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Man extradited from Thailand denies Birchwood murder

September 07, 2009

A 61-YEAR-OLD man extradited from Thailand has denied strangling a frail ME sufferer in her Ashtead home.

Paul Cryne, who is also known as Paul Baker, is accused of murdering Sharon Birchwood on December 4, 2007.

The 52-year-old divorcee was allegedly throttled with electrical cord and packing tape at her bungalow in Harriott’s Lane.

Cryne appeared at the Old Bailey via videolink for a short hearing on Monday when he pleaded not guilty to a single count of murder.

Judge Brian Barker QC set a trial date for March 1 next year. The case is expected to last up to five weeks.

Cryne, who is originally from Torquay, Devon, was remanded in custody. He was extradited from Thailand last month.

not surprised he's denying it. After all, it worked out OK for him the last time he was on trial for murder.

I could be wrong but aren't conference facilities rather better in Pattaya than Chiang Mai, or would that be running the gauntlet of PAD running amok down Beach Rd, Chonburi not being a former Thaksin stronghold?

Hitler was democratic elected

this is a commonly believed misconception.

When the German voters had to decide in the 1932 Presidential election who they wanted to be President, they rejected Hitler and chose Hindenberg as Head of State instead by a huge margin. Hitler gained power by means of manipulating a democratic process - but definitely not through his individual democratic election. The Nazi party never received more than 30 odd per cent of the vote in any election.

I heard that it work this way (for the Brits - don't know about others), but I don't actually know if its true. If your friends/relatives deposit the necessary amount of money at the Foreign Office in London, then the Embassy will give you the Baht equivalent here.

they just tell you to send the money Western Union or some other method of sending money overseas. Obviously that's a lot more convenient than going all the way down to the bloody Foreign Office in London if your friends or relatives happen to live in Carlisle.

money that she could have been drinking instead of him.

so she's an alcoholic now as well is she as well as somebody ready to commission acts of violence. That makes it even less likely that she could have afforded to give a farang beggar such a substantial portion of her income.

office girls on 10,000 baht a month just don't frequent the kind of bars where they're likely to be propositioned by farangs for short time unless they're moonlighting as whores.

she had the bouncers beat the shit out of him

so this impecunious office girl can't only afford to give a farang beggar a significant slice of her income, but can also pay Thai bouncers out of her salary to perform acts of violence on her behalf?

Is she moonlighting, does she have a dumb foreign benefactor, or are you just telling porky-pies?

he revealed he just begged to finance his travels around S/E Asia, saying the thai office gurls would often give 100-500 baht to help him out.[/i]

I'd take that with a pinch of salt, frankly. 500 baht is roughly around 4% of an 'office girls' monthly salary. How often do you think a London 'office girl' bungs a beggar fifty pounds or a hundred dollars?

These claims are based on the incorporation of the Sulu Sultanates into Malaysian Borneo. Though these claims are not actively persued, it is my understanding that they have not been formally abandoned either

it's not Malaysia, or Sabah, that claims the Sulu Sultanate, but the Philippines (via the Sulu Sultanate) that used to have a claim on Sabah, now 'dormant'. It's more or less been relinquished now. A referendum was held some time after independence and Sabahans decisively rejected the notion of becoming part of the Philippines.

the English on this site is a bit dodgy, but there's an overall view here:

http://www.epilipinas.com/SabahClaim.htm

Moro National Liberation Front chair Nur Misuari called for a revival of the Sabah claim during a gathering of the MNLF in Davao City as recently as March this year.

more here:

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadl...-being-resolved

apart from the time when Marcos decided to make an issue of it for reasons of his own, the Philippine government's support for the Sabah claim has always been somewhat lukewarm, despite Sabah's valuable natural resources and despite Islam being a minority religion in Sabah. In fact some Sabahan towns feel much more like the Philippines than peninsular Malaysia. In Kennigau, for example, there's hardly any Muslims at all, but a lot of Filipino emigrants who mostly came in the 1970s.

as far as I know Malaysia doesn't claim any Philippines territory, though they do share a dispute over the Spratly islands with them, together with Vietnam, China, and Brunei.

As an aside, technically, Malaysia (through the vehicle of some of the historic Islamic sultanates that were incorporated into Malaysian Borneo) actually has territorial claims to large parts, if not all, of Mindanao

that's the first time I've heard of Malaysia laying any claim to 'large parts' of Mindanao.

The Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo is a former Muslim state that ruled over much of the islands off the Sulu Sea. It includes part of the island of Mindanao in the east, to North Borneo, now known as Sabah, in the west and south and to Palawan in the north.

founded in 1457 it is believed to have existed as a sovereign nation for something like 440 years. The Sultanate of Sulu lays claim to Sabah. It obtained Sabah from Brunei as a gift for helping put down a rebellion on Borneo in the 19th century.

The British leased Sabah and transferred control over the territory to Malaysia after the end of the Second World War. To this day, Kuala Lumpur still pays an annual rent of 5,000 ringgit to the heirs of the Sultan of Sulu.

What if you want to get home, no money, visa run out etc? Will they help you sort out transport if you promise to pay them back?

they won't advance you a penny. All they'll do is advise friends/family back home to send you some money to bail you out.

if a family of 6, even with small children, turned up at the UK mission in Benidorm and said they'd spent all their money and needed 300 Euros to pay for a room until their flight leaves in a few days, they'll be told to sleep on the beach. Embassies and consulates are there to expedite trade and diplomacy between nations, not bail out idiot tourists.

Tourism "boosting Thai property"

Thailand’s biggest international real estate provider, CB Richard Ellis, has reported soaring interest in holiday home investment, which it attributes to booming tourism and an increase in flight links.

In Phuket, the firm reports a 32 per cent increase in transactions from the third to last quarter of 2007, with a 59 per cent increase in their value, based on the latest statistics from the Land Department. While villas prices doubled from 2000 to 2006, CBRE said: “Phuket remains globally competitive. Prices and interest remain solid.”

Market enthusiasm is attributed to growing tourism, with tourist arrivals to Phuket exceeding 5 million last year, complimented by a robust 22.5 per cent increase in visitors to Thailand. These included many from new tourism sources, such as Russia, the UAE, Switzerland and eastern European countries. “As a result, there is a broader global customer base for high-end villas. Previously, most customers were expatriates from Hong Kong and Singapore. Now we are seeing a rise in demand from NRIs, Russians and Eastern Europeans,” said CBRE.

Airlines have responded to demand, most notably with new connections from regional budget carriers. From Singapore, budget airline Tiger Airways is supporting Silk Air connections. Air Asia has introduced new flights from Kuala Lumpur, and introduces daily flights between Macau and Phuket in May 2008.

Dragon Air is meanwhile upgrading its Phuket-Hong Kong route in peak seasons with larger aircraft and 90 international chartered flights in the last high season from October 2007 to March 2008, which represented a 150 per cent increase from last year. With new flight links, investors are also looking for opportunities beyond Phuket to areas such as Phang Nga, Krabi and outlying islands in the Andaman Sea, said the realtor.

http://www.property-report.com/aprarchives...amp;date=260508

expats have only a tiny effect on the economies of both countries. 10,000 extra people pissing off and leaving Thailand and dumping themselves in the Philippines or Vietnam instead isn't going to have any effect.

oh I never bother with it. I'm always making money that day.

I always sit in the front in taxis.

is it illegal on bicycles as well or just motor vehicles?

Gonna have to pass on PB

unless you have views on them as an airline I don't share, the flight will likely be more expensive than Thai. If you've never flown with them before, I'd say go it. Both Sakhon Nakhon and Nakon Phanom are that little bit closer to Mukdahan than Ubon is as well.

just rent - they're usually bent.

don't bother with any sites where you have to pay. This goes for other countries in Asia, not just Thailand. They're always, or nearly always, just a revenue-raiser for farang residents, and there's no guarantee there's going to be less fake profiles than the free ones.

someone's already mentioned the totally free dateinasia.com

that one is even user-friendly to the point where you can search for contacts by city, so if you're planning a trip by bus up to Chiang Mai from say Hat Yai it's possible, and easy, to arrange dates in each city you stop at.

surprised nobody's mentioned Thailandfriends.com - that's also totally free, you can pay for an upgrade if you want, but it's not necessary.

you can also use the yahoo advanced member search to look for contacts in any city you want, again totally for free.

Callippo - is there a good reason why I should take Air Asia instead of Thai?

not if SOC is paying for it, in which case I'd probably take the PB Air flight to Nakhon Phanom. They don't fly every day though. I agree with you about buses in Thailand, though my limit is around five hours. If it were two, I couldn't even get to Kanchanaburi or Pattaya in one go.

most branded spirits are probably a little bit cheaper in Japan than Thailand, most well-known brands come in around the $18-25 mark.

it's cigarettes that are cheap in Japan - they're easily the cheapest in any of the world's first rank of developed countries, though not as cheap as in Thailand.

it makes more sense to go with Air Asia to Ubon and then get a taxi to Mukdahan right from the airport if it's as low as 3/400 baht. You'll have to get some transport to the out-of-town bus station where Mukdahan buses leave from if you wanted to take the bus. I did this trip in the opposite direction two years ago and if I'd have known I could have gotten a taxi for as low as that, I would have done it that way.

going via Khon Kaen or Nakhon Phanom makes no sense, budget airlines don't serve them. Only Thai serves Khon Kaen, and only PB Air Nakhon Phanom.

of course, if you wanted to you could get an eastern line night train to Ubon from Bangkok too.

Do not know about the Government being silly, but when The Thai Government get wind of what the UK Government announced yesterday, it will be the end of the end for all 3G mobiles. The UK Gov, in their wisdom, have announce a new law that all mobiles that take pictures/videos will be banned , as they have been used by thugs to take pics and footage of beatings of both adults and youths.

I don't think so

pay no attention to the man or woman behind the curtain. That post is just complete bullshit.

A similar incident happened when chinese workers were suffocted trying to enter England. However, rather than arrest the perpetrators or the survivors the English sent a police group over to China to investigate and the families of the chinese dead wanted compensation from the English tax-payer.

total rubbish.

the lorry driver got 14 years jail for manslaughter, the Turkish 'brains' got 10 years and various other members of the conspiracy also got fairly lengthy jail terms on related charges.

there was also no chance of the UK government compensating the victims, as the crime was actually conceived and the conspiracy executed in the Netherlands. The act of switching off the air vent and the supply of oxygen to the victims, causing their deaths, took place in Belgium, not the UK. The victims died in international waters.

in the Morecambe cockling incident, when 20 Chinese drowned, the compensation fund set up by the film maker Nick Broomfield and others only received 20,000 UK pounds in donations.

http://linkchinese.net/news/2007/06/21/morecambe-victims/

[could some one fill me in?

they just don't like white people. Philippines is far more foreigner-friendly.

a 15% margin is nothing to gloat about.

I agree, they were never going to get the 68% some of the polls were predicting. But it is - just about - a mandate. I thought it would be about 60, no more than that.

and of course the country is still split, the south Yes vote - 86% - is huge. Take them out and it would look a lot closer.