The Daily Mail 29/12/2013

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-398630/Brit-killed-barbecued--split-Thai-bride.html

Story is from 2006 http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/911565.0/

 

But that's the DM for you

Thanks for pointing this story out Stillearly

 

Brit killed and barbecued after split from Thai bride

A former public schoolboy was barbecued by his Thai wife after divorcing her when she ran up massive gambling debts, a court heard.

Toby Charnaud, 41, was clubbed to death with an iron bar and wooden staves by relatives of his ex-wife, Pannada Laoruang.

She then helped them burn his body on a charcoal fire, before chopping it up and scattering the charred remains around Kaeng Krajan National Park on the Thai-Burma border.

A Thai court heard how Mr Charnaud, who was educated at Marlborough College, sold £2.5million Latimer Manor estate near Chippenham, Wiltshire, after falling in love with 35-year-old Laoruang, whom he met in a Bangkok bar while on holiday.

The estate included a six-bedroom manor house with stables and paddocks.

After marrying, they lived with his parents in England before settling in the resort of Hua Hin, where he bought two bars to run with his new wife and became a popular figure in the local golf club.

They had a baby, but their relationship collapsed after Laoruang accumulated debts of £50,000 in high stakes card games. Mr Charnaud divorced his wife, giving her a £11,000 settlement, plus another £6,100 to help pay off her debts.

But when he visited her home after she called him to see their five-year-old son, Daniel, last March, three men tried to shoot him with a hunting musket. When the weapon backfired, they beat him to death.

Miss Laoruang later reported her husband missing to police. But in court she admitted it had been a lie, and she had in fact returned home from the market to find his body. Mr Charnaud's body was burned using 45lb (20kg) of charcoal bought earlier in the day, the court heard.

The murder was discovered only when Mr Charnaud's family in Britain became suspicious about his sudden disappearance and hired a local private detective to investigate.

After mobile phone records showed he had been at his ex-wife's house on the day he vanished, police raided the home - where two of the defendants confessed and led police to the body parts. The Charnauds' family lawyer, Boonchu Yensabai, told Petchaburi provincial court: "The only motive can be that Pannada expected to inherit everything through their son."

In a letter to the court, Mr Charnaud's 70-year-old mother, Sarah, said: "We welcomed Toby's ex-wife into our home and family until they moved to Thailand. To repay us by murdering my son is beyond my comprehension.

"One of the worst horrors of his death is the fact that the first attempt to kill him failed and he would have been aware of his murderers making their fatal attack. His fear and concern for his son would have been overwhelming.

"Toby was a wonderful father to his son and it is so unfair that a small boy has been deprived of a great father and a father has been deprived of seeing his son grow up."

Bizarrely, Mr Charnaud appeared to predict his own death in a short story which won first prize in a competition run by a Bangkok magazine shortly before he died.

It told how a British man's life collapses after he falls in love with a Thai woman. She builds up gambling debts and he is eventually murdered by one of her lovers.

Mr Charnaud's sister, Hannah Allen, said: "The story is eerie. I am sure he had his suspicions." Pannada-Laoruang denies premeditated-murder. Boontin Puipong, 31, Sattri Sripatum, 28, and Nipit Satabut, have admitted murder, but say they were provoked because Mr Charnaud interrupted them while they were drinking whisky.

All four also face charges of possessing a gun in a public place, deceiving police, and concealing the body. The case was adjourned until next month.

 

Ex public school boy and Bangkok bar girl is really tabloid heaven - the guys mistake was obviously not only going for her but mostly letting her know how much money he was worth.

 

It seems, by writing his "fictional" story it was not unexpected though.

 

A very sad story, will the magical "Get out of jail card" also known as $$$$$$ come into effect I wonder for his "grieving" widow and her cohorts ?

 

It has before in similar situations for others - I just hope not and of course what happens to the son and his inheritence ?

 

Just very very sad.

 

Edited December 29, 201312 yr by Beerburgerbonk

That's just crazy but another example of always being worth more alive than dead in Thailand . 

 

RIP . 

Yes, that happened years ago. If it happened at all.

 

The Daily Mail isn't exactly a bastion of credibility. 

 

The fact that they have now regurgitated the story 6 or 7 years later, presenting it as "news," proves the point.

 

They probably made it up the first time around.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-399068/Man-butchered-Thai-wife-foretold-murder.html

 

He wrote a story about his own murder.

The Daily Mail is a joke..........I cannot believe intelligent people read it at all.

...A very sad story, will the magical "Get out of jail card" also known as $$$$$$ come into effect I wonder for his "grieving" widow and her cohorts ?...

 

No, they were all convicted of murder. She got life. See post #2.

The Daily Mail is a joke..........I cannot believe intelligent people read it at all.

 

I read the daily mail, like I read Pattaya-addicts forum, it's entertaining.

The Fa-lung clubbed himself to death,then cremated himself afterwards and then he distributed his limbs about a bit.

 

Obviously,A most determined case of suicide.

 

Case closed.

The Daily Mail is a joke..........I cannot believe intelligent people read it at all.

They don't

This article was in The Mail years ago.    Has there been a new development?

so.. which papers ..if at all do the   "special ones" read........whats the real   news ... can you share it!!

This article was in The Mail years ago.    Has there been a new development?

Yes. They were all convicted of murder. The wife got life. Click the link in Post #2

I thought id heard that terrible story before,how come the DM published this story again,this should be brought to their attention!

No worries all you Daily mail haters (and lovers).

The OP got it wrong!!! There was no such article on that date, not sure what date they did post the article, because there is no date with the article.

But I am sure it was on the site a while, because you can't leave a comment anymore.

The Daily Mail 29/12/2013

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-398630/Brit-killed-barbecued--split-Thai-bride.html

 

Story is from 2006 http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/911565.0/

 

But that's the DM for you

 

Yes, that happened years ago. If it happened at all.

 

The Daily Mail isn't exactly a bastion of credibility. 

 

The fact that they have now regurgitated the story 6 or 7 years later, presenting it as "news," proves the point.

 

They probably made it up the first time around.

 

No worries all you Daily mail haters (and lovers).

The OP got it wrong!!! There was no such article on that date, not sure what date they did post the article, because there is no date with the article.

But I am sure it was on the site a while, because you can't leave a comment anymore.

 

Actually the daily mail got the story before gazette and herald. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/sitemaparchive/day_20060801.html (item 21)

Only a hour left and then I can go to sleep; any other mystery I can solve?

I read the daily mail, like I read Pattaya-addicts forum, it's entertaining.

Do they still have nudie pictures?

Do they still have nudie pictures?

 

Don't know I don't read nude pictures.

But watching Selena Gomez in bikini is good enough for me.

x

Edited January 2, 201412 yr by BruceSmith