Reephdweller
11-11-2003, 03:11 PM
Doctor disposed of wife in hotel toilets
From AFP
November 11, 2003
A Thai doctor was sentenced to death Monday for murdering his wife and chopping her body into pieces, court officials said, in a case that shocked the kingdom when it was revealed two years ago.
The Southern Bangkok Criminal Court found gynaecologist Wisut Boonkasemsanti guilty of the gruesome murder, in which he stood accused of disposing of the dismembered body by flushing it down two hotel toilets.
Tests on body parts found in the septic tanks of the two buildings visited by Wisut matched the DNA of his wife Phassaporn, who was head of obstetrics at a local hospital. However, her skeleton and other remains were never found.
"From the evidence, the court found the defendant guilty of pre-meditated murder of his wife and disposing of her body,'' the court official told AFP, citing Judge Kookiert Suthornbura's ruling.
"The defendant denied the charges, but the court found it had no reason to decrease his penalty, so it decided to sentence him to death."
Prosecutors initially refused to try Wisut saying it could not be confirmed that Phassaporn had died as her body had not been found, but a public outcry pushed prosecutors to again take up the case.
Phassaporn's father filed a suit against Wisut, and in 2001 the courts said that circumstantial evidence, including the DNA tests, established she had died.
Wisut was also seen on closed-circuit television footage escorting her out of a restaurant on Feburary 20, 2001, the day she disappeared. She appeared unsteady on her feet in the footage, leading to allegations she was drugged.
A marital dispute between Wisut, a famous gynaecologist accused of having affairs with several patients, and his wife may have provided a motive for the grisly murder, according to the Thai press which avidly followed the case.
Wisut originally alerted police in February 2001 that his wife had disappeared, but as a massive media spotlight on the shocking case grew and police named him as a suspect, he turned himself in.
The doctor has 30 days to file an appeal.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,7832105%255E29677,00.html
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From AFP
November 11, 2003
A Thai doctor was sentenced to death Monday for murdering his wife and chopping her body into pieces, court officials said, in a case that shocked the kingdom when it was revealed two years ago.
The Southern Bangkok Criminal Court found gynaecologist Wisut Boonkasemsanti guilty of the gruesome murder, in which he stood accused of disposing of the dismembered body by flushing it down two hotel toilets.
Tests on body parts found in the septic tanks of the two buildings visited by Wisut matched the DNA of his wife Phassaporn, who was head of obstetrics at a local hospital. However, her skeleton and other remains were never found.
"From the evidence, the court found the defendant guilty of pre-meditated murder of his wife and disposing of her body,'' the court official told AFP, citing Judge Kookiert Suthornbura's ruling.
"The defendant denied the charges, but the court found it had no reason to decrease his penalty, so it decided to sentence him to death."
Prosecutors initially refused to try Wisut saying it could not be confirmed that Phassaporn had died as her body had not been found, but a public outcry pushed prosecutors to again take up the case.
Phassaporn's father filed a suit against Wisut, and in 2001 the courts said that circumstantial evidence, including the DNA tests, established she had died.
Wisut was also seen on closed-circuit television footage escorting her out of a restaurant on Feburary 20, 2001, the day she disappeared. She appeared unsteady on her feet in the footage, leading to allegations she was drugged.
A marital dispute between Wisut, a famous gynaecologist accused of having affairs with several patients, and his wife may have provided a motive for the grisly murder, according to the Thai press which avidly followed the case.
Wisut originally alerted police in February 2001 that his wife had disappeared, but as a massive media spotlight on the shocking case grew and police named him as a suspect, he turned himself in.
The doctor has 30 days to file an appeal.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,7832105%255E29677,00.html
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