Witheridge’s family, who did not travel to Thailand for the verdicts, said the previous year had been an “unimaginably impossible time” and they would now be left to “digest the outcome of the trial”.
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“The Thai police force has a long and disturbing track record of using torture and other forms of ill-treatment to extract “confessions”, he added.
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“We strongly disagree with the decision of the court”.
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After Britain’s Foreign Office expressed concern to Thai authorities about the way the investigation was being conducted, British police were allowed to observe the case assembled by their Thai counterparts.
David’s brother Michael, said outside court: “We believe the result today represents justice for David and Hannah”.
Miller’s family arrived early Thursday at the court on Koh Samui a larger island which neighbours Koh Tao.
The family of Mr Miller said after hearing the evidence that the Thai police investigation was “not the so-called shambles it was made out to be”.
Thai prosecutors and police insist their evidence against the men was rock solid, including DNA found on Witheridge’s body.
Relatives of Hannah Witheridge, who was killed alongside David Miller on a beach in Thailand, have arrived in Bangkok to meet police as DNA tests ruled out all their suspects. Police said the lady was raped and bludgeoned to death where as the man suffered blows to his head.
Meanwhile, Amnesty is deeply concerned by the court’s sentencing of the two defendants to death.
Initially officers appeared to flounder in their quest for the perpetrators but eventually arrested and charged Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Tun, also known as Wai Phyo.
Witheridge’s family, which was not present to hear the verdict, said they “had to endure a lot of painful and confusing information” during the trial.
About 10 people stood outside the embassy in a short-lived protest on Thursday, holding placards demanding the release of the two men. “It was easy to conclude they might be convenient scapegoats”.
“They are sure that on appeal, they will be freed and truth will be revealed”, he tweeted shortly after the verdict.
The defence says that the DNA found on a garden hoe police say was the murder weapon does not belong to the defendants.
The verdict follows an investigation and trial that was mired in controversy, including allegations of police incompetence, mishandling of evidence and torture of the suspects.
Miss Witheridge was described as “a attractive, intelligent, loving young woman who poured joy into the lives of all who knew her”, while Mr Miller was a “hard-working, bright and conscientious” young man who would be “sorely, sorely missed”.
His family has suggested he may have been targeted after intervening when he witnessed Miss Witheridge being attacked.
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Thailand has not carried out any executions since 2009, when two executions took place, according to a death penalty database collated by Cornell Law School in the US.
