Thailand’s Corrections Department has offered a 100,000-baht reward for anyone who provides information leading to the arrest of a convict who escaped from a hospital in the southern province of Nakhon Si Thammarat early Sunday morning. Ex-convict arrested with drugs, weapons in Surat Thani The fugitive, 37-year-old Chavalit Thongduang, was sentenced to 21 years and […]
More than 4,200 inmates serving sentences for cannabis offences were initially eligible for release from prisons nationwide on Thursday, when the delisting of cannabis as a narcotic drug took effect. However, those also convicted and sentenced for other offences were not being freed. Full story: Bangkok Post Bangkok Post Online Reporters and Chalit Pumruang
BANGKOK, June 7 (TNA) – The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration is cooperating with the Corrections Department to bring back prison inmates to clear sewers in the capital to reduce risks of flooding in the rainy season. Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt on Tuesday met with director– general of the Corrections Department Ayut Sinthoppan to allow convicts to […]
A railway worker who was condemned to death by the Appeals Court for raping and killing a 13-year old girl travelling on a night train has declined his right of appeal the verdict to the Supreme Court. The condemned convict, Wanchai Saengkhao, submitted a petition through his lawyer to Hua Hin provincial court declaring his […]
CHONBURI – An ex-convict is under arrest for allegedly raping a 23-year-old Danish tourist in Chonburi province last week. Police say the man, identified simply as Banleng, was arrested at around 8.30 pm on Friday night and charged with sexual assault. Read more: khaosodenglish.com
An ex-convict was fatally shot in the head in Chon Buri following an argument with friends, supposedly over either money or someone walking too loudly. 35-year-old Khun Worawut had recently been released from prison after doing time for drug-dealing offenses. Read more: pattaya105.com
A 26-year-old man was arrested for firing guns to scare workers at a Jomtien karaoke bar. He was mad because his friends had disappeared to let him pay the liquor tab. The suspect had been convicted of murder and theft as a teen, but served only a light prison sentence because of his age. Read […]
The Thai consulate general in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam, on Tuesday visited a 23-year-old student who has been convicted to death for drug trafficking, Thai foreign ministry spokesman Damrong Kraikruan said. On June 26, Preeyanuch Phuttharaksa, a Thai college student from Bangkok, was sentenced to death by a Vietnamese court after being arrested at […]
