Posted on 11/04/2011 7:49:34 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
A STAR Wars fan was yesterday jailed for life after murdering his wife in an alleged revenge attack for smashing up his cherished toy collection. Advertisement >>
Rickie La-Touche, 30, told a court that his Thai wife Pornpilai Srisroy, 28, had damaged his precious Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker memorabilia.
He later suffocated her during a row and then ran sobbing to his mother who lived nearby.
La-Touche later told police his wife had smashed up his Star Wars collection as part of a campaign to “make his life hell”. He also claimed he “flipped” when she threatened to leave him to go back to Thailand.
La-Touche, also known as Rickie Nehls, was found guilty of murder and was ordered to serve a minimum of 12 years.
The court heard that he met his wife in a bar while on holiday in Bangkok in 2001. He became besotted and they married on his fourth visit to Thailand in 2003.
In April the couple had a violent row one morning and he later arrived at his mother’s house in an agitated state.
When his mother asked him what was wrong, he replied he had “killed her”.
La-Touche told Preston Crown Court his wife had damaged most of his collection of Star Wars memorabilia, which he had built up since he was a child and was worth thousands of pounds.
He had also told detectives he was worried she was about to leave him. La-Touche, from Leigh, Greater Manchester, said in a police interview: “My wife is from Thailand and she keeps threatening to leave. We argued and she said she was going to make my life hell.
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lets be clear... it wasn’t a ‘toy collection’... it was a 1978 darth vadar with light saber grip!! totally had it coming
/sarc
;)
And which OWS camp is this guy hiding in?
They buried (no pun intended) the lead. The REAL story here is that a 30-year old “Star Wars” fan was married.
ROFLMAO!
when you’re married to someone who tell you they are going to make your life a living hell it is a horror
I’ve gone through it
Looking back I would gladly have given up 12 years of my life to be out of that hell
And there is your root cause...mommy has always made everything better.
“The REAL story here is that a 30-year old “Star Wars” fan was married.”
But then he reverted to type and ran home to mommy.
By "lived nearby" I assume they mean "lived upstairs."
OMG look at the picture on the website- there’s even some
Star Wars ‘action figures’ (they’re not dolls!) on the bookshelf
Great minds and all that...
Don’t touch my blue suede shoes!
Lesson here: do not, I repeat, do no mess with a man’s toys. Sounds like justifiable homicide to me.
Many of today’s young adults are so mentally dysfunctional and infantile.
We need to destroy DOE and return education to pre-John Dewey when they didn’t brainwash children into hating men and feminizing them. Put back the McGuffey Readers which teaches Virtue and Morals. Kick out the Marxist dependent cr*-p. The government schools are intentionally putting out useless idiots.
They are action figures! (Was that a 70’s Show quote?)
“Touché”, said Rickie La-Touche.
PORNpilai ? Oh, OK.
>>> “The REAL story here is that a 30-year old “Star Wars” fan was married.”
And now he is back to being Hand Solo.
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