Category: Crime
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Angry Father Shoots Man In Tesco Lotus After Warning Him To Stay Away From His Daughter
A Thai father who had repeatedly warned a man to stay away from his daughter shot at him then fired into his pick-up in the parking lot of Tesco Lotus in Nakorn Pathom yesterday. Police captain Wasan Tangtham found a lot of blood in a bakery at Lotus where U-Then had fled following the shooting.…
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Iranian In Pattaya Rape Drama Denies Everything And Claims Ex Shaved Her Own Head
The Iranian businessman charged with handcuffing and raping his ex girlfriend then shaving her head has denied everything after being interviewed by Pattaya police yesterday. Earlier “Neung”, 21, from Prajinburi, had gone to the cops to claim that she was forced onto a motorbike after the couple met in Walking Street in the early hours…
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Thai Tourist Police Begin Crackdown On 200,000 Overstayers
Thailand’s Tourist Police Chief led a big raid on a call center operation at a northern Bangkok condominium yesterday. It was as much a raid on people who have overstayed as those involved in crime. Surachet Hakpan along with 191 special branch and immigration officers raided the Ban Suan Thon condo in Ratanathibet, Nonthaburi. In…
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9 Students Convicted of Bangkok Car Bomb Plot
The Criminal Court on Tuesday found nine young men guilty of conspiring to stage car bomb attacks in the capital two years ago. All university students from the Muslim-majority south, they were given jail terms ranging from four to six years. Five suspects were acquitted. Their lawyer disputed the ruling, saying his clients were tortured…
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Bodies Of Missing British Expat And Thai Wife Discovered In Garden
The bodies of a missing British man and his Thai wife have been found buried in the garden of their home in northern Thailand. Alan Hogg, 64, from Scotland, and his Thai wife Nott Suddaen, 61, were reported missing from their home in the Phrae province on Thursday. Bloodstains were earlier found in that the…
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Police Say They Know The Ones Responsible For Disappearance Of Australian/Thai Couple
Police in the north of Thailand are in the process of obtaining warrants in the case of the missing Thai/Australian Phrae couple. They say that at least 2 or three people are involved and they know who they are. They called it a “family affair”. Nott Suddaen, 61, and Alan Hawk, now said to be…
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Hong Kong Celebrity “Confused” After One Million Baht Theft By Ladyboys On Walking Street
A Hong Kong celebrity had gone to the media early this morning after failing to get his property back after an altercation with a group of lady boys in Walking Street at 5am on Tuesday morning. The case ended up being dealt with by Pattaya police but he has been left confused after fines were…
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Man Blames Murderous Attack On Brother on His Epilepsy
Muang district police in Chonburi have announced the arrest of a 38 year old man after the murder of his elder brother in Bang Sai Soi 105 earlier this month. Thammarat or “Both” has been charged with the murder of Suphamit Roowong, 40, and having a knife concealed on his person. A warrant had earlier…
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Sattahip Man Stabs Ladyboy Because “She” Did Not Resemble Her Photo
A serial thief arrested in Sattahip said that he stabbed his latest victim in the chest because it turned out to be a lady boy and not a woman. But the transgender fought back with a punch of his own and the vicious thief was soon in custody. Yesterday Sattahip police took Prayat “Golf” Uppatham,…
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Large Drug Busts In Thailand’s North and South
Six billion baht (US$184 million) worth of illegal drugs were intercepted by Thai authorities in two locations on Monday, interrupting supply lines to different parts of the country and overseas. The first major haul was discovered by the Narcotics Suppression Bureau after officers intercepted a pickup truck in Sukhothai in the lower north, while a…