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Hi Leinad,

Here are the answers to the questions in your comments:

Leinad said...

played poker with them?

Yeah, a couple of times.

tell us more here.....when?

Over the last couple of months.

under what circumstances?

Wednesday night poker.

their place or yours?

At a little bar around the corner from us run by a friend of ours.

any chance he is pathological liar, living in fantasy alkie fueled world?

I couldn't really tell you whether he was a pathological liar, but he did seem very keen on poker, not really in a fun way. Seemed very keen on staying strictly to the rules.

He is a self confessed hard-core alcoholic. I was told by someone who knew him well that he would start the day with one of those long neck Taiwan Beers and read the paper before setting off to work.

On the night of the murder it is alleged that he was passed out on the couch in a booze induced coma in the living room while his missus stabbed Anita to death with a knife in the kitchen. This is all speculation and hearsay however.

is it also true, she controlled him, abused him physically and mentally, and he put up with it for alchohol tips?

She did seem like a very strong woman, but very amenable and small. It is hard to believe that she kept the body in the house for two days before dumping it without him knowing. At the same time those alco types can be easily manipulated. I guess we will never know.

dish, man, dish! this is trial of the century!

She has confessed and he claims not to know anything about it, so I will give him the benefit of the doubt. Regardless, it spells the end of his time in Taiwan. I'm sure no one will give him a job now and he is even less likely to get an ARC or work permit.

This case has larger implications for the rest of us however. Foreigners in Taiwan are branded by the locals as foul-smelling, alcoholic perverts, only here to abuse their culture, ignore their road laws, vomit on the side walks and do unspeakable thing to their women.

For the most part, this is fairly accurate stereotype from their point of view.

Now we have to deal with the stigma of being murders as well.

I think it is the responsibility of all expats to make an extra effort to treat the local population with the utmost courtesy and respect to restore our standing from murderers to plain old alco perverts.