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Klong Prem prison commander transferred over Joe Ferrari’s death

  THE Corrections Department today (March 12) transferred the acting commander of Klong Prem Central Prison back to his previous duty with the department’s deputy director-general moving in to take charge while investigation of the death of Pol. Col. Thitisan Uttanaphon, aka Superintendent Joe Ferrari, who was found hanged with a towel in a cell […]

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Prison guard chief transferred over Joe Ferrari’s death

  THE chief guard of the Klong Prem Central Prison zone where Pol. Col. Thitisan Uttanaphon, aka Superintendent Joe Ferrari, was found hanged with a towel on Friday night has been transferred to the general administration department, Naewna newspaper said this afternoon (March 10). Mr. Phedchet Hringrot, director of Central Correctional Institution for Drug Addicts, […]

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Minister to probe Joe Ferrari being found hanged in prison

  JUSTICE Minister Thavi Sodsong said an investigation of the death of Pol. Col. Thitisan Uttanaphon, aka Superintendent Joe Ferrari, who had been jailed for life for intentionally torturing a drug suspect to death with two plastic bags and was found hanged at Klong Prem Central Prison would be undertaken, Thai Rath newspaper said today […]

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British man found hanged after quarrelling with girlfriend

  A BRITISH MAN was found hanged at a luxury condominium near Bang Saray beach, Chonburi, after quarrelling with his Thai girlfriend, Naewna newspaper said today (May 28). Late last night Pol. Lt. Col.  Pattananan Somanwan, an inspector at Sattahip police station, was informed of a foreign man being found dead at this condominium and […]

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Young foreign man found hanged at Koh Samui

  THE BODY of a young Ukrainian man was found mysteriously hanged with his hands tied behind his back at a remote durian orchard on Koh Samui last evening, Amarin TV said this morning (Jan. 25). Pol. Col. Denduang Thongsrisuk, superintendent of Bo Phut police station, and his team together with forensic officers, a doctor […]

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‘Big Joke’: Foreigner in girlfriend’s death on watchlist

  DEPUTY National Police Chief Pol. Lt. Gen. Surachate Hakparn, whose nickname is Big Joke, said after meeting the brother of a Thai woman found hanged in Phuket last week that her Canadian boyfriend has been placed on watchlist, Matichon newspaper said this afternoon (Feb. 13). Mr. Ekapop Leangprasert, one of the operators of Sai […]

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Brother suspects foreigner was linked to sister’s death

  THE BROTHER of a Thai woman found hanged in Phuket is moving for an investigation after some suspicion arose while accusing her Canadian boyfriend of possibly being linked to her death, TV Channel 7 said today (Feb. 18). The unidentified brother of Ms. Wanvisa, 31, who died last Wednesday Feb. 8 at a nail […]

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Myanmar executes four democracy activists, drawing condemnation and outrage

By Reuters and published by CNA MYANMAR’S military junta today (July 25) said it had executed four democracy activists accused of helping to carry out “terror acts” in the Southeast Asian nation’s first executions in decades, sparking widespread condemnation. Sentenced to death in closed-door trials in January and April, the four men had been accused […]

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Neighbours shocked to see foreigner hanged at balcony

PANICK spread throughout an alley in Pattaya yesterday afternoon (July 22) after the hanged body of a foreigner was clearly seen dangling out on the balcony of his second floor apartment, Sanook.com reported this morning. Pol.Lt.Col. Natthawat Ploenchit, head of investigation at Pattaya City police station, rushed to the four-storey apartment building in Soi Photisan […]

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