KEY POINTS:
A clothes shop owner and a policeman at Lae in Papua New Guinea turned a dry cleaning steamer on a young trouser thief to teach him crime doesn't pay.
Police released him with burns and scalding to his abdomen, chest and back.
A clothes shop owner and a policeman at Lae in Papua New Guinea turned a dry cleaning steamer on a young trouser thief to teach him crime doesn't pay.
Police released him with burns and scalding to his abdomen, chest and back.
The six-year timeline that has culminated in today's tragedy.