Phuket Body in Bin killer Stein Dokset sentenced to nine years

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Phuket Body in Bin killer Stein Dokset sentenced to nine years

PHUKET:-- Stein Dokset, a Norwegian national who murdered his former lover and concealed her body in a bin for more than two years has today been sentenced to nine years in prison.

Dokset, who has been in custody in the provincial prison in Phuket since he was arrested in late February 2012, has always denied he murdered 33 year old Rungnapa “June” Ratchasombut.

Ms Ratchasombut, who was found in the man’s dumpster at his villa on Phuket, had been missing since the summer of 2009 and the Norwegian was arrested for having killed her and concealing the body, after concerned members of her family persuaded the police to investigate her disappearance.

According to Stein Dokset, an accident caused her death. In an interrogation he explained the authorities that the two had an argument, during which she fell down some stairs and died. When he discovered that she was dead he panicked and concealed the body.

He had managed to hide the body for over two years until the maid noticed strange smells around the house and the police raided the villa.

Norwegian news site abcnyheter reports that If found guilty, Dokset could face the death penalty.

-- 2015-01-29

[stevenl]

"If found guilty, Dokset could face the death penalty."

Strange remark.

No surprise here, intend could not be proven.

[webfact]

Accused in Phuket 'body in bin' case gets nine years
Nattapat Tuarob


After his arrest, Dokset took part in a reenactment, with a bin similar to the one into which he stuffed the body of his former lover.

PHUKET: Norwegian Stein Havard Dokset was today (January 29) sentenced to a total of nine years in jail at the end of his trial in the infamous “body in the bin” case.

Dokset was sentenced to 15 years for unintentionally killing his partner Rungnapa “June” Ratchasombut, in 2009, at his home in Kata.

He also was sentenced to a year in jail for attempting to hide June’s body.

Because he pleaded guilty to both of these accusations, the sentences were halved, for a total of eight years.

He denied, however, illegal possession of a gun, arguing that a pistol found in his house belonged to June, not him. The judge disagreed and sentenced him to another year for that offence – for a total of nine years.

In addition to the jail time, the court ordered Dikset to pay her two children B500,000 comnsation each, with a further B400,000 for each of her parents, the numbers having been reached after lengthy negotiations with the family.

Dokset was originally charged with murder but he always maintained that he did not murder June; that her death was accidental, coming in the middle of furious row that became physical.

After her death he bundled her into a wheelie bin which he taped shut and stowed in one of the eight bedrooms in the house.

It was almost three years before police, acting on information received, were able to get a search warrant and discovered the bin and its gruesome decayed contents. June could be identified only by DNA matching.

Source: http://www.thephuketnews.com/accused-in-phuket-body-in-bin-case-gets-nine-years-50789.php


-- Phuket News 2015-01-29

[Rickster]

9 years is not enough.....He's got away with murder....literally!!

[mrtoad]

What a joke of a sentence.

[NomadJoe]

Apparently Stein Dokset has been sentenced to 9 years....he already has served 3 years, so only 6 to go.

And likely will not end up serving all of that. I suspect 3-4 years more. It's not easy time in the PPP.

[ChoakMyDee]

Easy explanation why only 9 years...he had enough money to pay off the family.

[RT555]

You sit around for 2 years, knowing she's in the Bin?

730 Days

17,520 Hours

1,051,200 Minutes

And he couldn't decide to rid the body?

Must be one helluva alcoholic.

[monk213]

9 years is not enough.....He's got away with murder....literally!!

Do you think that being in a Thai prison for 9 years is going to be fun? Someone who stole a moped was killed in one who was serving something like 6 months (farang), so see how far this guy gets ...

[Rickster]

Do you think that being in a Thai prison for 9 years is going to be fun? Someone who stole a moped was killed in one who was serving something like 6 months (farang), so see how far this guy gets ...

Doesn't matter if it's a Thai prison or any other prison around the world, the fact is 9 years is a total joke for what he's done and basically makes a mockery of the justice system. If it were one of your family you'd have a different view!!

[monk213]

Do you think that being in a Thai prison for 9 years is going to be fun? Someone who stole a moped was killed in one who was serving something like 6 months (farang), so see how far this guy gets ...

Doesn't matter if it's a Thai prison or any other prison around the world, the fact is 9 years is a total joke for what he's done and basically makes a mockery of the justice system. If it were one of your family you'd have a different view!!

I will give you that yeah it is a really light sentence, I really do not understand this country sometimes. The guy who chopped up his wife was released within some years.. But someone slinging ecstasy will get a nice hefty sentence.

[Rickster]

I will give you that yeah it is a really light sentence, I really do not understand this country sometimes. The guy who chopped up his wife was released within some years.. But someone slinging ecstasy will get a nice hefty sentence.

So the moral of the story is....Don't deal drugs be a psychopath serial killer instead!! lol

[monk213]

I will give you that yeah it is a really light sentence, I really do not understand this country sometimes. The guy who chopped up his wife was released within some years.. But someone slinging ecstasy will get a nice hefty sentence.

So the moral of the story is....Don't deal drugs be a psychopath serial killer instead!! lol

Well both outcomes serve jail time but if you want the easy way in life I guess yeah, go cut up your other half and then get a pardon and get released. Wait, where am I again, is this Sesame Street?

[muffy]

He loved her .

[muffy]

1. Money talks .

[enufsaid]

The judicial system in Australia is just as bad, life for murder in Australia is suppose to be 25 years, but unless you're a serial murderer you're out in 12 years or even less.and you don't have to pay compensation to families

[balo]

According to Norwegian newspaper VG he might end up in Norway , an agreement between Thailand and Norway could lead to Dokset being transfered to Norway to continue serving the 9 year sentence. If that's true , it's very good news for him as he can look forward to stay in a prison that looks more like a hotel with gym, tv , internet, and free meals.

Source:

www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/likfunnet-i-thailand/nordmann-doemt-til-ni-aars-fengsel-for-drap-paa-eks-kjaereste/a/23383205/

Edited January 29, 2015 by balo

[razer]

Makes no sense at all. If it was an accident then why didn't he call the police? Now, if he murdered the woman, ten he would have reason to hide the body. Is this reasoning to complex?

[Bogan Koori]

He has to be happy with that result. He will probably serve 4 years. I'm surprised no one has knocked him in jail though. The victims brother was a cop. Surely he has connections. Looks like he will be back posting on Thaivisa soon. I wonder if he remembers his password in 4 years time.

[transam]

He has to be happy with that result. He will probably serve 4 years. I'm surprised no one has knocked him in jail though. The victims brother was a cop. Surely he has connections. Looks like he will be back posting on Thaivisa soon. I wonder if he remembers his password in 4 years time.

Fink the victims HUSBAND was the cop...............

[Bogan Koori]

He has to be happy with that result. He will probably serve 4 years. I'm surprised no one has knocked him in jail though. The victims brother was a cop. Surely he has connections. Looks like he will be back posting on Thaivisa soon. I wonder if he remembers his password in 4 years time.

Fink the victims HUSBAND was the cop...............

That's right. I remember now

[KarenBravo]

Makes no sense at all. If it was an accident then why didn't he call the police? Now, if he murdered the woman, ten he would have reason to hide the body. Is this reasoning to complex?

Because he made his living by renting out villas that were in Rungnapa's name.

If her body was found, the properties would go to her next of kin and he would lose his income.

[Jim walker]

A very evil man to do such a thing to a woman and conceal her body for two years from her family 9 years far too lenient a sentence hope his life is hell in prison.

[stevenl]

I also doubt it easy an accident, but think that to prove intent would be really difficult, apparently even impossible.

[ball dip]

According to Norwegian newspaper VG he might end up in Norway , an agreement between Thailand and Norway could lead to Dokset being transfered to Norway to continue serving the 9 year sentence. If that's true , it's very good news for him as he can look forward to stay in a prison that looks more like a hotel with gym, tv , internet, and free meals.

Source:

www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/likfunnet-i-thailand/nordmann-doemt-til-ni-aars-fengsel-for-drap-paa-eks-kjaereste/a/23383205/

they say some prisons in scandyville provide a better qaulity of life then if your at the very low income level of the average american today.

why work a shit job for 20k year fresh out of highschool, might as well catch a murder charge in sweden and get your own apartment, music studio and art classes all sponser'd by the socialist philosophers of sweden.

[gchurch259]

Makes no sense at all. If it was an accident then why didn't he call the police? Now, if he murdered the woman, ten he would have reason to hide the body. Is this reasoning to complex?

You have to be really sick to live in the house with a body stuffed a bin for two years plus !! He needs to be in a Lunnt Bin in Norway, why should Thailand have to support their rejects !!

Edited January 29, 2015 by gchurch259

[catweazle]

9 years in the slammer sound like a lottery ticket, given to this scum, for murder... Does this mean, that the longer you conceal your murdered victim in a bin, tub, pond, etc. the lower your sentence will be? If yes, then I'd like to murder a German psycho ex-business partner of mine whose body I would then keep hidden for... let's do the math:

Victim's remains concealed for 2 years = from death penalty reduced to 9 years (equals 45 years vs. 9 years) = 40% deduction per "hidden" year

Victim's remains concealed for 3 years = from 9 years to 5.4 years

Victim's remains concealed for 4 years = from 5.4 years to 3.2 years

Victim's remains concealed for 5 years = from 3.2 years to 1.9 years

Victim's remains concealed for 6 years = from 1.9 years to 1.14 years

Victim's remains concealed for 7 years = from 1.14 years to 0.68 years

Victim's remains concealed for 8 years = from 0.68 years to 0.4 years... roughly 5 months... well, that does it for me... What should I use? Formalin?

[MRGTINGTONG]

In one of his eight bedrooms, must be a big place then......

[monk213]

The judicial system in Australia is just as bad, life for murder in Australia is suppose to be 25 years, but unless you're a serial murderer you're out in 12 years or even less.and you don't have to pay compensation to families

Same in the UK, I know of a landlord of a pub who got ran over by someone on purpose and was killed, the guy who did it was 19 I think and he got 7 years and you can be assured that will be halved with good behavior. I by no means support the death penalty, but some people should be kept out of society, not put down but kept away.

The death penalty is no real justice imo, it doesn't prevent murders, the US has one of if not the height murder rate of any fully developed country and yet the rest of the EU and Aus have abolished it. Killing these people is giving them a way out anyways and it won't bring back who they have killed, so keep them away from normal society for the rest of their lives, plus mistakes can be made and people have been innocently killed in the US because of it. This is my view anyway.

[andreandre]

9 years is not enough.....He's got away with murder....literally!!

Do you think that being in a Thai prison for 9 years is going to be fun? Someone who stole a moped was killed in one who was serving something like 6 months (farang), so see how far this guy gets ...

He's already survived 3 years in there,so another 6 probably will survive.....i really thought/hoped that he would have been dispensed some good old jail justice by now to be honest...Hes a pig of a man!