No death penalty for Thai tribesman who killed city teacher

A Thai tribesman has escaped the death penalty for the murder of a popular Scots schoolteacher.

David Crisp, 56, from Lasswade in Midlothian, was found bludgeoned to death with his throat cut in the northern city of Chiang Mai two years ago.

The only man to face trial for the killing, 23-year-old Akha Hill tribesman Awoei Yaepiang, had his death sentence reduced to life imprisonment yesterday.

He was saved from lethal injection by an early guilty plea.