Inquest on Wat Pathum Wanaram dead to open in June
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The Criminal Court will on June 18 convene an inquest into six people killed at Wat Pathum Wanaram in connection with the anti-riot operations to disperse the red-shirt rally at Ratchaprasong in May 2010.
“The prosecutors plan to call 104 witnesses to testify,” Metropolitan Police deputy commissioner Maj General Anuchai Lekbamrung said on Friday.
Anuchai said police investigators had completed their reports on all 18 deaths suspected to involve state officials during the political disturbances from April to May 2010.
Of the 91 deaths, the Department of Special Investigation put 18 cases, which might have a linkage to riot forces, into a batch. The DSI then sent the 18 cases back to police for forensic checks, paving way for the inquest on cause and circumstances.
Anuchai said the court had already scheduled inquest sessions for 17 deaths, including the six for the Wat Pathum case.
The inquest on the final case No 18 is expected to be scheduled soon since police have resubmitted the report to public prosecutors following the gathering of additional evidence, he said.
