BANGKOK – A Thai citizen has been sentenced to death and two Germans received life sentences for the gruesome murder of a German real estate agent near the resort town of Pattaya.
The Pattaya Provincial Court on December 20 handed down the death sentence to Shahrukh Karim Uddin, a Thai of Pakistani descent, for the murder of Mr. Peter Ralter Mack, 62, in July 2023, the Bangkok Post newspaper reported.
Mr Mack's dismembered body was found in a freezer covered with a thick layer of tape at a house in a suburb of Pattaya in southern Thailand's Chonburi province.
German nationals Olaf Thorsten Brinkmann and Petra Christl Grundgreif confessed to the crime during the trial and their sentences were subsequently reduced from the death penalty to life imprisonment.
All three defendants were found guilty of first-degree murder and concealing a corpse.
Mr Mack disappeared after telling his wife he was meeting another real estate agent, although his family later believed he had been lured away and kidnapped.
The court heard evidence that the group planned to dispose of Mr Mack's body at sea and transferred 3.35 million baht (S$132,000) from his account. AFP
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