English Farmer Battered To Death Then Barbecued

[Rinrada]

Only been away for a couple of days in the country but wots all this about.....

British farmer's body scattered over Thai park

By Andrew Drummond in Petchaburi, Thailand and Adam Fresco

An English country farmer was battered to death then barbecued on charcoal in a Thai national park after divorcing his Thai wife because of her gambling debts.

The body parts of Marlborough College-educated Toby Charnaud, 41, were then scattered in the park, one of the last refuges of Thailand’s remaining tigers, a court in Petchaburi, 100 miles west of Bangkok, was told today.

Mr Charnaud, a globetrotter, had travelled across the US, Australia, Africa and South East Asia before meeting Pananda, 35, a bar girl, while in Bangkok.

They married in Thailand in 1997 and moved back to England to live in West Kington, Wiltshire, for two years, where they were partners in the family farm.

In 1999 they decided to move to the Thai golf resort of Hua Hin, 200km south of Bangkok, to run the Western-style Rainbow Beach Bar but the marriage was to fall apart.

Mr Charnaud, a keen golfer who was a member of the handicap committee at the Hua Hin Golfing Society, divorced her because of her gambling debts and gave her a £11,000 settlement.

Mr Charnaud had custody of their son Daniel who is now being looked after by Mr Charbaud's sister and her husband in England.

He continued to live in Thailand but in April last year his ex-wife reported him missing to police.

Several days before, on March 27, she helped five relatives and friends from her province of Yasothon in north east Thailand dispose of his body, although she denies premeditated murder.

The body of Mr Charnaud was discovered in May last year and detectives said that they found a knife with his blood and hair on it.

Three others admitted murder with provocation, saying Mr Charnaud had interrupted them when they were drinking whisky. All were also charged with possessing a gun in a public place, deceiving police and concealing the body.

Back in Britain Mr Charnaud’s sister, Hannah Allen, and his parents, Jeremy, 69, and Sarah, 70, became suspicious about the cause of his death and hired a Scottish private eye based in Bangkok.

He checked mobile phone records and discovered that Mr Charnaud, who attended the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester and qualified as a land agent in 1985, had been at his ex-wife’s house on the day he disappeared.

When police raided the house two of the defendants, they confessed and led police to where they had found the body parts....more...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2294115,00.html

[JimsKnight]

Only been away for a couple of days in the country but wots all this about.....

British farmer's body scattered over Thai park

By Andrew Drummond in Petchaburi, Thailand and Adam Fresco

An English country farmer was battered to death then barbecued on charcoal in a Thai national park after divorcing his Thai wife because of her gambling debts.

The body parts of Marlborough College-educated Toby Charnaud, 41, were then scattered in the park, one of the last refuges of Thailand’s remaining tigers, a court in Petchaburi, 100 miles west of Bangkok, was told today.

Mr Charnaud, a globetrotter, had travelled across the US, Australia, Africa and South East Asia before meeting Pananda, 35, a bar girl, while in Bangkok.

They married in Thailand in 1997 and moved back to England to live in West Kington, Wiltshire, for two years, where they were partners in the family farm.

In 1999 they decided to move to the Thai golf resort of Hua Hin, 200km south of Bangkok, to run the Western-style Rainbow Beach Bar but the marriage was to fall apart.

Mr Charnaud, a keen golfer who was a member of the handicap committee at the Hua Hin Golfing Society, divorced her because of her gambling debts and gave her a £11,000 settlement.

Mr Charnaud had custody of their son Daniel who is now being looked after by Mr Charbaud's sister and her husband in England.

He continued to live in Thailand but in April last year his ex-wife reported him missing to police.

Several days before, on March 27, she helped five relatives and friends from her province of Yasothon in north east Thailand dispose of his body, although she denies premeditated murder.

The body of Mr Charnaud was discovered in May last year and detectives said that they found a knife with his blood and hair on it.

Three others admitted murder with provocation, saying Mr Charnaud had interrupted them when they were drinking whisky. All were also charged with possessing a gun in a public place, deceiving police and concealing the body.

Back in Britain Mr Charnaud’s sister, Hannah Allen, and his parents, Jeremy, 69, and Sarah, 70, became suspicious about the cause of his death and hired a Scottish private eye based in Bangkok.

He checked mobile phone records and discovered that Mr Charnaud, who attended the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester and qualified as a land agent in 1985, had been at his ex-wife’s house on the day he disappeared.

When police raided the house two of the defendants, they confessed and led police to where they had found the body parts....more...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2294115,00.html

This is pretty old news, a private investigator had to get the ball rolling as the ever enthusiastic BIB just dragged their heels on it. She should get at least 20 years for her crimes!

[sriracha john]

Three others admitted murder with provocation, saying Mr Charnaud had interrupted them when they were drinking whisky.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ say wha????

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Thanks for the update, Rinrada.

Here are the previous threads on thaivisa concerning this remarkably unsettling case:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?sh...c=33458&hl=

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?sh...c=33478&hl=

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?sh...c=44182&hl=

It's good to hear that the case has gone to court now.

Edited August 1, 2006 by sriracha john

[unforgiven]

Three others admitted murder with provocation, saying Mr Charnaud had interrupted them when they were drinking whisky.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ say wha????

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Thanks for the update, Rinrada.

Here are the previous threads on thaivisa concerning this remarkably unsettling case:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?sh...c=33458&hl=

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?sh...c=33478&hl=

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?sh...c=44182&hl=

It's good to hear that the case has gone to court now.

I hope they fry the wife

[kiakaha]

and hired a Scottish private eye based in Bangkok.

I love these "private eyes"....some guys just watched too much Magnum PI and Remington Steel in the 80's

[Scott]

I guess it's a problem to interrupt people who are drinking whiskey? I'll certainly be more careful in the future!

[Arsenal]

and hired a Scottish private eye based in Bangkok.

I love these "private eyes"....some guys just watched too much Magnum PI and Remington Steel in the 80's

Your jest is misplaced in this case.As I understand it this locally based Scottish private eye, hired by the English family, broke the case open.I think he should be congratulated.

[Me&MrsJones]

DAILY MIRROR (U.K NEWSPAPER, ONLINE EDITION)

2 August 2006

BARBECUED BY HIS THAI BRIDE

Bar girl's plot to get Brit ex hubby's cash

A THAI bride killed her British husband then barbecued his body after he divorced her over her gambling debts, a court heard yesterday.

Wealthy Toby Charnaud, 41, vanished after arranging to pick up their son from ex-wife Pannada Laoruang.

She called and asked him to collect Daniel, five, from her home. He found the former bar girl lying in wait with relatives.

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They tried to shoot him with an old hunting musket which backfired, the court was told.

Public school educated Toby was then battered to death with an iron bar and wooden clubs.

His body was put on a huge funeral pyre made from 44lbs of charcoal they had bought earlier in the day.

It was then cut up and spread around Kaeng Krajan National Park, a tiger reserve on the Thai-Burma border.

Back in Wiltshire, his family became suspicious and hired a Bangkok-based private detective to trace his mobile calls.

They revealed he had been at his ex-wife's in Thai resort the house and two family members led them to his remains.

A knife was also discovered with his blood and hair on it.

Laoruang confessed that she had helped dispose of her ex's body but denies premeditated murder. Relatives Boontin Puipong, 31, Sattri Sri-patum, 28, and Nipit Satabut have admitted murder with provocation.

They claimed they went for Toby after he disturbed them while they were drinking whisky. Laoruang told the court in Petchaburi, 100 miles from Bangkok: "I was at the market and returned home to find my ex-husband's body."

The Charnaud family's lawyer said: "The only motive can be that Pannada expected to inherit everything through their son."

Toby had travelled the world and met Laoruang when she was working in Bangkok bar.

They married in Thailand in 1997 and returned to England where they worked on the family farm in West Kington, for two years.

In 1999 they moved to Thai golf resort Hua Hin where the couple ran two beach bars and a restaurant.

But they split up after Laoruang got hooked on gambling.

Toby gave her a £11,000 divorce settlement and he got full custody of Daniel. He stayed in Thailand and Laoruang reported him missing two days after his death.

Daniel is now being looked after by Toby's sister Hannah Allen in England. Toby's mum Sarah, 70, wrote to the judge explaining that she could not face court to hear the horror of her son's death.

She said: "For me, his mother, one of the worst horrors of his death is the fact that the first attempt to kill him failed and he would have been aware of his murderers making their fatal attack. His fear and concern for his son would have been overwhelming." She added: "We welcomed his ex-wife into our home and family and to repay us by murdering my son is beyond my comprehension."

His dad Jeremy, 69, said: "We want to see justice done so we can get on with our lives."

Laoruang faces death if convicted of murder. The case was adjourned until September.

======the moral of this story is????=============you don't need telling, do you?======

[Jai Dee]

Thai bride 'had her former husband killed'

A former public schoolboy was clubbed to death by his divorced Thai wife and her relatives and his body burned on a charcoal fire after an attempt to shoot him failed, a court in Thailand was told.

Toby Charnaud, 41, a former Marlborough pupil, gave up farming in Wiltshire after marrying a Bangkok bar girl. But he was murdered for his assets after divorcing her and gaining custody of their son, Petchaburi Provinicial Court heard.

As his former wife, Pannada Laoruang, 38, and five of her male relatives and friends stood trial for murder, Mr Charnaud's family, in a letter to the court, described their horror at the details of his last moments.

It is alleged that Mr Charnaud, who owned two bars in the resort of Hua Hin, was lured to his former wife's village in the impoverished Yasothon province in north-east Thailand.

She rang him to say their son Daniel, who was visiting her, wanted to be collected. When he got there, the court has heard, relatives and friends of Pannada tried to kill him with a muzzle-loading hunting musket.

The weapon jammed, so they, allegedly, clubbed him to death with an iron bar and wooden staves.

Mr Charnaud's body was burned on a charcoal fire, then dismembered and distributed around the Kaeng Krajan National Park on the Thai-Burma border.

In a letter to the court, Sarah Charnaud, 70, wrote: "For me, his mother, one of the worst horrors of his death is the fact that the first attempt to kill him failed and he would have been aware of his murderers making their fatal attack. His fear and concern for his son would have been overwhelming."

Mr Charnaud, a land agent who studied at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, Glos, and was involved in his family's farm in Chippenham, Wilts, before travelling the world, married Laoruang eight years ago.

The couple lived briefly in England, where she was welcomed into the family by his parents, two sisters and his brother. But they moved to Thailand where he bought a bar business and a house in the golf resort of Hua Hin.

He divorced Laoruang two years ago, allegedly because of her gambling debts, and won sole custody of their son, whom he allowed to visit his mother. He remained in Thailand though he removed his ex-wife as a director of his company. The prosecution allege that he was murdered for his assets.

Mr Charnaud's family became alarmed when they could not contact him by e-mail or telephone and hired a local private detective.

Mobile phone records showed that Mr Charnaud was at his former wife's home on the day he was murdered on March 27 last year. His remains were found two months later.

Laoruang, who reported him missing two days after the killing, denies premeditated murder. She has told the court she was at a market and returned to find his body.

Three men, Boontin Puipong, 31, Sattri Sripatum, 28, and Nipit Satabut, have admitted murder with provocation, saying Mr Charnaud had interrupted them while they were drinking whisky.

Somsak Papai, 21, and Wisan Samaksir deny murder, saying their only involvement was driving Mr Charnaud's car after the killing.

The court heard that Laoruang promised three of the men - two nephews and a cousin - £2,700 to kill him.

Last night Mr Charnaud's sister, Hannah Allan, 37, a charity worker who is now caring for five-year-old Daniel, said: "He keeps asking us where Daddy is.

"We know he's too young to fully understand. However, he is aware that something horrible has happened."

Mrs Allan, a mother of two from Chippenham, added: "For all of us the most horrific aspect of all this is that they tried to shoot him once and it didn't work, so he would have known what was going to happen.

"We hope to God it was quick, that he didn't have time to process all those thoughts."

Mr Charnaud's father, Jeremy, 69, said: "Our grandson is a reminder of Toby. He is doing great, really well, but we are keeping a very close eye on him."

The trial was adjourned until Sept 6.

Source: Daily Telegraph - 2 August 2006

[Rinrada]

Getting a lot of UK media coverage...was in the London Standard last night and also again in todays Times...

They also gave information on the 2 bars that he had bought his ex wife in Hua Hin (but will leave out)

also another interesting fact ref to a short story that he (the victim)wrote earlier for a Bangkok Magazine with a bit of a prediction of maybe his own death.....

Def comes under the heading of a HORROR DIVORCE..

from the Times today...

Mr Charnaud’s sister, Hannah Allen, believes that her brother may have predicted his own death in a short story written for a competition run by a Bangkok magazine.

The story, entitled Rainfall, is about a Englishman, Guy, who falls in love with a Thai bar girl called Fon.

At first he refuses to believe that she is sleeping around and gambling away his money.

Even when he catches her in the act he forgives her.

After a series of further betrayals, he realises that his wife has hired one of his best friends to kill him. The story won first prize.

Mrs Allen, who is bringing up Daniel, 6, said: “The story is eerie.

I am sure he had his suspicions.

This was a disgusting, premeditated murder which has ruined our family’s lives.”

[mrbojangles]

Has anybody got a link to this, that is written in Thai. The mrs can't find it in any of her on-line newspapers

[Jai Dee]

Thai bride admits feeding ex-husband to the tigers

SOME think it was premonition that led Toby Charnaud to write a short story about an English expatriate’s death at the hands of his Thai girlfriend. But even if the wealthy Wiltshire farmer had any inkling of his own fate, he could hardly have imagined its true horror.

A court in Thailand was told yesterday how Mr Charnaud, 41, was lured to his death on the pretext of collecting his son from his ex-wife on the Thai-Burma border. When he arrived at her family home neither she nor the boy was there. But others were.

First they tried to shoot him with an ancient flintlock musket. When that misfired they attacked him with clubs and an iron bar. When he was finally dead, Mr Charnaud’s body was dismembered and cooked on a charcoal fire before being scattered across the Kaeng Krajan National Park, one of the last refuges of the Thai tiger.

Although she was not present at the killing, Mr Charnaud’s ex-wife, Pannada, was charged with murder along with three of her relatives.

Having heard the evidence the judge, sitting at Petchaburi provincial court, will announce on September 6 whether he intends to pass the death sentence on Pannada, 35, for premeditated murder.

The court was told that Mr Charnaud had met his wife when she was working as a bar girl in Bangkok and they married in 1997. They then moved to England where they helped to run the family sheep and cereal farm with his father, Jeremy, 69.

In less than two years they had grown disillusioned with life in England and decided to move back to Thailand, where they bought the Rainbow Beach Bar in the golf resort of Hua Hin, south of Bangkok.

But the marriage was short-lived because of Pannada’s gambling habit. The couple divorced in 2003 and Mr Charnaud was granted custody of their son, Daniel, who visited his mother every month or so.

After one visit, in March last year, Pannada reported Mr Charnaud missing. But it was only because of the suspicions of his family in England that foul play was uncovered.

Mr Charnaud’s parents hired the services of a Scottish private investigator, based in Bangkok, who used mobile phone records to establish that Mr Charnaud had been at his ex-wife’s home on the day of his disappearance.

Detectives then found a knife with Mr Charnaud’s blood and hair on it. They were later led to where his body parts had been buried in the national park.

Three of Pannada’s relatives admitted murder “with provocation”. But the Charnaud family’s lawyer, Boonchu Yensabai, who is jointly prosecuting the defendants, told the court: “The only motive can be that Pannada expected to inherit everything through their son.”

In a letter read to the court Mr Charnaud’s mother, Sarah, said: “One of the worst horrors . . . is that the first attempt to kill him failed and he would have been aware of his murderers making their fatal attack.”

Mr Charnaud’s sister, Hannah Allen, believes that her brother may have predicted his own death in a short story written for a competition run by a Bangkok magazine. The story, entitled Rainfall, is about a Englishman, Guy, who falls in love with a Thai bar girl called Fon.

At first he refuses to believe that she is sleeping around and gambling away his money. Even when he catches her in the act he forgives her. After a series of further betrayals, he realises that his wife has hired one of his best friends to kill him. The story won first prize.

Mrs Allen, who is bringing up Daniel, 6, said: “The story is eerie. I am sure he had his suspicions. This was a disgusting, premeditated murder which has ruined our family’s lives.”

Source: TimesOnline - 2 August 2006

[mrbojangles]

My sympathies go out to him and his family.

But does anybody on here not find it insulting, to use the words "Thai Bride"? After all they had been married 9 years. Would they still call 2 english people married for that long a "Bride". NO, it seems like they want to label anybody with a Thai Wife, with the stigma that they got them off the internet. To me, it is just as "Racist" as calling someone a "Paki" etc. and yet you could be taken to court (in the UK) for saying such a thing. Makes my blood boil

[Head Snake]

That is a brutal story.

So many morals to the story here.

Is having too much money a dangerous thing? Some crazed western women have done the same for money.

SHould the meeting have been arranged in a public place? Why go back to her families house in the village?

Really, the kicker about their alibi - "He bothered us during our whiskey drinking and musket loading". Does this actually work as a good excuse??

THis story has much to talk about.

[Lacoste]

My sympathies go out to him and his family.

But does anybody on here not find it insulting, to use the words "Thai Bride"? After all they had been married 9 years. Would they still call 2 english people married for that long a "Bride". NO, it seems like they want to label anybody with a Thai Wife, with the stigma that they got them off the internet. To me, it is just as "Racist" as calling someone a "Paki" etc. and yet you could be taken to court (in the UK) for saying such a thing. Makes my blood boil

You can't have your cake and eat it. This is exactly the type of thing i was talking about in a previous thread, The bargirls and Farang that play with them giving all a bad name.

[sbk]

That is a brutal story.

So many morals to the story here.

Is having too much money a dangerous thing? Some crazed western women have done the same for money.

SHould the meeting have been arranged in a public place? Why go back to her families house in the village?

Really, the kicker about their alibi - "He bothered us during our whiskey drinking and musket loading". Does this actually work as a good excuse??

THis story has much to talk about.

So have crazed western men

This isn't a male-female issue but a greedy family out to get as much as they can.

[Arsenal]

My sympathies go out to him and his family.

But does anybody on here not find it insulting, to use the words "Thai Bride"? After all they had been married 9 years. Would they still call 2 english people married for that long a "Bride". NO, it seems like they want to label anybody with a Thai Wife, with the stigma that they got them off the internet. To me, it is just as "Racist" as calling someone a "Paki" etc. and yet you could be taken to court (in the UK) for saying such a thing. Makes my blood boil

You are completely overreacting."Thai bride" is used as a term in the West because so many farang-thai marriages are correctly perceived as strangely mismatched whether as to age education,wealth or social class (often a weird combination of all four categories).

In this sad case the victim was a wealthy ex-public school boy, his wife of the lowest social class.Some of these relationships are contracted, as you suggest, over the internet.Many more are with bargirls or ex-bargirls.It is the extreme oddness of many of these relationships that generates terms like "Thai Brides", and attracts comedy programmes like Little Britain to make fun of them.

I stress that this is just a stereotype, and that there are many farang-Thai marriages which don't fall into this category.

[lannarebirth]

My sympathies go out to him and his family.

But does anybody on here not find it insulting, to use the words "Thai Bride"? After all they had been married 9 years. Would they still call 2 english people married for that long a "Bride". NO, it seems like they want to label anybody with a Thai Wife, with the stigma that they got them off the internet. To me, it is just as "Racist" as calling someone a "Paki" etc. and yet you could be taken to court (in the UK) for saying such a thing. Makes my blood boil

Lots of upsetting things brought up by this incident. Your grievance least among them.

[mrbojangles]

My sympathies go out to him and his family.

But does anybody on here not find it insulting, to use the words "Thai Bride"? After all they had been married 9 years. Would they still call 2 english people married for that long a "Bride". NO, it seems like they want to label anybody with a Thai Wife, with the stigma that they got them off the internet. To me, it is just as "Racist" as calling someone a "Paki" etc. and yet you could be taken to court (in the UK) for saying such a thing. Makes my blood boil

You are completely overreacting."Thai bride" is used as a term in the West because so many farang-thai marriages are correctly perceived as strangely mismatched whether as to age education,wealth or social class (often a weird combination of all four categories).

In this sad case the victim was a wealthy ex-public school boy, his wife of the lowest social class.Some of these relationships are contracted, as you suggest, over the internet.Many more are with bargirls or ex-bargirls.It is the extreme oddness of many of these relationships that generates terms like "Thai Brides", and attracts comedy programmes like Little Britain to make fun of them.

I stress that this is just a stereotype, and that there are many farang-Thai marriages which don't fall into this category.

Sorry Arsenal, but your talking absolute garbage and i don't feel i am over reacting at all.

It is a demeaning term that generalises all Thai women to that of internet brides. In my view the term "Thai Bride" is more racist than calling someone a "Paki". Don't get me wrong, i'm not one of these PC namby pamby types but it is about the way in which it is meant, when it is said, that annoys me.

[Head Snake]

That is a brutal story.

So many morals to the story here.

Is having too much money a dangerous thing? Some crazed western women have done the same for money.

SHould the meeting have been arranged in a public place? Why go back to her families house in the village?

Really, the kicker about their alibi - "He bothered us during our whiskey drinking and musket loading". Does this actually work as a good excuse??

THis story has much to talk about.

So have crazed western men

This isn't a male-female issue but a greedy family out to get as much as they can.

Ok, I forgot to include men. You are right.

Anybody who strives to marry into money may be difficult to get rid of. Desperate people who want to attain/maintain an higher or extravagant lifestyle can be dangerous.

Money can make anybody nuts.

I just want enough to write a bounced check on my death bed.

[baboon]

My sympathies go out to him and his family.

But does anybody on here not find it insulting, to use the words "Thai Bride"? After all they had been married 9 years. Would they still call 2 english people married for that long a "Bride". NO, it seems like they want to label anybody with a Thai Wife, with the stigma that they got them off the internet. To me, it is just as "Racist" as calling someone a "Paki" etc. and yet you could be taken to court (in the UK) for saying such a thing. Makes my blood boil

You dont seem to be recieving much support here, but I agree with you entirely.

A wicked act is a wicked act regardless of class, social status etc..

Edited August 2, 2006 by baboon

[mrbojangles]

My sympathies go out to him and his family.

But does anybody on here not find it insulting, to use the words "Thai Bride"? After all they had been married 9 years. Would they still call 2 english people married for that long a "Bride". NO, it seems like they want to label anybody with a Thai Wife, with the stigma that they got them off the internet. To me, it is just as "Racist" as calling someone a "Paki" etc. and yet you could be taken to court (in the UK) for saying such a thing. Makes my blood boil

You dont seem to be recieving much support here, but I agree with you entirely.

A wicked act is a wicked act regardless of class, social status etc..

Cheers baboon

The point i was trying to make was, that because of the tabloids angle, this poor fellow will be remembered more for having a "Thai Bride" than the horrific murder itself.

[rio666uk]

My sympathies go out to him and his family.

But does anybody on here not find it insulting, to use the words "Thai Bride"? After all they had been married 9 years. Would they still call 2 english people married for that long a "Bride". NO, it seems like they want to label anybody with a Thai Wife, with the stigma that they got them off the internet. To me, it is just as "Racist" as calling someone a "Paki" etc. and yet you could be taken to court (in the UK) for saying such a thing. Makes my blood boil

You are completely overreacting."Thai bride" is used as a term in the West because so many farang-thai marriages are correctly perceived as strangely mismatched whether as to age education,wealth or social class (often a weird combination of all four categories).

In this sad case the victim was a wealthy ex-public school boy, his wife of the lowest social class.Some of these relationships are contracted, as you suggest, over the internet.Many more are with bargirls or ex-bargirls.It is the extreme oddness of many of these relationships that generates terms like "Thai Brides", and attracts comedy programmes like Little Britain to make fun of them.

I stress that this is just a stereotype, and that there are many farang-Thai marriages which don't fall into this category.

Sorry Arsenal, but your talking absolute garbage and i don't feel i am over reacting at all.

It is a demeaning term that generalises all Thai women to that of internet brides. In my view the term "Thai Bride" is more racist than calling someone a "Paki". Don't get me wrong, i'm not one of these PC namby pamby types but it is about the way in which it is meant, when it is said, that annoys me.

I wish to stand up and be counted - I completely agree with you here BoJ - both posts

[richardb]

Thai bride 'had her former husband killed'

Three men, Boontin Puipong, 31, Sattri Sripatum, 28, and Nipit Satabut, have admitted murder with provocation, saying Mr Charnaud had interrupted them while they were drinking whisky.

Source: Daily Telegraph - 2 August 2006

I read the same in the Times.

[baboon]

My sympathies go out to him and his family.

But does anybody on here not find it insulting, to use the words "Thai Bride"? After all they had been married 9 years. Would they still call 2 english people married for that long a "Bride". NO, it seems like they want to label anybody with a Thai Wife, with the stigma that they got them off the internet. To me, it is just as "Racist" as calling someone a "Paki" etc. and yet you could be taken to court (in the UK) for saying such a thing. Makes my blood boil

You dont seem to be recieving much support here, but I agree with you entirely.

A wicked act is a wicked act regardless of class, social status etc..

Cheers baboon

The point i was trying to make was, that because of the tabloids angle, this poor fellow will be remembered more for having a "Thai Bride" than the horrific murder itself.

I understood your point entirely.

The second sentence was directed at those "well they were just innocent, naive farmers being looked down upon by the wicked imperialist foreign exploiters" posters. [Now I am in for some abuse!]

[rio666uk]

#edit

Edited August 2, 2006 by rio666uk

[Gumballl]

I guess it's a problem to interrupt people who are drinking whiskey? I'll certainly be more careful in the future!

It's ok to interrupt someone... just make sure you are doing it to top off their glass with more whiskey.

[Jai Dee]

Duplicate threads merged.

[Plus]

"Thai bride" might be a racist stereotype, but it fits in this case perfectly - a guy picked up a Thai girl from a bar and brought her home. What else should they call her? They probably said "he married a Thai whore" in private but put "bride" in the newsreport.

While people kill for money everywhere, and dismember the bodies, too I haven't heard about frying them first. Did they notice the smell?

[terry57]

Only been away for a couple of days in the country but wots all this about.....

British farmer's body scattered over Thai park

By Andrew Drummond in Petchaburi, Thailand and Adam Fresco

An English country farmer was battered to death then barbecued on charcoal in a Thai national park after divorcing his Thai wife because of her gambling debts.

The body parts of Marlborough College-educated Toby Charnaud, 41, were then scattered in the park, one of the last refuges of Thailand’s remaining tigers, a court in Petchaburi, 100 miles west of Bangkok, was told today.

Mr Charnaud, a globetrotter, had travelled across the US, Australia, Africa and South East Asia before meeting Pananda, 35, a bar girl, while in Bangkok.

They married in Thailand in 1997 and moved back to England to live in West Kington, Wiltshire, for two years, where they were partners in the family farm.

In 1999 they decided to move to the Thai golf resort of Hua Hin, 200km south of Bangkok, to run the Western-style Rainbow Beach Bar but the marriage was to fall apart.

Mr Charnaud, a keen golfer who was a member of the handicap committee at the Hua Hin Golfing Society, divorced her because of her gambling debts and gave her a £11,000 settlement.

Mr Charnaud had custody of their son Daniel who is now being looked after by Mr Charbaud's sister and her husband in England.

He continued to live in Thailand but in April last year his ex-wife reported him missing to police.

Several days before, on March 27, she helped five relatives and friends from her province of Yasothon in north east Thailand dispose of his body, although she denies premeditated murder.

The body of Mr Charnaud was discovered in May last year and detectives said that they found a knife with his blood and hair on it.

Three others admitted murder with provocation, saying Mr Charnaud had interrupted them when they were drinking whisky. All were also charged with possessing a gun in a public place, deceiving police and concealing the body.

Back in Britain Mr Charnaud’s sister, Hannah Allen, and his parents, Jeremy, 69, and Sarah, 70, became suspicious about the cause of his death and hired a Scottish private eye based in Bangkok.

He checked mobile phone records and discovered that Mr Charnaud, who attended the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester and qualified as a land agent in 1985, had been at his ex-wife’s house on the day he disappeared.

When police raided the house two of the defendants, they confessed and led police to where they had found the body parts....more...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2294115,00.html

This is pretty old news, a private investigator had to get the ball rolling as the ever enthusiastic BIB just dragged their heels on it. She should get at least 20 years for her crimes!

only 20 years ?

how about a date with the executioner ?