Phuket Boy Kills Brutal Stepfather With Tomahawk As He Sleeps

**StrontiumDog** · 22-08-2012, 03:12 PM

Phuket Boy Kills Brutal Stepfather With Tomahawk As He Sleeps - Phuket Wan

The mother talks to Phuket police today after her son killed her lover
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Phuket Boy Kills Brutal Stepfather With Tomahawk As He Sleeps

By Sert Tongdee
Wednesday, August 22, 2012

PHUKET: A 15-year-old Phuket boy killed his stepfather with a tomahawk while the man slept, Phuket police said today.

First, the boy lifted back a mosquito net in the main bedroom at the family home in southern Phuket, an officer told Phuketwan.

Then he removed his sleeping three-year-old stepsister from the bed, placing the child, still asleep, in another room.

The boy then returned to the bedroom, lifted the mosquito net again, and killed his stepfather with two blows to the head with the tomahawk.

Police said the boy and his mother went to Chalong police station today to confess to the brutal murder.

The boy cannot be identified because he is under age, so the stepfather and the mother also cannot be identified.

Family life was brutal, Chalong police in southern Phuket were told. The stepfather would often drink heavily, then beat the mother.

On Monday night, the man went out to a karaoke and returned in the early hours of the following morning, beating his wife yet again.

The 15-year-old awoke to find his mother in tears, with her bags packed, leaving the house.

Soon after, having seen his mother beaten time and time again, the boy took to his stepfather with the tomahawk.

Having killed the man, he rode off on a motorcycle with his young stepsister to join his mother at another house nearby.

A family friend discovered the grisly scene later when he called by the house, having failed to get a response by mobile telephone from either the stepfather or the mother.

Officers say any judge on Phuket is likely to take into account the brutality of the relationship in sentencing the boy to detention.

**The Big Fella** · 22-08-2012, 03:29 PM

I read this as abused wife kills drunken husband and gets son to cop the blame !

**alitongkat** · 22-08-2012, 03:33 PM

and she left and let the 3 year old girl back...

**DrB0b** · 22-08-2012, 03:45 PM

If the story is true then good for him! Well done, that kid.

**alitongkat** · 22-08-2012, 03:46 PM

Originally Posted by StrontiumDog

Officers say any judge on Phuket is likely to take into account the brutality of the relationship in sentencing the boy to detention.

from the article, the stepfather had never beaten the children...

and when the mother had already left with packed bags, then there was nothing to worry anymore...

officers already know what the judge will say - how comes...?

**BobR** · 22-08-2012, 03:48 PM

The 15 year old killed the stepfather and is claiming abuse as his defense, and his mother is backing the story. Great, probably true, but might also be exaggerated or maybe even a total lie.

The quality of the journalism here that reports the abuse as if it were a proven fact is regrettable. Being murdered in your sleep is a lousy way to go and the deceased will never have a chance to tell his version of the story.

Not saying it is, but it might be a spoiled bratty Thai male and the stepfather dared to say that awful word "no" to him with lethal results. It's a little early in the investigation, if there is even going to be one, for even the police to know the true facts.

Alitongkat made a good point too about the mother leaving the younger sister with this guy if he was that violent and dangerous, that does not seem logical.

**DrB0b** · 22-08-2012, 03:59 PM

Originally Posted by alitongkat

Originally Posted by StrontiumDog

Officers say any judge on Phuket is likely to take into account the brutality of the relationship in sentencing the boy to detention.

from the article, the stepfather had never beaten the children...

Right, any normal kid would only worry if he himself was getting a beating. It would be really, really weird for a child to be upset at seeing his mother beaten senseless. That would just make a mockery of the whole parent-child relationship, which is, of course, based solely on contempt, on disinterest and lack of affection

Originally Posted by alitongkat

and when the mother had already left with packed bags, then there was nothing to worry anymore...

Uhuh, everything would be just peachy after that, case closed, rainbows and sunshine

If you're on drugs, please stop. If you're not then you need some right away.

Originally Posted by BobR

Alitongkat made a good point too about the mother leaving the younger sister with this guy if he was that violent and dangerous, that does not seem logical.

It doesn't necessarily follow that wife-beaters are violent and brutal to everyone around them.

**Exige** · 22-08-2012, 04:01 PM

Poor little girl, just lost her father thanks to her step brother........

**alitongkat** · 22-08-2012, 04:08 PM

Originally Posted by DrB0b

If the story is true then good for him! Well done, that kid.

beating someone is of course not acceptable,
and its certainly difficult for a child to watch this,

but beating a sleeping man to death is murder...

better you adjust your drug dose...

**DrB0b** · 22-08-2012, 04:12 PM

Originally Posted by alitongkat

but beating a sleeping man to death is murder...

Yes, so what. If this man got his thrills by beating the crap out of his wife then beating him to death, while murder, or at least homicide, is also, IMO, justified. Why is the sleeping part so important anyway? Perhaps you think the child should have challenged him to a duel?

**alitongkat** · 22-08-2012, 04:17 PM

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Originally Posted by alitongkat

but beating a sleeping man to death is murder...

Yes, so what. If this man got his thrills by beating the crap out of his wife then beating him to death, while murder, or at least homicide, is also, IMO, justified. Why is the sleeping part so important anyway? Perhaps you think the child should have challenged him to a duel?

maybe in some culture, beating his wife would have the death sentence as punishment ? ok, no problem ...

this here is not about whether the stepfathers dead was justified or not...

its about the deed of the stepson...

**DrB0b** · 22-08-2012, 04:19 PM

Originally Posted by alitongkat

its not about whether the stepfathers dead was justified or not... its about the deed of the stepson...

Yes, obviously. I've said several times now that if the story is true then I thoroughly approve the stepson's actions. So what's your point?

**alitongkat** · 22-08-2012, 04:23 PM

i dont approve the stepsons actions..

**Zooheekock** · 22-08-2012, 04:45 PM

from the article, the stepfather had never beaten the children.

It doesn't say that at all. From this article, you can't say anything about whether he beat the child or not. Hard to say whether it's justified without knowing some more. I had a look at Thairath which has mostly the same details (though with no mention of the stepsister but with the full name and address of the victim and in an earlier version the wife's details too - is that really necessary?). If there was a long pattern of abuse then maybe it's justified. If it's a one-off then I think a tomahawk to the head is a bit much.

**DrB0b** · 22-08-2012, 04:46 PM

Originally Posted by alitongkat

i dont approve the stepsons actions..

Good for you. It's not obligatory.

**SiLeakHunt** · 22-08-2012, 05:08 PM

In the Uk this would be a huge news item, as I'm not in Thailand at the moment I can only assume its just another one of those mad things that happens in the country that will be tomorrow's som tam wrappers

**alitongkat** · 22-08-2012, 05:23 PM

did the mother really leave the 3 year old girl back - next to the probably drunken father?

or was this made up, to present the son as so caring and nice?

**Neo** · 22-08-2012, 06:48 PM

Good on the kid for manning up and saving his mum and sister from a life sentence of hell.

**BillyBobThai** · 22-08-2012, 08:19 PM

Two ax blows to the head, not a pretty site. I wish the kid much luck with this.

**Albert Shagnastier** · 22-08-2012, 08:42 PM

Originally Posted by DrB0b

If you're on drugs, please stop. If you're not then you need some right away.

**monsoonmills** · 22-08-2012, 08:49 PM

Nobody deserves to die
Especially this way

**Rural Surin** · 22-08-2012, 08:59 PM

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Originally Posted by alitongkat

but beating a sleeping man to death is murder...

Yes, so what. If this man got his thrills by beating the crap out of his wife then beating him to death, while murder, or at least homicide, is also, IMO, justified. Why is the sleeping part so important anyway? Perhaps you think the child should have challenged him to a duel?

Justifiable homocide.

**alitongkat** · 22-08-2012, 09:05 PM

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Originally Posted by alitongkat

but beating a sleeping man to death is murder...

Yes, so what. If this man got his thrills by beating the crap out of his wife then beating him to death, while murder, or at least homicide, is also, IMO, justified. Why is the sleeping part so important anyway? Perhaps you think the child should have challenged him to a duel?

Justifiable homocide.

a sleeping person two times with an ax in the head is NO homicide...

the whole story could be made up too...

**DrB0b** · 22-08-2012, 09:11 PM

Originally Posted by monsoonmills

Nobody deserves to die

And yet they all do.

Originally Posted by alitongkat

a sleeping person two times with an ax in the head is NO homicide...

If they're killed it IS homicide. Go check a dictionary.

**RamboII** · 22-08-2012, 09:16 PM

Its a good thing my 18 year old step son doesn't read about thai news.

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