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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/teachers-killer-spared-execution.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A Thai tribesman has escaped the death penalty after murdering Scottish schoolteacher David Crisp" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-teachers-killer-spared-execution.jpg" alt="A Thai tribesman has escaped the death penalty after murdering Scottish schoolteacher David Crisp"/></a></p>
<p>A Thai tribesman has escaped the death penalty for the murder of a popular Scots schoolteacher.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The only man to face trial for the killing, 23-year-old Akha Hill tribesman Awoei Yaepiang, has had his death sentence reduced to life imprisonment.</p>
<p>He was saved from lethal injection by an early guilty plea.</p>
<p>The sentence marks the end of a two-year ordeal for Mr Crisp&#8217;s brother Andy and his wife Susan, who have had to endure court wrangles and innuendo about the former Lasswade High School teacher&#8217;s private life.</p>
<p>Mrs Crisp, who has said previously that the death penalty was justified for pre-meditated killing, nevertheless hailed Awoei&#8217;s life sentence.</p>
<p>She said: &#8220;It&#8217;s longer than he would have got here. We&#8217;re just glad it&#8217;s over now and we can get closure. Every time someone comes on the phone and mentions David&#8217;s name it brings it all back.</p>
<p>&#8220;We hope that the sentence will bring an end to the matter, particularly after some of the nonsense that was printed about him in some sections of the press. Unless you&#8217;ve gone through it yourself, you cannot know how difficult it is. We can mourn David now the way he should have been mourned.&#8221;</p>
<p>After the killing. Awoei was paraded before the press in Thailand, where he demonstrated how he slit Mr Crisp&#8217;s throat before bludgeoning him repeatedly with a teak vase.</p>
<p>He and his accomplices then raided Mr Crisp&#8217;s possessions, including cash stolen from a safe, before making off in his car.</p>
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