Daw screamed at police and
witnesses, saying that Hollick had started the fight and that Ringvall was
defending himself.
Boonlua Chatree
A New Zealand man’s love of animals cost him his life
when he was stabbed in a Pattaya bar fight about his dog.
Robert E. Hollick, 43, suffered three stab wounds to the
neck in the after-midnight brawl at a Soi Diana beer bar near the Areca
Hotel. Bystanders apprehended Swede Andreas Ringvall, who they said stabbed
the heavily tattooed Kiwi after two arguments over a dog Hollick brought
into the bar.
Drunk and bloody, Ringvall’s girlfriend, Daw Pholutsa,
26, screamed at police and witnesses that Hollick had started the fight and
that the 40-year-old had only been defending himself. She was also arrested
on conspiracy of murder charges.
Motorcycle taxi driver Muan Samat, 34, told police he
witnessed Hollick coming into the bar and chatting with the drunk
Swedish-Thai couple. Things were fine, he said, until Daw started to play
with the dog. Ringvall got angry and his words set off a fight between the
two men.
Daw pulled Ringvall away and presumably back to their
hotel, but the Swede returned with a knife, started to argue again and then
stabbed the New Zealander, Samat said.
New Zealand media reports said Hollick had moved to
Thailand six months ago and was a devoted animal lover who took his dog
everywhere he went.
The center of the argument -
Hollick’s dog.
