By Thai Newsroom Reporters
THE SUPREME COURT today (June 27) upheld the Appeals Court’s earlier sentencing of Banyin Tangpakorn, a former Pheu Thai MP and cabinet member, to death penalty due to a cold-blooded homicide case.
The Supreme Court ruled that Banyin had perpetrated the premeditated, covered-up murder of Chuwong Sae Tang, a millionaire construction contractor, in a crime scene which he had deliberately made to look as if it was a car accident on a road in Prawet district of Bangkok in 2015, thus handing him the death penalty.
Banyin, who had sat behind the wheel at the time of the premeditated murder with Chuwong seated next to him, suddenly rammed the car into a roadside tree, killing the unaware contractor.
The former police lieutenant colonel-turned-former MP of Nakhon Sawan and former deputy commerce minister who had categorically dismissed the homicide charges had tried in vain to commit suicide in prison after he had been arrested on homicide charges in 2020.
In 1991, he had been suspected of killing a woman in what had previously appeared to look like a car accident with himself being safe whilst riding in the vehicle. In 2020, he was arrested for alleged involvement in the murder of a judge’s brother.
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