CALGARY- The off-duty Thai police officer who gunned down a Calgary tourist has been sentenced to nearly four decades behind bars.
24-year-old Leo Del Pinto was shot and killed while backpacking in Pai, Thailand on January 6, 2008. His friend—a woman from B.C.—was also shot, bur survived.
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The officer who shot Del Pinto maintained it was self-defence, but evidence revealed there appeared to be a deliberate cover-up. The head of the police department was accused of persuading witnesses to say that his officer was being threatened.
He changed his plea to guilty earlier this summer, and has since been sentenced to 37 and a half years in prison.
That sentence is being added to the 25 years he’s already serving for killing his pregnant wife.
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