Man who travelled with MP's son to face attempted murder charge

The news follows the surrender of construction contractor Mun Poolsup to police on Thursday. 

Mun claimed he shot Farut in self-defence because somebody in the sports-utility driven by Farut fired at him first – so he shot back three times.

Police investigator Col Panu Buranasiri said yesterday that Mun was released on bail and was now under police protection.

Police looked for the murder weapon in a cornfield yesterday, in which Mun, in crime re-enactment, claimed he disposed of the gun, Panu said. There was a Bt10,000 reward for any person who finds the weapon and gives it to police, he noted.

Panu rejected any suggestion Mun was a scapegoat, saying police believed they had the real culprit because of the results from forensic tests on Mun’s pick-up and the suspect’s convincing admissions.

In Ratchaburi, Mun’s elder sister Sompong Laojindapan, 46, who stayed with their 80-year-old ailing mother, revealed that Mun, the youngest of six children, worked in Bangkok and was a good worker who earned his boss’ trust to run work at Nakhon Ratchasima. She recalled Mun phoning her to say he shot someone dead in self-defence following a road rage incident but that he wouldn’t try to interfere with the police investigation as he couldn’t afford it. He urged her to conceal this from their mum as she has heart disease. 

She insisted that Mun wasn’t a thug but a dutiful son to his mother and a hard-worker. She feared that Mun might not get justice and the case “wouldn’t end well” because he had clashed with influential people. 

Sompong expressed concern that her brother could be killed in a gangland style for his involvement with this case.