Austrian murdered

PHITSANULOK: --An Austrian man was killed on Saturday night in Bang Rakam district.

Anders Lastner, 40, was stabbed many times in the head, neck, face and body with a broken bottle.

Police said Lastner accompanied his Thai wife Tawanron Huayhongthong, 44, to her relatives' Songkran party.

He rode on a motorcycle to buy beer at a shop in the village and became involved in a quarrel with a group of men drinking nearby. Witnesses said as he was about to leave on his motorcycle, a teenager hit him on the head with a bottle, then stabbed him repeatedly with the broken end.

--Bangkok Post 2005-04-18

Austrian murdered

PHITSANULOK: --An Austrian man was killed on Saturday night in Bang Rakam district.

Anders Lastner, 40, was stabbed many times in the head, neck, face and body with a broken bottle.

Police said Lastner accompanied his Thai wife Tawanron Huayhongthong, 44, to her relatives' Songkran party.

He rode on a motorcycle to buy beer at a shop in the village and became involved in a quarrel with a group of men drinking nearby. Witnesses said as he was about to leave on his motorcycle, a teenager hit him on the head with a bottle, then stabbed him repeatedly with the broken end.

--Bangkok Post 2005-04-18

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According to the Thai man,35, not a teenager, who surrendered to the police regarding the murder; the Austrian joined his group and after drinking, became aggressive and bad mannered. When warned by the accused to cut it out, the Austrian slapped him about the head, enraging the Thai who said he then hit him with the bottle, thinking it was only a minor injury he had inflicted.

From the Daily News.

According to the Thai man,35, not a teenager, who surrendered to the police regarding the murder; the Austrian joined his group and after drinking, became aggressive and bad mannered. When warned by the accused to cut it out, the Austrian slapped him about the head, enraging the Thai who said he then hit him with the bottle, thinking it was only a minor injury he had inflicted.

From the Daily News.

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That sounds a bit more like it.

It does seem the more belivable account. Perhaps we just hope it was the second account, as random violence without warning is the most frightening.

*Yeah, if some Thai looked at me the wrong way, I'd just slap his/her head. What are they going to do? Stab to death with a broken bottle?*

Hopefully the victim wasn't someone who bought into the above type of post that you see once in awhile around these parts.

This isn't adding up quite right. According to The Nation, he was found dead on the side of the road on what sounded like a desolate stretch. The accounts above make it sound like he was in front of a store. I wonder where the truth of the matter lies?

The Nation version:

Drunken brawl likely led to Austrian’s murder

PHITSANULOK: -- An Austrian man was stabbed to death Saturday night in Bang Rakam district, possibly by his Thai drinking pals, police said.

At 8.30pm at the entrance to Ban Raingkadok village police found the body of a white foreigner with stab wounds to his neck and face. The dead man was lying next to a motorbike, said Lt-Colonel Jaran Boonmee of the Bang Rakam police station. Pieces of a broken beer bottle lay scattered around the scene, he added.

A local woman, Tawanron Huayhongthong, 44, later identified the dead man as her Austrian husband, 40-year-old Andreas Latner. She told police that she, Latner and her daughter were on a visit to a relative in Ban Raingkadok for Songkran when Latner left the house.

Later he was found dead. Tawanron said she had no idea why anyone would want to kill her husband.

Witnesses said Latner stopped by for a drink with a group of villagers at a house some 50 metres from where his body was later found, deputy inspector Lt-Col Daenchai Ngamsong said.

Police suspect that the Austrian man might have become embroiled in an argument with some of the drunken locals who chased and stabbed him to death with a broken beer bottle.

--The Nation 2005-04-18

Thats why i dont learn Thai, can never get in an argument

i thought that we had gone a long time without a farang being murdered . usually runs out at one a month does it not..