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[Janer]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/northernire...objectid=18129502&siteid=94762-name_page.html

 

[Kid Lovebeach]

"But then it went quiet. Then I went round the back and saw Mr Denis jump out of a second-floor window, on to a Yahama motorcycle and drive off."

slick bastard.

 

[pete]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial] UPON first hearing that a middle-aged Irish taxi driver had been arrested in Thailand for the brutal murder of a young prostitute, I guessed it had probably happened in Pattaya - or possibly Phuket.

Sure, there's an abundance of both prostitutes and middle-aged Irishmen scattered throughout the Land of Smiles, but they're especially concentrated in those two locations. It turned out to be Pattaya.

Last Sunday night, 40-year-old Denis Leahy - a former Irish Army soldier and occasional Dublin cabby - viciously killed 24-year-old prostitute Bupha Thanyachiangphin at the apartment he shared with his Thai girlfriend. Initial reports stated that he'd tied her up and then stabbed her 20 times in the back.
Leahy immediately fled, but was arrested the following day en route to the Cambodian border after his taxi driver recognised him from the news bulletins and sneakily arranged to meet the police at a petrol station (there's obviously less honour among cabbies than among thieves).

Reportedly, he's already confessed his guilt. Speaking to journalists from a crowded Pattaya cell on Wednesday, Leahy explained that earlier that fateful morning he'd had a row with his Thai girlfriend, Khun Janyar - who worked at a local fish market - and had brought Bupha home to make her jealous. He said the plastic ties on Bupha's wrists were a bondage experiment gone wrong, and he claimed he hadn't stabbed her 20 times - only five. However many times it was, it was enough. Bupha's dead and, as realisation sinks in, Leahy probably wishes he were too. Yet another paradise lost.

Situated 150km southeast of Bangkok, Pattaya is Thailand's busiest beach resort, attracting well upwards of a million visitors each year. Most of these are package tourists from Europe, Japan, Russia and the Middle East.

The one-time fishing village first became a resort when US GIs from a base in nearby Nakhon Ratchasima began visiting in 1959, seeking R and R. Pattaya has since grown into a large coastal city. Its three biggest tourist attractions are watersports, golf and, inevitably, sex.
It's a full-on place, a sensory overload. I spent 10 days in Pattaya last December and was routinely amazed at the scale of the decadence. Truly the place was a Disneyland for adults.

It's extremely difficult not to pick up a woman in Pattaya. The whores actually heckle you as you walk past. Regardless of race, face or age, the girls throw themselves at farangs (foreigners). Many stick. Walking along the lengthy promenade, it's not uncommon to see elderly men walking arm-in-arm with beautiful teenage girls.
With everyone swimming in such shallow romantic waters, jealousy is extremely common. One night I almost got a Zimmer frame in the head for giving a light to some enraged German pensioner's girlfriend.

Usually, though, the jealousy is all the Thai women's. Midway through my stay there, I needed to travel to the Cambodian border to renew my visa. A bus picked me up at my hotel at 6am and then proceeded to pick up another seven passengers.
All of my fellow farang travellers were permanent resi-dents, aged between mid-40s and mid-70s. They all had beautiful young Thai girlfriends waving them off. Throughout the journey their mobiles rang incessantly as their women checked up on them. The girls were obviously all terrified that their meal ticket had just left town (in fact, it became the running misogynist joke of that trip). When we returned, they were all there waiting, sulky and needy.
Most foreign residents are converted holidaymakers. With clear skies, budget accommodation and cheap booze, food and sex available at every street corner, it's no surprise that many westerners do the maths and decide to relocate. There's a large farang population - a significant proportion of whom are middle-aged or retired European divorcees, widowers and criminals.

Official figures aren't available but, from my own time there, I would estimate that there are certainly several hundred permanent Irish residents. Some of these are legitimate businessmen and entrepreneurs. Others are on the run. Sometimes just from a drab life back home. But there are tens of thousands of Irish sex tourists, holidaymakers and golf enthusiasts visiting every year.

I met an ex-soldier who'd come there on holiday with his soon-to-be-ex-wife. They'd had a row and he'd gone off on his own one night. He eventually came back a month later, and then only to divorce her, sell the house and assets, and return to Thailand.

He spent the first six months in Pattaya enjoying nightly four-in-a-bed romps with bar girls and ladyboys. Eventually his liver almost packed it in, so he began taking it easy - three-in-the-bed romps. He was on an army pension that could support this lifestyle indefinitely.
When I politely put it to him that he appeared to have something of a death wish, he didn't disagree. "We're here for a good time - not for a long time," he laughed.
He wasn't alone in this atti-

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'The whores actually heckle you as you walk past. Regardless of race, face or age, the girls throw themselves at farangs (foreigners). Many stick'

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tude. Some people are just partying until the money's gone. The suicide rate among farangs is high. When their cash -flow dries up, many of these guys suddenly realise that their teenaged Thai partner was only after one thing. And it wasn't their Viagra.

When their "swee-har" promised that they were going to "love you long tam", they were just quoting a line from a movie.
Often these men have burnt all bridges with family and friends back home. Besides, the thought of returning to some grey existence in Europe after an extended period of life in a hedonistic paradise is too much. From king to serf in just one flight. Many opt for a far briefer flight from their high-rise balcony instead.
Of course, not all Pattaya stories end in tragedy; many expats love living there. But if you've an appetite for destruction, all the ingredients are readily available.
One of a family of eight children from Dublin's inner city, Denis Leahy had served with the Army from 1985 to 1988. Unemployed and on the dole throughout most of the Nineties, he emigrated to Thailand and had been living in Pattaya since 2004 (though he occasionally returned to Ireland to work as a cab driver).
He's apparently already confessed and will reportedly plead guilty to a manslaughter charge. Unfortunately for him, his case has attracted much international media attention so there's now zero prospect of a police pay-off. The September coup may complicate things, but, if he's very lucky, he'll escape the death penalty and get a life sentence. A life of no life.

Irishman Colin Martin's recent bestselling book about life in the notorious Bangkok Hilton (Bangkwang prison) was entitled Welcome to Hell. But Martin had been sentenced for killing a man. Denis Leahy killed a young Thai girl. Even if he gets life, it's unlikely he'll ever get a chance to write a book about it.

"I don't know what came over me - but I know what's coming," he told reporters last week. "They are going to screw me to a wall."
Olaf Tyaransen
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from the sunday independent, 3rd december 2006

 

[pete]

some local insight.....

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=93463

 

[Janer]

from the sunday independent, 3rd december 2006

Ya I am regged with unison and read it this morning and seen the pic.

I knew this guy well, he was into Punk for awhile and he worked with me for awhile, knew him on and off for like 20 years, only found this out yesterday of another friend who was a close friend of his.

 

[Lefty Frizzell]

Ya I am regged with unison and read it this morning and seen the pic.

I knew this guy well, he was into Punk for awhile and he worked with me for awhile, knew him on and off for like 20 years, only found this out yesterday of another friend who was a close friend of his.

I'd stay away from him in future Janer. He sounds like trouble.

 

[Diddles]

That's mad, Janer. Did you ever think him capable of this kind of thing?

 

[Janer]

Well Lefty that story has being overshadowed by

















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[Janer]

That's mad, Janer. Did you ever think him capable of this kind of thing?

Well lol If it was rape or something like sexual kinda, the murder not really but the circumstances sorta make it like ya I guess so.
Donno how the fuck I missed this story the 1st time round.

 

[Janer]

 

[Lefty Frizzell]

He looks harmless. Shocking stuff though Janer.

How come Gary Glitter only gets 18 months and this guy faces the death penalty?

 

[Squiggle]

You mean aside from the fact that he stabbed the woman 20 times in the back?

Castration would be a good start to sorting out the likes of Gary Glitter. They should employ that surgeon who can't afford to pay out the compensation... he seems to be ideally qualified.

This is the guy I mean http://www.thumped.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=45535#post698715

 

[Janer]

They should employ that surgeon who can't afford to pay out the compensation... he seems to be ideally qualified.

rofl