Two get life in jail in road rage killing over a smashed glass bottle
THE Court of First Instance in Trat province today (August 3) sentenced two defendants to life imprisonment and the third one to six years and eight months in jail for killing a man by backing their pick-up truck and hitting him twice and also severely beating him up after mistakenly believing that he had […]
Read MoreDetained teen gangsters say it was revenge killing
TWO members of a teen gang who shot dead another teenager on Rama 2 road before dawn yesterday (Mar. 19) have confessed to police that they chased and killed him to avenge his having allegedly beaten up their younger friends, Sanook.com said this afternoon (Mar. 20). However Pol. Col. Lertsak Khiamsub, head of Tha […]
Read MoreSoldier kills wife then himself while getting divorced
A YOUNG soldier who had gone from Bangkok to Sisaket province to divorce his wife ended up firing eight shots at her in her pickup truck and then a little later shot himself dead at the City Pillar shrine, Thai Rath newspaper said today (Dec. 9). At 10.45 a.m.Pol. Col. Narin Bupta, superintendent of […]
Read MoreMinister blasted over wild elephants killing villagers
By Thai Newsroom Reporters NATURAL RESOURCES & ENVIRONMENT Minister Varawut Silpa-archa today (Nov. 10) came under fire for allegedly failing to protect villagers from being killed or injured by wild elephants. The House Extraordinary Committee for Wild Elephants took the natural resources & environment minister to task at parliament in the face of last […]
Read MoreVictim’s mum, girlfriend quizzed again in Joe Ferrari case
PROSECUTORS today (Aug. 30) questioned the mother and girlfriend of the drug suspect who died after being suffocated with two plastic bags with this taking place just as an autopsy report stated that the cause of death was asphyxiation and not drug abuse, Amarin TV said this evening. Pol. Col. Thitisan Uttanaphon, aka Superintendent […]
Read MoreEx-conscript who killed Covid patient, store worker arrested
A FORMER army conscript who shot dead a convenience store worker then barged into a field hospital in Pathum Thani province and killed a Covid-19 patient before heading south in a white pickup truck has been arrested at his grandmother’s house in Ranong province, Siam Rath newspaper said this afternoon (June 24). Several police […]
Read MoreElderly man kills mute son after 30 years of abuse
AN 83-year-old man who shot dead his mute, drug-addicted son last week after 30 years of abuse was arrested by Pathum Thani police today (June 22) on the charges of premeditated murder and unauthorized possession of a firearm and ammunition, TV Channel 7 said this evening. Pol. Maj. Gen. Chayut Manithara, head of Pathum Thani […]
Read MoreEngineer who killed a youth in double parking row escapes jail
THE Chon Buri Supreme Court today (June 17) granted a reprieve from a jail term of three years and four months to an engineer who had shot dead a youth in a row over double parking in February 2017, Sanook.com, Siam Rath and Thai Rath newspapers said. The defendant, Mr. Suthep Phochonsomboon, 56, or […]
Read MoreSuspect says he killed doctor after hospital made him pay 130 not 30 baht
A YOUNG man who was arrested at a hotel in Samut Songkhram province on the charges of killing the director of King Mongkut Memorial Hospital at his clinic in Phetchaburi city yesterday has confessed that he did so because he was high on drugs and was displeased that the hospital had charged him 130 and […]
Read MoreEx-wife arrested for killing former husband’s new girlfriend
THE WOMAN who shot dead her former husband’s new girlfriend and also injured him in Lampang province early Sunday morning has now been arrested and has confessed to the crime, Sanook.com reported this afternoon (Oct. 14, 2020). Ms. Niranuch Okwang, 50, was arrested in neighbouring Phayao province after an informer told police that he saw […]
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