Crazy, tragic, and weird story out of the UK, where a man has been found guilty of murder for strangling his wife after she smashed up his collection of Star Wars toys: Wife strangled after smashing up husband's Star Wars toys.30-year-old Rickie La Touche reportedly killed his wife Pornpilai Srisroy, who was from Thailand, after a massive fight in which she damaged his Star Wars memorabilia and threatened to leave him. That apparently sent him off. La Touche claims that he "flipped":
Rickie La Touche, 30, claimed that Pornpilai Srisroy, 28, damaged the Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker memorabilia that he had built up since he was child.This sounds like it was a pretty odd relationship to begin with. Stop me if you've heard this one before: lonely loser meets his true love in a Bangkok bar. They get married. This was not going to end well, and it ended in tragedy.
During a subsequent row, he suffocated his wife then ran off sobbing to his mother who lived in a nearby street.
A relative discovered Ms Pornpilai lying dead on the couple's double bed covered by a duvet with a pillow over her face.
La Touche later told police that his wife had smashed up his Star Wars collection as part of a campaign to make his life "hell".
He claimed he was a henpecked husband who "flipped" after she threatened to leave him to go back to her native Thailand.
As for the Star Wars toys, she got him where it hurt the most -- his geek shrine. This was not a healthy relationship, on every level. More here: Star Wars fanatic choked his Thai bride to death after she destroyed his collection of toys.