Brittish Guy Kills Thai Step-son

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If the story is all true then I think he should get 20 years in Bang Kwan prison and then he should be executed. Bloody scum ferrang giving all us good ones a bad name again , why dont they get the f#ck out.

Briton 'Beat Step-Son To Death'

Updated: 16:02, Thursday July 19, 2007

<H2>Police in Thailand have charged a British man with beating his eight-year-old step-son to death.

The boy's mother has accused David Murray, 37, of harming the child over poor school results.

</H2> The island of Phuket where Murray was living with partner and step-kidsMurray is being held on the holiday island of Phuket - where he has been living with the Thai national and her two sons for the past two years.

A local policeman said the body of Narid Curry Budtharai was covered in cuts and bruises.

His mother accused Murray of beating her son with a plastic pipe because the child had performed poorly in exams.

Murray is said to have fled the family home before returning two days later and handing himself into police.

The Foreign Office has told Sky News it is aware of the arrest of a British national in Thailand.

It is understood he has been visited by British consular officials and offered consular assistance.

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Covered in the Phuket forum here