British gal raped and murdered Samui

[cavanami]

If it was my daughter...fry 'em!!!

 

The death penalty is the best measure for control crime.

 

Life in prison, a waste...extra burden on the taxpayer, no closure for the family, I say end it quick!

 

Where is the group that speaks for the victims???

 

We only hear these "bleeding hearts" whining for the criminals!

[Flashermac]

<< Where is the group that speaks for the victims??? >>

 

Uh, did you even read the report? It was the victim's closest kin that was speaking! Or maybe a mother doesn't count???

 

<< We only hear these "bleeding hearts" whining for the criminals! >>

 

So Elizabeth Horton is a whining bleeding heart. Why don't you tell her that to her face?

[Flashermac]

p.s. Having said that, I won't get too upset if the killers get whacked. No great loss ... except it is too easy for them.

[sayjann]

'Amnesty International Thailand expressed concern yesterday over the fate of two fishermen accused of raping and killing British student Katherine Horton on Samui Island on January 1'

 

fine for them to say.

why do these sort of organasations think more of the criminals then the victims?.

Katherine's Mother has said she wants no death penalty as she comes from a Country which does not support it.

but in Thailand and many other Countries their Laws demand extreme measures.

why can we not let Countries with Laws carry out their sentences?.

why must we get involved and tell them they are wrong and nothing worse than savages?.

 

if a Member of my Family was killed in Thailand and the cunts were caught i would be in Thaksins face demanding i pull the fucking trigger.

 

fuck the do-gooders...............

[Flashermac]

I've always been puzzled at how bloodthirsty the Thais are, since Buddhism teaches that it is wrong to kill anything -- even an insect. But when I would ask students what they thought of capital punishment, the vast majority would be in favour of it. They would say the evil doers deserved to die. Never quite understood how they reconcile that with their religious beliefs. Then again, most Thais have only a very shallow understanding of Buddhism -- and pray to Hindu gods, Chinese gods, spirits and anything else they can think of (including rocks and trees). Plus they wear "magic amulets", which the Buddha himself taught were superstitious nonsense.

 

[Guest]

UPDATE

 

The two Thai fisherman have just received the full monty - death by lethal injection.

 

Of course the sentence may be commuted to life at a later stage, but that?s doubtful. As it stands at the minute they have got the lot.

 

I thought the courts may arrive at life, considering the mothers comments this week.

 

 

 

(dpa) - The Surat Thani criminal court has sentenced two Thai fishermen to death for the rape and murder of British tourist Katherine Horton on New Year's Day on Koh Samui.

 

Surat Thani Provincial Chief Judge Pongsak Takulsin said the death sentence was appropriate for the accused, Bualoy Phothisit, 23, and Wichai Sonkhaoyai, 24, because of the brutal nature of the murder and its negative impact on Thailand's reputation.

 

"Forensic experts said the chance of error is only one in six billion. This is the most significant evidence in the case," said the judge who read the verdict.

 

"The court considers that the evidence proves without a doubt that the two suspects committed the crime of gang rape and murder. . . Their minds are inhuman. They murdered the victim to conceal their crime."

 

Horton, 21, was allegedly raped by the two fishermen on the evening of Jan 1 while vacationing at Samui island. After their arrest, the two men confessed to beating Horton unconscious, raping her, beating her again and then dumping her body in Lamai Bay.

 

Horton's mother Elizabeth reportedly requested that the court not sentence her daughter's murders to death but the court chose otherwise.

 

Judge Pongsak cited the fact that the victim of the murder was a foreigner as another reason for not reducing the sentence.

 

 

[Flashermac]

So it's permissible to rape and murder Thai women???

 

Anyway:

 

 

Death sentence for Horton's killers

Jan 18, 2006

 

By Pracha Hariraksapitak

 

 

SURAT THANI, Thailand (Reuters) - Two Thai fishermen were sentenced to death on Wednesday for raping and murdering 21-year-old Reading University student Katherine Horton, after an unusually short trial and sustained political pressure.

 

"The court has ruled them guilty of all the crimes they were charged with and imposes the maximum penalty," judge Jamnong Sudjaimai told the two men in the packed courtroom in the southern province of Surat Thani.

 

"Such brutal and torturous behaviour of those two have shocked society, therefore the court sentenced them to death for committing murder to hide their crime."

 

Bualoi Posit, 23, and Wichai Somkhaoyai, 24, who face execution by lethal injection, pleaded guilty last Thursday to charges of rape and the pre-meditated murder of Horton on the resort island of Samui.

 

They have 30 days to appeal. Wichai told reporters he would appeal, but Bualoi's lawyer said he needed to discuss this with his family.

 

Police say the pair had watched pornographic movies on their boat before swimming ashore to rape Horton, who was on holiday on Koh Samui with a friend over the New Year.

 

Horton's body was found in the sea just off Samui on January 2 and her killers were arrested on January 9. Three days later they were charged in court.

 

After they were sentenced, the two looked grim as they faced reporters and television crews who packed the courtroom.

 

"I am sorry for what I have done," Wichai said. "I apologise for ruining the country's image."

 

The whole process from arrest to trial was unusually quick for Thailand, where tourism is an important industry, after the case drew the attention of international media.

 

Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra called for the most severe penalty even though the suspects confessed -- a move which normally persuades courts to avoid the death penalty -- which is rarely carried out. The last announced publicly was in 2003.

 

According to Amnesty International, about 900 people were thought to be on death row in 2005, but there were no executions.

 

A spokesman for the British Embassy in Bangkok declined to comment on the verdict.

 

"We are not going to comment on the judicial proceedings, given the avenue for an appeal. At the moment, our thoughts and sympathies are with Katherine's family," he said.

 

With its picture postcard beaches and vibrant nightlife, Thailand remains one of the most popular non-European destinations for British holidaymakers, with about 750,000 Britons visiting in 2005, according to the embassy.

 

But there is a seamier side to the "Land of Smiles". Nine Britons have been murdered in Thailand since August, 2004, the embassy said. Sexual crimes against foreigners are not uncommon.

 

"Female travellers in particular should maintain a high state of personal awareness during their time in Thailand," the embassy says in its country travel advisory.

 

Horton was the first foreign woman to be raped and killed in Thailand for three years, according to national police data.

 

Another foreign tourist, a 29-year-old Briton model believed to be from Liverpool, was raped last week in the eastern resort beach of Pattaya and a Thai man had confessed to the crime, police said.

 

"We are awaiting test results to see if the suspect's DNA matches that found on the victim," Lieutenant-Colonel Apimuk Amnajmunkhong told Reuters by telephone.

 

Only one foreign women filed a rape report with police in 2004 and five in 2005, but none was killed, a tourist police officer told Reuters, quoting national police data.

 

But police officers said the data could be misleading since many victims, both Thais and foreigners, were too embarrassed to report sexual assaults.

[Pom Michael]

Murder on 1 Jan 2006

Sentenced to death on 18 Jan 2006

 

Speedy justice - good or bad ?

[Flashermac]

As long as they've got the right ones, it's good. And in this case they obviously have. But it could lead to abuses if speed takes precedence over accuracy. Remember when Kirsty Jones was raped and murdered in Chiang Mai around 5 years ago? The police immediately arrested the Scot who owned the guest house and tried to pin it on him. Fortunately for the Scot, with DNA testing nowadays, it was shown the killer came from an Asian DNA type.

[Zaad]

These guys SO DESERVE to rot in hell... or spend their miserable lives in a fucked up prison with little food and no showers and preferably sleeping in their own stinkin' dump.

 

They acted like sick animals so better start treating them like such.

 

I can't imagine anything like this ever happening to somebody I know.

Geez, I really feel for her family.