Ernie del Pinto
Cold shouldered by the Canucks over the Petit Fours
PLUS – FATHER OF MURDERED CANADIAN LENDS SUPPORT TO FLYING SPORRAN The Flying Sporran’s Midweek Diary A bit of a gruelling week last week. Flew up to Chiang Mai for CBC to cover the verdict and judgement on the policeman accused of murdering backpacker Leo del Pinto in Pai, Mae Hong Son in 2008 while […]
EXCLUSIVE: BEHIND THE PAI MURDER – THE LIES AND THREATS – UPDATED WITH VIDEO
FATHER FINALLY GETS SOME CLOSURE AFTER A REMARKABLE INVESTIGATION BRITISH JOURNALIST COMMENDED BY THAILAND’S HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONER Sergeant Uthai Dechachiwat never even glanced as the father of Canadian backpacker Leo del Pinto as they sat on parallel benches two metres apart at Chiang Mai Provincial Court. Five years eight months after Uthai gunned down 25-year-old […]
High Noon in Thailand – Parents of victims of crime fly in to seek closure.
Ernie on Canada TV SATISFACTION SOUGHT. The parents of two victims of crimes in Thailand will fly into Bangkok in nine days’ time as the trial of one accused gets under way and a second one comes to an end. Ernie del Pinto, father of Leo del Pinto, is flying in for the sentencing of […]
FIVE YEARS ON THAI POLICEMAN ADMITS MURDER-
BUT FATHER WAS PUT THROUGH HELL! Five years and five months after his son was gunned down by a Thai policeman in the northern hill tribe town of Pai – the policeman who shot him has admitted to murder. After putting the father of Canadian Leo del Pinto through ‘hell’ Police Sergeant Uthai Dechawiwat has […]
