Aug 13 2009
By Michael Wood
The Journal (UK)

THE man being tried for the murder of a North East teacher in Cambodia yesterday asked to be given "the harshest punishment".

The chief of the Khmer Rouge’s main torture centre, is being tried by a UN-backed tribunal on genocide charges.

Kaing Guek Eav, known as Comrade Duch, has already confessed to murdering John Dewhirst (pictured) in 1978 while the Newcastle teacher was backpacking.

Mr Dewhirst, 26, was captured, tortured and killed at the now infamous prison Tuol Sleng, known as S21. He was the only Briton among 17,000 people to die at the jail.