THAI LAW - A woman scorned
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Thai law | There was a case a
while ago where a foreigner, after moving to Thailand, struck up a relationship
with a Thai girl. The couple stayed
together for many years and life was good.
However the foreigner never actually married the Thai girl. He was independently rich and owned a lot of
property on the form of houses, cars and motorcycles, all in his name. The Thai girl received an allowance from him
every month of 10 to 20 thousand baht. But
all was not well and the foreigner got into serious trouble.
They had been
together for 8 years when things started to turn sour. Constant fights broke out and
misunderstandings which led the foreigner to kick the girl out of his house and
sying he didn’t want to see her again.
She couldn’t return as he had also locked her out. The Thai girl was not very happy, to say the
least. Her clothes and possessions were
in the house and she wanted them back.
She tried several times to break into the house to no avail. She finally managed to break in by jumping
over a fence and breaking a lock.
Following the removal of her possessions, she had a face to face meeting
with the foreigner who was not at all happy that she had broken into his house.
Arguments turned into a fight and the foreigner assaulted the girl.
The Thai girl didn’t
like what had happened but took no further action regarding the assault and
went about her way. A few days later,
she broke into the house again but took nothing! Everything was fine for the next few days
until the police turned up at the foreigner’s house with an warrant to search
the house. They duly carried out the
search and uncovered a stash of unregistered guns and ammunition. Despite the foreigners insistence that he
knew nothing of the weapons, the case was presented to the public
prosecutor. The foreigner was taken to
court charged with possession of unregistered weapons. This is a very serious offence under Thai law
and worse for a foreigner.
Unlike the west,
where breaking off a relationship quite amicably and each party goes their own
way, in Thailand the injured party (in this case the Thai girl) will not let it
go. After all, she lost the most having
spent a chunk of her life with the foreigner with no return. She will want some form of justice or you may
call it revenge. She created a situation
putting the foreigner in dire straits.
If you’re going to split with your partner, then try to do it in a nice
way where both parties are happy. In this case, a judgment from the court is
still pending. In the meantime, the
foreigner has had to submit huge amounts of cash for bail, had his passort
confiscated by the courts which debars him from leaving the country without the
court’s permission. Remember, if you push someone into a corner, they will
fight back.
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