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DaffyDuck
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Sensitive issue? Why?
Farang kill their spouses a lot in Thailand (well, often enough to make the news in Pattaya and Bangkok), though usually it's some Swede or Swiss guy bludgeoning his Thai girlfriend or wife - so, the fact that a killing took place is nothing new.
Sensitive because it was a farang killing his farang wife (now, that's an interesting twist) ; or because it portrayed an Australian as not the brightest bulb in the pack?
I'd vote for the latter.
Mr. Alan might not be that far off in his speculation, I'd wager -- I wonder if this guy had no education and no marketable skills and that's why he... hey, wait....!
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Posted on: 11:45 pm on Dec. 23, 2005
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kenneth
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Sensitive cos I might have known the guy, or the woman or friends of theirs.
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Posted on: 1:38 am on Dec. 24, 2005
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DaffyDuck
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Then, if the issue was of any possible sensitivity to you, why did you post it as a teaser, before further investigating, knowing for sure, and then being able to post less foolishly?
Anyway, the news has now made the international press (or, at least, Australian press)
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/12/24/1135353181328.html
Clearly, he wasn't the smartest guy around, and certainly not quite socially adept - they both worked in IT, which paints a much different picture than the speculation earlier in the thread.
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A 44-year-old Australian man who allegedly beat his Canadian wife to death in Thailand says he has lost the light of his life.
Stewart Keith McLeod, originally from the NSW Mid North Coast, is being held at a Bangkok police station lock-up.
He faced a remand hearing and will later be transferred to a prison until the case comes to trial.
McLeod will face charges of murdering his 61-year-old Canadian-born wife, Barbara, in the early hours of Friday during a violent domestic fight at their Bangkok residence.
Both were working in the information technology (IT) industry in Asia over the past decade having met each other while working in Hong Kong before marrying.
They had been married for nine years.
McLeod, was a data base analyst with Thai telecommunications company, True Corporation, while his wife had also been employed as a consultant in the Thai telecom sector.
In an interview with AAP shortly after returning from court, McLeod spoke of his remorse over the incident saying he could remember arguing with his wife but "nothing else".
"I don't remember. There was an argument then I don't remember," he told AAP from behind bars at the local police station.
But in earlier interviews with police and officials McLeod had described events in graphic detail, officials said, allegedly telling how he had bludgeoned his wife to death over a period of 10 minutes of repeated beatings.
"It was a pretty heated argument," he said, but refused to say what had triggered the domestic fight.
"I guess I lost my temper. It was the first one in nine years," he allegedly said.
McLeod said while his work at True Corp was not that stressful, his wife's work had been.
"She had been working long hours and that makes it hard; we had had not much time together," he said.
Work colleagues who visited the police cells expressed shock by the tragic events.
"He was always very professional," said a Thai woman from True Corp who did not want to be identified.
Others IT industry professionals interviewed by AAP said Mrs McLeod was also popular.
"She's very good. People liked her a lot," said a 40-year old former employee of telecommunications company, Hutch.
Industry sources said friends of the couple had spoken to Barbara at about 8pm on Thursday night on the telephone but had to cut short the conversation as she was readying to go out for dinner.
In the early hours of Friday morning McLeod allegedly took the body and buried it in a shallow grave.
"I was shocked. I panicked. It was not like it was pre-meditated. Basically I tried to cover up (the murder)," he had said.
Later as part of his ruse he called acquaintances at Hutch seeking assistance to locate his wife. The friends had unsuccessfully tried to call her on her mobile.
"I don't think it's forgivable. If I could only take it back. But I can't. Ill be doing time, whatever it is, and I'll just have to live with it afterwards," police allege he had said.
He had also initially gone to the police station to lodge missing persons report. But while being interviewed police received a call that a body of a foreign women had been discovered in the area.
"I don't want to diminish (what had happened). Two people in a room, an argument and at the end of it one of them is dead," he said.
"In one night I managed to lose the lady... the light of my life," he is alleged to have said.
"My life is over. I've hurt everybody I know," he said.
No date has been set for the trial.
Thai media reports said Thai police had searched the home and found bloodstains in the bedroom on the floor and the stairs.
The reports said McLeod confessed to the murder, taking police to where he hid the murder weapon, a hammer, in his luggage.
A blood-stained bed sheet was also recovered, the media reports said.
© 2005 AAP
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Posted on: 3:44 pm on Dec. 24, 2005
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kenneth
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Who are you duck, the forum police? Do you reckon it is possible for a tosser like you to make a post without throwing a hissy fit?
Do you actually have anything useful to offer rather than cutting and pasting news articles from papers?
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Posted on: 8:41 pm on Dec. 24, 2005
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DaffyDuck
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Quote: from kenneth on 10:19 am on Dec. 25, 2005
Who are you duck, the forum police? Do you reckon it is possible for a tosser like you to make a post without throwing a hissy fit?
No, utterly impossible. I can't post without a hissy fit. Ever.
Quote: from kenneth on 10:19 am on Dec. 25, 2005
Do you actually have anything useful to offer rather than cutting and pasting news articles from papers?
Well, considering that you provided no information, and I found and pasted the article about the situation in question, I believe your question is moot.
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Posted on: 11:18 pm on Dec. 24, 2005
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kenneth
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That's it, you're off my christmas card list.
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Posted on: 11:51 pm on Dec. 24, 2005
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AmoresPerros
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Quote: from kenneth on 1:29 pm on Dec. 25, 2005
That's it, you're off my christmas card list.
ROTFLMAO!!!!
That's gotta be the the xmas tragedy of the century!! brought to you live from Bangkok by keneth, only on Bangkoktonight.com
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Posted on: 12:13 am on Dec. 25, 2005
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