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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Well, yeah, but he had to go to Thailand to pull that off.
He ‘suffocated her’, the article says. Did he use the Jedi choke to do it, ala Admiral Piett?
haha. Exactly! As a wife I would have to agree with you with no sarc. lol. Poor wifey was jealous. Women need to realize though when they marry a man sometimes an inanimate object competes for attention with him. That’s just a fact of marriage. At least it wasn’t porn. Just the beautiful soft lines of R2S2 and Chewy. :).
haha. :)
Bet she won’t do that again.
Beware the dark side of the Force!
Needless to say wifey in this article was disappointed, but was clearly as immature as he was sadly.
Well, he did meet her in a bar in Thailand so it's a good bet she had an entirely different idea of what he was talking about when he wanted to get married and spend all day every weekend dressing up in costumes and "playing with his light saber"
R2D2. I mean. Guess she wasn’t feelin’ the force.
Darth Vader:
Where is Padme? Is she safe? Is she all right?
Darth Sidious:
It seems in your anger... you killed her.
Darth Vader:
I... I couldn’t have! She was alive; I felt it... I... Nooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!
And put back school prayer, amen!
She should have done what I did and sold them on Ebay — I still feel a little guilty about that, but he’s 44 now and said he doesn’t play with them any more ... I kind of miss them, to be honest. They were pretty cool.
Yeah, to someone he met in a bar in Bangkok. That was probably the only you know what he ever got.
This world is so upside down these days. One husband gets drugged by his wife so she can cut off his penis, and she’s still walking around to the delight of the feminist talkshow hosts. Another husband has his Star Wars toys smashed, and he suffocates the *****. I think those two guys need to trade world views.
If he’s lucky he’ll get a jury like Robert Blake did, that may consider whether she deserved it.
“He had also told detectives he was worried she was about to leave him.”
He found her lack of faith disturbing.
Apology accepted, Captain Needa.
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