A Phuket Appeals Court today sentenced a Swiss national to one month in jail, in absentia, after he was found guilty of assaulting a female doctor in Phuket in February last year.

Phuket Court Acquits Swiss Man for Kicking Thai Woman Doctor

The ruling overturns a lower court’s decision, from September last year, which had dismissed the charges against Urs Fehr for lack of evidence.

Nipit Intarasombut, the lawyer for Dr Tandao Chandam, 27, posted on his Facebook that the defendant has evaded arrest and left the country.

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By Thai PBS World