German expat gets eight years jail for slaying Phuket girlfriend

[DashRye]

https://konniemoments.com/2017/07/10/german-tourist-slashes-his-own-throat-as-police-try-to-arrest-him-for-murdering-his-thai-beautician-girlfriend-over-sexual-jealousy/amp/


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[kiwikeith]

On ‎9‎/‎16‎/‎2018 at 1:58 AM, cyril sneer said:

pretty low stealing her ATM card, anyone know what the drugs charges were?

 

8 years doesn't seem a lot, people get more for carrying a gram of hash..

Very stupid small minded man, he should of moved on rather than be in an obsessive relationship.

Sentence halved from 16 years, could be because of some influence or information leading to influence.

Either way a stupid way to learn Thai in the BK Hilton.

[rodney earl]

As far as I am concerned he killed another human being and should have got the death penalty. If he serves his full term he will be out of jail when he is 44 and his victim is no longer alive. It is not fair. The law has not just got to be done, it has got to be seen to be done and it does not in this case.!!!

[Daveyh]

Only eight years for killing another human? This sentence most certainly does not fit the crime. However, it does indicate that murder is not a capital crime here ........ evidently loss of life due to a premeditated vicious act does not warrant a life sentence. Thailand certainly has a lot to gain by making crimes of this nature a capital crime which deserves a life sentence ........ they would be viewed by the rest of the world as a country with zero tolerance for murder. Perhaps it would also go some way to "reign in" all the "hotheads" that reside here too & make them think twice. 

[manarak]

On 9/16/2018 at 6:11 AM, scorecard said:

Plenty of cases, regularly reported here on TV of Thai people and others getting very long sentences for conning /cheating others etc., that's enough evidence.

nope... for carrying 1 gram of hash, first offense... waiting on your "evidence".

[BobBKK]

Why only 8 years?  why no death penalty?

[jgarbo]

On 9/15/2018 at 9:31 PM, Catkiwi said:

What a miserable son of a female dog! Eight years??? Un-believable! 

Why put it a on a dog?

[jgarbo]

2 hours ago, Daveyh said:

Only eight years for killing another human? This sentence most certainly does not fit the crime. However, it does indicate that murder is not a capital crime here ........ evidently loss of life due to a premeditated vicious act does not warrant a life sentence. Thailand certainly has a lot to gain by making crimes of this nature a capital crime which deserves a life sentence ........ they would be viewed by the rest of the world as a country with zero tolerance for murder. Perhaps it would also go some way to "reign in" all the "hotheads" that reside here too & make them think twice. 

Murder here is a capital crime, ie punishable by death. Not that it brings back the deceased. We just get two corpses.

[Jimdandy]

Hope he gets what he has coming to him in jail. Like murdered...

[BritManToo]

On 9/16/2018 at 9:06 AM, Roda07 said:

8 years?  For killing his girlfriend. My friend and her Thai partner got sentence for 20 years for stealing 100k+ baht ?.

His girlfriend was only valued at 25kbht.

[ttrd]

On ‎9‎/‎16‎/‎2018 at 4:21 AM, Kieran00001 said:

It is not automatic, it is up to the court to set the sentencing and they are allowed to reduce sentences by up to 50% if they plead guilty, again it is their decision, not the prosecutor.  And there is no way of determining if the evidence was incontrovertible in the eyes of the court as when a guilty plea is entered no evidence will be submitted by the prosecution.

It's irellevant - the thai system is not understandable and just doesnt make sence when scamming seems to be worse than killing, when driving without a helmet are threated equal as attacking others in public with a sword (500thb), when the reaction over a teacher's twitter message are seen as worse than when a teacher's are getting caught red handed for abusing children - and the list goes on....

 

Who can have faith in a system like this….

[Naam]

34 minutes ago, ttrd said:

Who can have faith in a system like this…

if you live in Thailand you are in the system. having faith in it or not is irrelevant.

[Naam]

5 hours ago, BobBKK said:

Why only 8 years?  why no death penalty?

yeah why? either we get answers or else!

[ttrd]

11 minutes ago, Naam said:

if you live in Thailand you are in the system. having faith in it or not is irrelevant.

What really make something irrelevant is to take something out of context so it loses its original value….

Edited September 17, 2018 by ttrd

[Naam]

4 minutes ago, ttrd said:

What is irrelevant is to take something out of context so it loses its original value….

what value?

[ttrd]

1 minute ago, Naam said:

what value?

If you have not catched it by now, you never will….

[Kieran00001]

7 hours ago, Daveyh said:

Only eight years for killing another human? This sentence most certainly does not fit the crime. However, it does indicate that murder is not a capital crime here ........ evidently loss of life due to a premeditated vicious act does not warrant a life sentence. Thailand certainly has a lot to gain by making crimes of this nature a capital crime which deserves a life sentence ........ they would be viewed by the rest of the world as a country with zero tolerance for murder. Perhaps it would also go some way to "reign in" all the "hotheads" that reside here too & make them think twice. 

 

Perhaps, but seeing as there is zero evidence that harsher sentences do anything to deter crime we can assume it wouldn't.

[0815]

On 9/15/2018 at 8:49 PM, worgeordie said:

8 years not enough ,for the brutal slaying,

just the other day a Thai Lady got 4000 years

for conning some people

regards worgeordie

Give him 18 !