He'll be out and about in a couple of years. Seems like they cut a deal with the scumbag to close the case and please the tourism operators/embassy. Happens all the time. A friend told me last week that the Thai cop who murdered the British couple in Kanchanaburi a couple of years back is now released from prison. Apparantly there was a photo of him in one of the Thai newspapers, sitting at a table drinking & laughing with his cop mates.