A reenactment of a double murder ended in chaos on Sunday as angry relatives and friends tried to lynch a Thai man.
Police general Chalermkiat Sriwarakan, a deputy national police chief, was part of the party taking Sitthinan Narknoi, 35, to reenact the shooting of two men and the grievous wounding of a woman in Krathum Baen district of Samut Sakon.
But after police found it almost impossible to keep the baying crowd of revenge seekers at a distance they gave up on the reenactment after five minutes and took the suspect back.
The case stems from a double murder on Thursday last in which Sitthinan, of Nakorn Pathom, admits killing Suphapornpong Rungruang, 25, and Kittipong Chomphupet, 24, and seriously injuring Choncha Kanbua, 22.
He turned himself in to police in Suphanburi after an intense manhunt flushed him out.
A .380 automatic gun was recovered hidden in a cement drain in the countryside in Nong Ya Sai district.
The suspect has said that he was under stress with family problems and had got cross as he had been teased.
Source: Daily News