Taxi driver sentenced to death for killing mother, child

Bangkok - A Bangkok court on Tuesday sentenced a taxi driver to death for the murder of a woman and her 5-year-old son whose body he allegedly chopped up and threw away in garbage bags.

Although Siripong Kanchananiwit, 41, pleaded guilty, the Bangkok Criminal Court refused to commute the death sentence because of the "brutality" of the murders and Siripong's efforts to hide the boy's body, court officials said.

Siripong pleaded guilty to fatally shooting Sunan Srisuwan, 38, and her son Shao Makino in his taxi on October 13.

He also injured Sunan's daughter Mint, 14, in the attack.

Siripong told police he shot Sunan in a fit of rage after she insulted his manhood.

He claimed to be having an affair with Sunan, who was married to a Japanese and had allegedly pressured Siripong to kill her first husband, a Thai. When he refused, she called him a "woman's face," sparking the fatal shooting, Siripong told police.

Police said he fired 14 bullets at the family, who was sitting in the back seat of his taxi after he had picked them up at the airport. Police were alerted to the murders after three garbage bags were found at a Bangkok garbage dump containing Shao's dismembered body.

Mint survived the shooting and attended the reading of the court's verdict Tuesday.

"He got what he deserved under Thai law," Mint told reporters after hearing the sentence.

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