'Killer' police doctor sacked by hospital
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Pol Col Supat Laohawattana, a police doctor suspected of killing at least four people and burying their bodies on his property in Phetchaburi, will be fired and his request for early retirement suspended, Pol Lt Gen Jongjet Oajenpong, chief doctor at the
Supat has been arrested and detained on suspicion of killing a local couple he reportedly argued with several years ago.
Jongjet said he would today issue an order to have Supat removed from office and he would ask the Royal Thai Police to suspend Supat’s request for early retirement, due to take effect from October 1. He said Supat was now facing criminal charges and not qualified for early retirement. Supat’s promotion to Pol Maj General was due on Sept 30.
Sawang Numjui, the father of Samart Numjui, who went missing three years ago, filed a complaint with police yesterday accusing Supat and his wife Wilsa Chanthornbanchorn of conspiring to murder and hide the bodies of his son and daughter-in-law.
Sawang Numjui told police that on September 15, Suthep Laohawattana, Supat’s elder brother took his daughter, Wimol Numjui, to stay at Supat’s mother’s house in Nonthaburi’s Muang district. There they found a silver pick-up which his son Samart and Orasa used before the couple went missing three years ago.
Sawang said he called Supat and asked him why the pick-up of his missing son and his daughter-in-law had turned up at his mother’s house in Nonthaburi. He said Supat tried to intimidate him saying if he talked about the matter, he would not live in peace.
Sawang said he followed a team of police on Saturday to Supat’s property in Phetchaburi to find the bodies of the couple. Police uncovered a skeleton believed to be Samart with a bullet hole in the left side of the skull. He was confident the skeleton was that of his son because he recognised Samart’s teeth and the clothes on his remains.
Sawang said Suthep – Supat’s brother – had told his daughter Supat killed Samart and Orasa and buried their bodies in his farm in Phetchaburi. He claimed Supat’s wife Wilsa was an accomplice to the crime.
