International Marriages - A Case Study

[Mulboyne]

LSE: Teacher who chopped up wife gets five years

Monday, 25th July 2005 - A language teacher who killed his wife then chopped her body into nine pieces and put it in the freezer was jailed for five years today. Paul Dalton, 35, killed wife Tae Hui Kang with a single punch before dismembering her and storing her in the freezer. He then fled the country, leaving his father to discover the corpse. The punch had shattered the jaw of his Korean wife in two places, but rather than help her Dalton left her to drown in her own blood. He set about disposing of the body, buying a deep freeze from Currys and an electric saw from Argos. He dismembered her corpse into nine pieces and stored it in the freezer at their home in Kingston-upon-Thames, south-west London. He had planned to dump the body, taking trips to see if he could find a suitable stop on the south coast or along the Thames. But Dalton abandoned that plan and instead flew to Japan.
...Jailing him for two years for manslaughter and three consecutively for preventing a burial, Mr Justice Gross said: "You lashed out at your wife in the course of an argument, after no little taunting on her. The blow was spontaneous and you didn't intent to kill or cause really serious injury. You struck her with one punch but it was a blow of sufficient force to fracture her jaw in two places. She fell backwards and struck her head. You didn't seek to assist her. Subsequently you cut up your wife's body into nine parts and placed them in a freezer bought after the death for that purpose. You contemplated disposing of the body parts but in the event didn't do so - you fled to Japan. Your counsel described your conduct after the killing as horrific, strange, misleading and wrong. That is as moderate a summary of your conduct as could be put.
...[T]he pair had married in the late 1990s and gone on to set up a succesful language school in Kingston. Although ostensibly successful the pair had their troubles, with the teacher's mother observing that the 38-year old wife treated him "like a slave"...Dalton, a mild mannered tee-totaller...admitted cutting up Tae Hui, but denied murder, claiming his marriage to Tae Hui was an impossible one. He...told the jury how her behaviour had driven him to distraction. He told how she was dominating and obsessive and treated him like a slave. She kept all the money from the business school and would order him around. Giving evidence, he said: "She always got what she wanted. Everyone was scared of her." He said that he only married her because she said she was pregnant by him and needed a visa. But after the marriage she revealed that she had lost the child...more and more...

[Big Booger]

one word could have saved that wacko a lot of time:

DIVORCE....

I don't get it. If she was so evil, why in the hell didn't he just dump her?

I would have.

[Watcher]

That sentence is far too lean. I can understand how abused spouses can be driven to distraction and be beaten up mentally.. Divorce would have been good. A punch is a bit much but the chopping her up bit is just disturbing. Seriously... the dude chopped her up and put her in a freezer. What goes through the mind of someone about to take that first chop? Do you think they start to think alternatively? Do they become some rage-filled and violent they can't stop? I guess that kind of act is like smoking... you know you shouldn't but once you do you can't stop. However, would you want this guy to live next door to you? Who knows what else he might do if provoked.
BTW... IIMO, not dumping the body is just more evidence of a deranged, deluded, disconsolant fool.

[Greji]

I don't get it. If she was so evil, why in the hell didn't he just dump her?

He did just that and that was the problem. He dumped her (in the Thames, several back alleys, the neighbor's back yard and various other places.

The guy obviously did not have enough experience in the exotic far east and also in handling rice cookers! This is evidenced by his use of the number nine. In the orient, the number nine is considered unlucky for slicing up and/or dismembering wives and girl friends. The correct number should have been an even number and selected from the positioning of the stars, moon in the east, with respect to wind direction.

Off with his head!

[Scott]

He didn't drink, and let his wife run his life. P****-whipped doesn't begin to describe his problems.

Forget the divorce, he should have spent time at the pub and dealt with it like other married folks.

[AssKissinger]

I wonder if her pussy is ok. I mean, she doesn't need it anymore.

[kurohinge1]

I wonder if her pussy is ok. I mean, she doesn't need it anymore.

It's all yours AK - someone needs to feed it.

[Mennon]

I wonder if her pussy is ok. I mean, she doesn't need it anymore.

That is some funny shit.
Seriously though, it wouldn't be ok. It would be cold, and I imagine that after it thawed out it was break down pretty quickly.

[Mulboyne]

I'm still curious as to why he gave up looking for a place to dump the body and decided to fly to Japan.

[Greji]

I'm still curious as to why he gave up looking for a place to dump the body and decided to fly to Japan.

He was looking for sympathetic ears on the bad points of Koreans!

[Greji]

I wonder if her pussy is ok. I mean, she doesn't need it anymore.

Why don't you email them. They could send it to you by takyubin cold pack!

[Mulboyne]

Time for this again...

[Greji]

I wonder if her pussy is ok. I mean, she doesn't need it anymore.

If they won't send it over to you, you might want to check out this cold storage site to see if there are any spare parts you might want to order.

[jingai]

For that I'm going to give you a hand.

[torasan]

I think this explains it all: his brain was on fire. Sad story.

QUOTE:

And explaining his decision to dismember her he said: "I had to do something.

"I moved her to the front room. I cut her up in the front room. I wouldn't say I took a great deal of care. It seems totally insane, looking back on it.

"I was really trying desperately to hide what had happened. I thought it would just give me some time to think about what to do.

"My brain was on fire."

[Somerandomgaijin]

What the Brit did was wrong.
However, she probably gave him the typical crap that most of us get from our wives/signicant other ala Korean style.
He on the other hand was probably a good man, and did his best as a husband. For as long as he could, until he SNAPPED!
So he accidentally killed her, could happen to anyone.
But where does the impetus to hack her up, and put her in cold storage come from? I know his brain was on fire and all but WHAT THE HELL WAS HE THINKING.
Maybe he is the victim of poor network programming, and was subject to too many RAMEN SHOWS.

Random

[Buraku]

I'm still curious as to why he gave up looking for a place to dump the body and decided to fly to Japan.

He was looking for sympathetic ears on the bad points of Koreans!

GANBARIMASU!!!