Former British Hua Hin Resident Sentenced For Murder

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By Editor

 

Yesterday (31st May) the Kanchanaburi Provincial Court sentenced former Hua Hin resident Shane Kenneth Looker to 8 years imprisonment for murdering a 31 year old Thai woman, Laxami “Look” Manochat, in 2014.  

 

The court ordered Looker to pay a total of 12.5 million baht to Look’s family.

 

The court initially sentenced the 51 year old British man from Stoke-on-Trent to 16 years imprisonment but cut the sentence in half because he confessed to the crime.  Initially he had said he “categorically had absolutely nothing to do with this woman’s murder.”

 

Looker was not present in court but listened to his sentence via video call from Kanchanaburi prison.  Look’s mother and daughter were present at the court to hear the sentence, along with representatives from the British embassy.

 

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The court heard that several witnesses had seen Looker and Look together on the night she was last seen in Bangkok and clear CCTV footage allowed police to quickly identify the murderer.  In addition, DNA traces of were found in samples taken from Look’s fingernails. 

 

The pair were seen walking through a hotel together on Sukhumvit Soi 5 on November 1st 2014, after Looker picked her from a bar in the Nana area of Bangkok.  Look was not seen again after that night.

 

Police later discovered the body cut into pieces, still wearing black stilettos, a black dress and underwear.  It is not clear how Look’s body ended up in Kanchanaburi.

 

Police believe the murder took place on the night of November 1st, before Looker left Bangkok for Hua Hin where he owned a property.  It is believed he spent weeks lying low in Hua Hin before crossing over into Malaysia by train.  He then flew to Ibiza in Spain where he owned another holiday home.

 

Kanchanaburi Provincial Court approved an arrest warrant on January 28th 2015, on charges of “murdering and hiding, moving or destroying a body in order to conceal the death or cause of death.”

 

Looker was arrested in Spain in June 2017 and remanded in custody.   After years of appeals, he was extradited from Spain and sent back to Thailand in July last year.  Police met him at Suvarnabhumi Airport, handcuffed him and detained him.

 

Thai authorities had reportedly offered assurances under EU law that he wouldn’t face the death penalty if found guilty.

 

Source: https://royalcoastreview.com/2022/05/former-british-hua-hin-resident-sentenced-for-murder/

 

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British murderer sentenced to eight-years imprisonment for killing and disposing of Thai bar girl in Kanchanaburi in 2014

By Nop Meechukhun

 

 

Kanchanaburi – British national Shane Kenneth Looker was sentenced to an eight-year imprisonment by the Kanchanaburi Court today, May 31st, for killing 27-year-old Thai woman Laxami Manochat in a hotel room and disposing of her body in the Mae Klong River, Kanchanaburi in 2014.

 

Prior to the murder, Laxami and Looker were captured on CCTV leaving Nana Plaza in Bangkok on November 1st, 2014, before reportedly entering a hotel together.

 

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Only Looker was reportedly seen leaving the hotel afterward with a large suitcase. The suitcase containing her body was found in the Mae Klong River on November 9th.

 

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[fusion58]

58 minutes ago, webfact said:

Thai authorities had reportedly offered assurances under EU law that he wouldn’t face the death penalty if found guilty.

That’s too bad. If anyone deserves the death penalty, then it would be this POS.

[RichardColeman]

 

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The court ordered Looker to pay a total of 12.5 million baht to Look’s family.

Wonder if the scumbags family have started a go fund me page to pay them off ! Shameful Thailand, guy should never walk free, he is a danger to society

[Inala]

Police later discovered the body cut into pieces, still wearing black stilettos, a black dress and underwear. 

Eight years for such an horrific crime is laughable. What a travesty of justice. It should be appealed by the family using the 12.5m baht he's ordered to pay, but I guess that's unlikely for a bunch of reasons.

This crime highlights the risk these girls put themselves at when they are barfined out by strangers. Unfortunately, evil really does exist in this world and that night this girl's luck run out when she met evil personified in this man. 

[Andre0720]

All these possessions, all this money, he could have had a lived a blissful life.

 

But he chose to burden his thoughts with the memory of killing and dismembering a girl who was also seeking her bliss. Then hiding from society and hiding from himself.

Why oh why. Psychopathic personality could not even start to explain that...

[thaibreaker]

8 years for a "man" who chops up a girl into pieces, that is bloody insane. What a shame. This freak should never walk the earth again. 

[vandeventer]

17 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

 

Wonder if the scumbags family have started a go fund me page to pay them off ! Shameful Thailand, guy should never walk free, he is a danger to society

He will be out in 4 years on good behavior, to murder again, as murder doesn't seem like such a high crime here. Why would confessing to a murder when you are caught red handed reduce your sentence by half? Go fund me is not for confessed murders.

[rwill]

Other countries he has been in should be looking at unsolved murders in areas where he stayed.

Kind of reminds me of Joran Van Der Sloot.  Who killed women in several countries, one of which was Thailand(allegedly).

[mvdf]

99 years for a kg of heroin.

True true, quite iffy indeed

Lesson: don't kill, smuggle or talk trash about someone. 

[bbko]

Eight years for killing and dismembering someone??!!  

[jacko45k]

1 hour ago, fusion58 said:

That’s too bad. If anyone deserves the death penalty, then it would be this POS.

At least he gets some punishment, had they been pursuing a death penalty he would not have been extradited. Eight years is rather small for murder, drug sellers get decades!

Over-all I am impressed this has been pursued to some conclusion. 

[scubascuba3]

They don't know how the body got from Bangkok to Kanchanaburi, minor detail I guess and not considered important

[rwill]

1 minute ago, bbko said:

Eight years for killing and dismembering someone??!!  

I think here the financial part of the sentence is seen as more justice than the prison time.  In my observations the families of the victims only care about what they will get from it not what happens to the person afterwards.  

A niece and her daughter of ours died in a car accident.  The only thing her father talked about during the funeral was how much money he thought he was going to get from the insurance company.

[rwill]

2 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

They don't know how the body got from Bangkok to Kanchanaburi, minor detail I guess and not considered important

My guess would be in a red suitcase.

[billsmart]

I don't object to this sentence, but don't understand why another man was sentenced to 46 years for making a car bomb, but did not actually kill anyone yet.

[Kenchamp]

It just shows that the Thai cops can do their job when they put the effort in and i bet he thought he'd got away with it.

[spidermike007]

Is Thailand the only nation that cuts a murder sentence in half, due to a confession of guilt? And what does this say about the culture and the judicial system? He deserved death. 

[futsukayoi]

with the regular amnesties how long will 8 years actually be. 3 years /

2 years /

[CharlieH]

Troll remark and responses removed.

[jmw]

Wow!

I understand they couldn't give him the death penalty, but 8 years????

That's insulting!

[hotchilli]

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

 

Wonder if the scumbags family have started a go fund me page to pay them off ! Shameful Thailand, guy should never walk free, he is a danger to society

I hope the family has disowned him, he can sell his property in Ibiza, he won't be needing that again.

[Moonfire]

Got caught, guess he didn't own any Red Bull stock.

[IAMHERE]

I hope he has to pay that fine before any early release is discussed.

What happened to the property he had in "for Hua Hin where he owned a property." area ?  Hope that went to the ladies kin.

[ScotBkk]

2 hours ago, fusion58 said:

That’s too bad. If anyone deserves the death penalty, then it would be this POS.

Totally agree 

I remember this case and Looks like he's got of very lightly.

 

 

 

 

[volsfan]

He was arrested in 2017, so already locked up for 5 years. Don't think that will count in the 8 year sentence. So total more like 13 years. 

[KCPhuket]

2 hours ago, fusion58 said:

That’s too bad. If anyone deserves the death penalty, then it would be this POS.

And if not death 80 years instead of 8

[ChaiyaTH]

1 hour ago, rwill said:

Other countries he has been in should be looking at unsolved murders in areas where he stayed.

Kind of reminds me of Joran Van Der Sloot.  Who killed women in several countries, one of which was Thailand(allegedly).

Has zero to do with Thailand.

[ChaiyaTH]

Before people talk about the red bull case for the million'st time again, he has multiple passports and was only flagged on his Thai one, which he not uses.

 

Anyway this guy will get 1 year discount on each Ks birthday + half way back to England, so like 2-3 years jail here only and they might even take off the time he served so far already too. 

 

If he carried 2-3 speed pills, he would be in jail longer... Seems murder is almost accepted here.

[worgeordie]

8 years ....a local man ,killed his wife with homemade shotgun,

many mitigating circumstances , his appointed lawyer  it was his

first case ! ,after he shot her,came to his senses and took his wife

straight to hospital, 30 years ,cut in half because pleaded guilty

regards Worgeordie