransacked it.
They eventually left the yacht - taking the dinghy that they had loaded with valuables, including a laptop and a camera.
As soon as they had gone Lindy, 58, from St Leonards, East Sussex, made for a nearby fishing boat and raised the alarm. John said: "She knew she could easily outrun the pirates.
"Lindy was able to tell police exactly which direction the pirates had taken off in. The launch was so slow they wouldn't have got far so officers soon caught up in their boat and arrested them. One of the worst bits for Lindy was having to come back in the same police boat as the pirates."
Three migrant fishermen from Burma were yesterday being questioned on suspicion of murdering Malcolm, a retired businessman. They are reported to have confessed to punching him and beating him with a hammer on Monday night.
When he yelled for help they allegedly cut his throat and bundled him overboard. No body has yet been found. Colonel Virat Ohn-song of the Thai police said: "They tried to steal the dinghy and beat Mr Robertson with their fists and hammers until he died. We believe from our interview with his wife that Mr. Robertson was dead before he was thrown into the water.
"This is very bad. Very bad. There was a lot of blood in the boat's main cabin where the struggle took place."
Malcolm and Lindy were on the last leg of a round-the-world yachting adventure that began more than a decade ago.
full listing here, the story seems to have been kept quiet in Thai media.
http://news.google.com/news?source=...d4syiCg&sa=X&oi=news_result&resnum=1&ct=title
Dave