xandreu wrote: ↑Tue Mar 14, 2023 1:19 pm I don't believe in the death penalty for any reason, but I don't see how anyone can say that the world is just as safe a place with him outside of prison as it is with him inside.

Not entirely sure why we can't strike up a deal with other countries to take our nonces. Countries that are not legally bound to the same human rights laws as we are, whose prisoners are aware for every one of their waking minutes of just where they are and how cruel life can be when you're just as vulnerable as the victims they preyed upon.

Stravaiger wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 9:30 am

xandreu wrote: ↑Tue Mar 14, 2023 1:19 pm I don't believe in the death penalty for any reason, but I don't see how anyone can say that the world is just as safe a place with him outside of prison as it is with him inside.

If Glitter had been convicted of child rape in Vietnam he could have been have been executed by firing squad. However the victims' families appealed on his behalf, after he paid them. He was deported from Cambodia but never prosecuted for anything here.

hanno wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 11:07 am

Stravaiger wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 9:30 am

xandreu wrote: ↑Tue Mar 14, 2023 1:19 pm I don't believe in the death penalty for any reason, but I don't see how anyone can say that the world is just as safe a place with him outside of prison as it is with him inside.

If Glitter had been convicted of child rape in Vietnam he could have been have been executed by firing squad. However the victims' families appealed on his behalf, after he paid them. He was deported from Cambodia but never prosecuted for anything here.

This was quite some time ago and details are hazy. I was working in Vietnam at the time. Pictures of him sitting in a bar with a couple of kids emerged on Vietnamese (social?) media. At that time he was supposed to be in a jail in Vietnam. Turns out he paid handsomely to not only have a private cell, better food and booze, but he was also allowed to go out on the lash.

There are many exotic spots in the world where old pop stars come, musically, to die. However, Phnom Penh, the filthy, crazy, frightening, beautiful capital of Cambodia, is not usually one of them.

And yet it is here, overlooking the mighty Mekong River in a bar with ceiling fans shifting the sticky night air that we find... well, who exactly? His name is Duncan Kilburn and he owns the bar. Cambodian women in long silk dresses are serving beer to sweaty expats and the odd backpacker who's swerved off the trail between Thailand and Vietnam. Most people between 25 and 50 will have heard of his band, the Psychedelic Furs. Ah yes. Part of the quintessential, new wave British sound of the early Eighties.

Kilburn played saxophone. Twenty years on, the balding, frayed 44-year-old has washed up in Phnom Penh of all places. He admits who he is and agrees to tell his story - and talk about Cambodia.

Stravaiger wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 1:48 pm

And yet it is here, overlooking the mighty Mekong River in a bar with ceiling fans shifting the sticky night air that we find... well, who exactly? His name is Duncan Kilburn and he owns the bar. Cambodian women in long silk dresses are serving beer to sweaty expats and the odd backpacker who's swerved off the trail between Thailand and Vietnam. Most people between 25 and 50 will have heard of his band, the Psychedelic Furs. Ah yes. Part of the quintessential, new wave British sound of the early Eighties.

Kilburn played saxophone. Twenty years on, the balding, frayed 44-year-old has washed up in Phnom Penh of all places. He admits who he is and agrees to tell his story - and talk about Cambodia.

Random Dude wrote: ↑Tue Mar 14, 2023 2:02 pm

Grand Barong wrote: ↑Tue Mar 14, 2023 1:42 pm Was hoping the thread might have contained his obituary notice.

He must be in some sort of protective custody because I'm sure the other crims would jump at the chance to kill him.

John Bingham wrote: ↑Sat Feb 04, 2023 12:37 am The worst Cambodia expat ever as far as giving this place a shitty reputation goes.

cabron wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 8:14 pm

Random Dude wrote: ↑Tue Mar 14, 2023 2:02 pm

Grand Barong wrote: ↑Tue Mar 14, 2023 1:42 pm Was hoping the thread might have contained his obituary notice.

He must be in some sort of protective custody because I'm sure the other crims would jump at the chance to kill him.

That is an old cliche, pedophiles are ok in jail, occasionally there is some violence against these villains.