Why Did This Happen In This Enlightened Society?

[youngmafbog]

http://news.sky.com/story/1241018/bank-worker-incinerated-murdered-wifes-body

Why not just 'come out' and get on with life? Now a life is lost and a another is wrecked.

[andy-hughes]

youngmafbog - in a number of Asian cultures, homosexuality can lead to being ostrracised from family and from society as a whole.

Such is the ingrained hatred of homosexuality, that this man probably thought that murder was an easier option that admiting his orientation - a sad inditement on the culture in which he was raised.

[emmie]

because some societies can't handle it, some religions ignore it, or hate it, and openly condemn gays, its mad, but its a mad world, another life lost.

[emmie]

i wouldn't give a monkeys about him, he could have chosen a way that suited, instead he chose this, i hope he rots.

[whirlyhurly]

It's all about "family honour".

[emmie]

botox to family honour, he should never have got married.

[Peter Pedant]

Pressure to get married can be VERY strong

[emmie]

that might be so, but if it costs women's lives then they should think long and hard.

[ludwig]

We all know he's gay now, whereas before he murdered someone we didn't.

Stupid plan.

[Svejk]

doubt he was gay. just a way of garnering sympathy from the pc brigade. seems to be working already.

[EDDIE51]

It says he only got married to avoid suspision that he was gay.
We may be an 'elightened' society but the society he was part of does not share our enlightenment.

[anotheoldgit]

He may have been pressurised into getting married, but why didn't he later just separate from his wife, there was no need for him to murder her, least of all try and depose of her body by burning, didn't he think that people would want to know where she was?