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Brit convicted of Thai sex worker murder

Post by GT93 » June 5, 2022, 3:26 pm

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... tcase.html

It took them a while but the Thai justice system eventually caught up with a low life.
A Thai court has today convicted a British man of the 2014 murder of a sex worker whose dismembered body was found in a suitcase dumped in a river. Shane Kenneth Looker, 52, was given an eight-year prison sentence for killing Laxami Manochat, 31, in a hotel room and disposing of her body. Her remains were discovered days later when a bag was found in a river 95 miles away, in Kanchanaburi province ...

An official at the court in the western town of Kanchanaburi said: 'The defendant is found guilty of charges and sentenced to 16 years in jail but due to his confession, the court reduced his sentence by half to eight years without suspended jail term.'
He seems to have been treated pretty leniently.


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Post by nickboyuk » June 5, 2022, 5:29 pm

The sentence is a joke. 8 years....

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Re: Brit convicted of Thai sex worker murder

Post by jackspratt » June 5, 2022, 7:05 pm

Yep ...... strange place where you can get 100+ years in the calaboose for saying the wrong words about you know who, but only 8 years for cold blooded murder. :-k

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Re: Brit convicted of Thai sex worker murder

Post by stattointhailand » June 5, 2022, 7:30 pm

That must have been a problem ......... How do you convict him of killing a sex worker when sex workers dont exist in Thailand?

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Post by samuel » June 5, 2022, 7:31 pm

he got 16 years and because of the confession half = 8 years.
8 years in a Thai prison is the same as 16 years in an English prison - I think.
if he survives it at all.
if not … so what.
who cares?
not me

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Re: Brit convicted of Thai sex worker murder

Post by jackspratt » June 5, 2022, 7:44 pm

Deleted - not relevant.
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Re: Brit convicted of Thai sex worker murder

Post by stattointhailand » June 5, 2022, 7:49 pm

jackspratt wrote:
June 5, 2022, 7:44 pm
And the 100+ year sentence?
I suspect the old style punishment (cutting the tongue out) might actually be preferable Jack :-k

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Re: Brit convicted of Thai sex worker murder

Post by GT93 » June 6, 2022, 2:05 am

I suspect the victim being a sex worker explains the leniency. The leniency is shameful.
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Re: Brit convicted of Thai sex worker murder

Post by Khun Paul » June 6, 2022, 8:16 am

So here if you kill a person whose work is deemed illegal and you admit to it, about 8 years,
So rhetorical question if you kill a Policeman who is working a scam, only 8 years ?????????????????

Sentence on the British man too lenient, min 25 years with parole available after 20. in my book Profession of thevictim irrelevant .

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Re: Brit convicted of Thai sex worker murder

Post by stattointhailand » June 6, 2022, 8:46 am

You should get off scot free if the copper was lying through his teeth to cover for other bent collegues :-k

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