3 hours ago, NicholasTH said:

3 hours ago, rbkk said:

I'd bet my bottom dollar the immigration status of the Brits has been checked (black clad assasination squad looks familiar from other immigration raid press conferences.) If any discrepencies, you can safely say that the outcome will be......"If they hadn't had come to Thailand this wouldn't have happened."

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and people wonder why visas are getting hard to get

What?

2 hours ago, Chris.B said:

How can a sickle be described as a knife?

 

Google Translate, that's how.

3 hours ago, NicholasTH said:

and people wonder why visas are getting hard to get

VISA extensions have never been easier.

46 minutes ago, herfiehandbag said:

I couldn't but wonder why they needed half a dozen blokes with tin hats, balaclavas, flak jackets and toting mechanical muskets lined up in the background to announce that they had arrested and disarmed the alleged assailant!

police, firing squad and brown envelopes all lumped together.................hmmmmm.

2 hours ago, Denim said:

It only makes sense if the music was coming from a back bedroom and it was cranked loud to reach the front. The offended Thai might have had his bedroom backed onto the bedroom where the music was coming from. So loud for him but not so loud out front ?

 

Just speculating as to this apparent unclear point.

Odd how you think that your wild speculation "only makes sense", whereas you think the actual report doesn't!

4 hours ago, law ling said:

Except perhaps in extreme cases, the concept of "mental health" is somewhat nebulous and subjective.

 

Hope the mental health issue doesn't allow this 22 year-old to walk (and re-offend) after a token stint in jail.

There is nothing 'nebulous and subjective' about whether someone is suffering from mental health problems. Professional psychiatrists are trained to spot the fakers and the 'faker' would have to be a next level genuis (which I'm guessing is not the case here) to get away with claiming mental health problems when there isn't any.

Like ALL civilised countries, committing crimes whilst not in control of your faculties is viewed very differently from someone who is completely sane and in full knowledge of what they are doing. If someone is suffering genuine mental health problems then they should get the help they need, or if that doesn't work, be locked up in a mental institution for the rest of their lives. Any desire for vengance or retribution should take a back seat to what is the right thing to do in a civilised society.  

  

Anyone remember the policeman, Wisetsingh in Kanchanaburi that killed the tourists in 2004?

 

2 hours ago, NicholasTH said:

Ms Muanchit told the Sun: 'I looked in his eyes. I was still so angry at him. I asked him ''why did you kill my husband?''

'I said I was very angry at him. I said ''why couldn't you talk or ask nicely? You could have told me or told the police, but you shouldn't have killed him''

 

due to his disabilities he doesn't know right from wrong and people playing music after 3am should know better .. its a sad story  for everyone

You are cherry picking your details to make out that the British guys had it coming... 

 

[“When I went outside late at night, it was like normal. Nothing was loud, it was quiet and there was no sound. ] - (from the Paper you quoted)

 

 

3 hours ago, NicholasTH said:

and people wonder why visas are getting hard to get

There are some very strange ideas and thoughts running though your mind.... 

 

 

20 minutes ago, NicholasTH said:

This could have all been avoidable if people wasn't drinking until ******* three o'clock in the morning

This is as daft as suggesting ‘if they weren’t in Thailand it wouldn’t have happened’ !!!...... 

 

There’s nothing wrong with being awake at 3am...  Is it his association with drink that makes you victim blame ?

 

[“After drinking for a bit he came back to my room to get a beer. He did not look drunk, he looked normal, and he carried that one bottle of beer out.] - (from the Paper you quoted)

23 minutes ago, NicholasTH said:

This could have all been avoidable if people wasn't drinking until ******* three o'clock in the morning

The drinking wasn't the ******* problem, it was the ******* racket they were creating that was the problem.

24 minutes ago, NicholasTH said:

30 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

There's no indication in the report that even one of those pictured was "claiming credit for the arrest".

This could have all been avoidable if people wasn't drinking until ******* three o'clock in the morning

Why did you quote my post with your ******* comment ?

Go and read what Marcus wife said about the evening in the sun newspaper ..

 

I think Marcus has got mixed up with an alcoholic also why only bring out one beer if you are drinking with so called friends..

20 minutes ago, NicholasTH said:

This could have all been avoidable if people wasn't drinking until ******* three o'clock in the morning

Nice one blame the victim.

 

Drinking until 3am is not against the law if done in your own residence, irresepctive of you own personal view. . Trying to decapitate a person with a scythe i think is against the law. If I am wrong please let me know.

 

The blame for this lies squarely with the person with the scythe.  End of story. 

4 minutes ago, NicholasTH said:

Go and read what Marcus wife said about the evening in the sun newspaper ..

 

I think Marcus has got mixed up with an alcoholic also why only bring out one beer if you are drinking with so called friends..

Why would anyone read, never mind give credibility to, anything that the rag-of-all-rags, The Sun, prints, particularly a story that the paper pays for?

Tourism officials have visited the injured man in hospital. 

 

They wanted to know if he would reccomend Thailand as a tourist friendly destination ????

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Yes I know they weren't tourists.

 

4 hours ago, JoePai said:

Who mentioned the Thai Police are overstaffed ?

And why do you need police officers all balaclavered up and with machine guns at a journalist photo op? And for an offense where the suspect was armed with a sickle?

 

over kill?

Wassana said Marcus came back into their house to get another beer as him and his friend listened to music.

“That was the last time I saw him alive,” she said.

“After drinking for a bit he came back to my room to get a beer. He did not look drunk, he looked normal, and he carried that one bottle of beer out.

“When I went outside late at night, it was like normal. Nothing was loud, it was quiet and there was no sound. 

4 hours ago, NicholasTH said:

Not really tourist then ????‍♂️

Try convincing TAT of that. 

"he is under stress" (the murderer)

"justice for BOTH sides"

I think we can all see where this is going.  NOWHERE.  What a farce.

4 hours ago, NicholasTH said:

Last night on Thai news the neighbors said they were playing music but it was not that loud.

“He goes to Thailand for months at a time to see his girlfriend. He goes there whenever he can and always seems to have a good time.

“He’s a nice fella but he’s private and keeps himself to himself. I’ve lived two doors away from him for five years but I don’t know him, only to say hello to, because he’s often away.”

9 minutes ago, NicholasTH said:

I think Marcus has got mixed up with an alcoholic also why only bring out one beer if you are drinking with so called friends..

Focus on the insignificant ? - Perhaps he only wanted one more beer, perhaps his friend already had a beer. 

However, focusing on a beer is irrelevant, people are perfectly capable of having a beer without being hooligans.

 

15 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

The drinking wasn't the ******* problem, it was the ******* racket they were creating that was the problem.

Agreed about the drinking...  the ‘racket’ part may be an exaggeration....   The media has reported ‘loud music at 3am’... that just makes the story juicer....  

 

Who has actually claimed the music was loud ?? - the murderer ?

Any neighbours also claiming the music was loud ?

 

The Wife claims there was no loud music.

 

 

1 minute ago, richard_smith237 said:

However, focusing on a beer is irrelevant, people are perfectly capable of having a beer without being hooligans.

Not at 3.20 in the morning.

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Thanayut promised justice for both sides.

Errr its murder, how about justice for the victim as a priority?

24 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

Anyone remember the policeman, Wisetsingh in Kanchanaburi that killed the tourists in 2004?

 

Remember it well. Killed an English couple then his cop mates helped him flee over the border into Burma. 

 

Came back and turned himself in a bit later iirc.

7 minutes ago, rwill said:

Last night on Thai news the neighbors said they were playing music but it was not that loud.

There goes that line of defence then. ????

1 minute ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Remember it well. Killed an English couple then his cop mates helped him flee over the border into Burma. 

 

Came back and turned himself in a bit later iirc.

The word on the streets is that he was freed years ago. 

Just now, Neeranam said:

The word on the streets is that he was freed years ago. 

That would not surprise me in the slightest.

 

I also remember the off duty cop that shot and killed a Canadian guy up in Pai, never was prosecuted properly for the murder of a foreigner but a few years later clubbed his pregnant Thai wife to death with a lump of wood. 

Promises only bind those who believe them...

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Tourism officials have visited the injured man in hospital. 

Oh God, not again this theatre...
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Please come back again.
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This is not the first time that mental illness has been invoked to conceal the local xenophobia maintained even by ministers.