PATTAYA - A Thai court on Tuesday sentenced an Australian man to death for murdering a Hells Angels gang member in 2015, a lawyer at the trial said. Australian Antonio Bagnato, 28, and US national Tyler Gerard, 22, were arrested after police found the battered body of Wayne Schneider in a shallow grave. Bagnato was sentenced to death by a court in the resort city of Pattaya for detaining, assaulting and then killing the victim, Gerard's lawyer told Reuters. Gerard was jailed for two years as an accomplice to the crime, said the lawyer, Phipat Chantakul. Gerard's sentence was reduced from an original three years because he had cooperated with the investigation, his lawyer said.

Source: Bangkok Post February 07, 2017 12:20 UTC