Two Burmese men have been found guilty and sentenced to death for murdering two UK tourists in Thailand last year.
Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo killed Hannah Witheridge, 23, from Norfolk, and David Miller, 24, from Jersey, judges said.
The backpackers' bodies were found on a beach on the southern Thai island of Koh Tao on 15 September 2014.
The men, migrants from Myanmar, initially confessed to the killings but later retracted their statements saying they had been tortured.
But at a Thai court in Koh Samui, three judges found the two bar workers guilty of murder and ordered that they face the death penalty.
Miss Witheridge and Mr Miller were found bludgeoned to death, and a post-mortem examination showed Miss Witheridge had been raped.
Prosecutors claimed DNA evidence collected from cigarette butts, a condom and the bodies of the victims, linked Lin and Phyo to the deaths.
But lawyers defending the accused argued that DNA from a garden hoe - allegedly used as the murder weapon - did not match samples taken from the men.
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