Australia man sentenced to death over Hell's Angel member's murder
Antonio Bagnato has been found guilty of murdering a bikie associate and sentenced to death in Thailand - but will likely never face the firing squad or be given the lethal injection.
On Tuesday, the 28-year-old Australian was charged with abducting and killing Wayne Rodney Schneider at a luxury villa in the seaside resort of Pattaya in 2015.
The mangled body of the Hell's Angels biker gang member was later found naked and with a broken neck after being buried in a shallow grave by the side of a road.
Thailand rarely carries out the death penalty, with the latest figures indicating there were 649 prisoners under sentence of death at the beginning of 2015.
In 2003 the country changed its official method of execution from the firing squad to lethal injection, and its last execution was carried out on two convicted meth traffickers almost a decade ago in 2009.
Bagnato, Mr Schneider's former body guard and business associate, was arrested in Cambodia's capital city Pnomh Penh in December 2015.
He was flown to a military base where he was interrogated and charged. It's unclear whether he was flown back to the same military base, or escorted to one of Thailand's many jails.
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