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Pheu Thai party-list MP Khattiya "Dear" Sawatdipol yesterday presented new evidence to police about the killing of her father, red-shirt Khattiya "Seh Daeng" Sawasdipol.
Before talking to Pol Colonel Wicharnwat Borirakkul, deputy chief of Metropolitan Police Division 1, Dear told reporters that the information she obtained corroborated Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yoobamrung’s claim that the killing was carried out by police.
She declined to say anything about the rank of the officer involved pending her testimony to police investigators.
Dear said she would give police information from witnesses to the shooting of Seh Daeng near Bangkok’s Sala Daeng Intersection on May 15, 2010, during a red-shirt rally.
Over the past one year and eight months, the situation has improved, more and more people dared to speak out and she received videos and witness testimonies, she said.
She expressed confidence that the justice system would punish the wrongdoer.
Wicharnwat said police would soon interview four or five more witnesses, while the ballistics test had been performed by the Forensic Science Institute. There has been some confusion as to whether the sharpshooter was positioned at the Dusit Thani Hotel or Chulalongkorn Hospital.
