Bang Kapi killers get life, death
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Bangkok's Ratchadaphisek Criminal Court yesterday sentenced a man to death and three others to life in prison for their role in the 2009 armed robbery and murders of a Bang Kapi furniture-factory owner, his wife, daughter, son and housemaid.
The four men – Wanchai Anpan, 61; Parithat Numnoi, 55; Tharayuth Saensuk, 50; and Amnat Paradonpitak, 30 – broke into Thanayos Pathumwassana’s house on April 4, 2009, killed five people and took Bt3 million in valuables.
After their arrest, three of the defendants said Wan-chai had hired them for the robbery. Wanchai claimed that he was elsewhere, but the court was not convinced.
Thanayos and his 17-year-old daughter Sasima were fatally shot while 15-year-old son Thanawat was strangled. The maid was brutally killed. The court was told that Wanchai threatened Thanayos’ wife Kanokkan to tell him the password to the safe, but she said only Thanayos knew it. So they strangled her too.
Seeing the defendants’ actions as premeditated and brutal, the court sentenced all to death but then reduced three defendants’ sentences to life because of their confessions.
