Swede's Death Sentence Commuted to Life for Phuket Murder
By Chutima Sidasathian

Monday, March 3, 2014
PHUKET: Swede Tommy Viktor Soderlund was sentenced to death for murder before a Phuket judge commuted the term to life imprisonment today.

The judge commuted the sentence because Soderlund had been responsive and cooperative in explaining what transpired in the case.

Soderlund was also sentenced to nine years in jail for theft of a motorcycle. He and Ljung stole the motorcycle at gunpoint as they fled the scene of Schantz's knifing in Phuket City.