Does NOT matter if she was 17 or if she'd only been in Pattaya for a couple days. That does NOT excuse her being brutally murdered and having her body dumped in a ditch like a bag of garbage. Her parent's story is suspect as it is very unlikely the girl came to Pattaya, immediately got (3+) tattoos and met some random guy and agreed to go back to his condo for money in the first couple of days after arriving. Anyone who's been in Pattaya for more than a day would/should know that she's been "in the game" for awhile now, whether her parents admit it or not. I've met a number of girls over the years who admitted that their mom "knew" what they were doing - but dad wasn't in on it. (Or wasn't willing to admit that he knew as well.) And as sad as it may be, in Thailand it is COMMON practise for a guilty person to offer the victim's family money in exchange for having charges dropped completely. Not likely to happen in this case due to the publicity and the details of the murder. But IF he pleads guilty and shows remorse and IF the family accepts the "compensation" offered, he might get half the normal sentence - which is STANDARD practise in Thailand. A couple Royal Pardons (if he's eligible) and suddenly he's only facing 7-8 years in Thai prison. And ! With a Prisoner Transfer Agreement between Australia and Thailand - once he's completed 25% of his sentence, he'd be eligible to be transferred to an Australian prison assuming Thailand, Australia and the prisoner agree to the transfer. Theoretically he'd have to serve the remainder of his sentence in Australia - but with different laws, lawyers and rules about probation - he could end up being released after just a couple years. Consider the case of the Canadian Michael Karas who murdered a young woman in 1996, mutilated her face (to hinder recognition), dismembered her body, stuffed it into suitcases and dumped them in a nearby (Pattaya) swamp. Got on a plane and flew back to Canada where he was arrested for violating his probation (he was a life-long criminal in Canada before he went to Thailand). Thailand tried to have him extradited so he confessed to a couple "cold case" crimes to get a few more years added to his sentence, hoping to run out the clock or something. He did get extradited eventually, tried in Thailand and sent to prison for 20+ years. But FIVE years to the day after he was sentenced, his lawyer and some pathetic moron reporter for a Toronto newspaper wrote a sob story article about how the poor guy had been rail-roaded by the Thai justice system and had been in prison for "half a decade" already ! Deliberately saying "half a decade" because they KNEW that saying "5 years" wouldn't sound like much considering what he'd done. The lawyer argued that Karas should be returned to Canada and released immediately ! Then they applied for a Prisoner Transfer, which the Public Safety Minister (a scumbag Liberal) approved despite having been personally informed of Karas's criminal history AND what he'd done in Thailand. Corrections Canada ASSURED me that Karas would be properly supervised (etc etc). He was returned to Canada - in secret - shortly after and within WEEKS was already released and totally FREE ! NO probation - NOTHING. And we only found out that because less than a year later he was arrested (again) for a string of bank robberies he commited literally immediately after his release !! So he only ended up serving 5 years for murdering a young woman, mutilating her face, dismembering her body and throwing it into a swamp !!! And the LIBERALS (in Canada) think THAT was "justice". Not sure how the gov't in Australia would view a similar situation. Depends who's in charge at the time I suppose.
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