Two others have been sentenced to death for the 2023 murder and dismemberment of a European business.
PUBLISHED: 21 Dec 2024 at 14: 12
The death of a European home broker, whose dismembered body was discovered in a freezer in Pattaya last year, resulted in the death of one Outlaws Motorcycle Club member and the sentence of two others to life in prison.
The Pattaya Provincial Court immediately sentenced all three plaintiffs to death on Friday for the death of Hans Peter Walter Mack, 62, in July of last year. The murder shocked the populace and caused national media coverage.
As two of them confessed, the judge commuted their words to life prison.
On July 10, 2013, detectives who had been looking for leads based on security camera footage discovered Mack’s mutilated body in a refrigerator at a home in the tambon Nong Prue region of Bang Lamung area. Since July 4, he had not been seen by his home.
Prosecutors immediately arrested two German immigrants — Olaf Thorsten, 52, and Petra Christl Grundgreif, 54 — and a Muslim man holding Thai ethnicity, Zahrouk Kareem Uddin, 27. They were accused of murder and robbery.
According to authorities, the pair had abducted Mack and murdered him before transferring 3.35 million baht from the victim’s bank accounts
During doubting, the three denied any involvement. However, the case’s handlers confirmed that they had found enough information to charge them.
After receiving the police document, they were charged with premeditated murder and concealing a body.
During the trial, Brinkmann and Ms Grundgreif, the first and subsequent accused, confessed to the crimes. As their revelations were important, the courtroom commuted their words to life imprisonment. Uddin maintained his innocence.
In a related case, the jury sentenced another European suspect, who was only identified as Enrico, to six years in prison for receiving stolen property and money laundering after he agreed to receive funds from Brinkmann in connection with the crime.