Englishman murdered in Thailand.

[Khundon1975]

Thanks Lomuamart I had lost track of this crime.

I think the sentences are unfair, 25 years a piece for the older men and 7 years for the kid. I thought it was mandatory life sentence for murder! Still, being Burmese in a Thai hell hole won't be easy and I expect that will make the 25 years feel like 55.

Linda Robertson shows a great deal of compassion when she said;

"I do hope the time they spend in jail will help them reflect and realise the heinous crime they committed. I also believe they were victims themselves.

"I don't think they had any plan. The fact that they didn't kill me, which they could quite easily have done, shows some compassion for me."


" I don't want to trivialise Malcolm's death but I don't think 25 years in a Thai prison is going to be pleasant for them".

Good luck to you Mrs Robertson

[HuntingTigers]

I believe human life is invioable. I also hold that for any human being to take the life of another human being abrogates their right to invioability of their own life. If the perpetrator's thoughts and intentions were to kill then that is an act of murder. The penalty for which I hold ought to be death. If it will salve the conscience of those who hold that any killing is wrong then I offer the alternative of incarceration without remission.

The sentences is this case are inadequate. This was an act of piracy upon the high seas. Those who participate in such activities ought to be under no illusions, that if they are brought to account for their nefarious activities, of the consequences that they will suffer. Seven years imprisonment for the younger participant in this heinous crime is prima facie an affront to justice.

There may well be mitigating circumstances to which we, the public, are not privy to, which would account for the court's leniency with regard to the sentencing of these criminals.

HuntingTigers