Dr Supat may face lesser charges
Police will still take legal action against a former Police Hospital doctor despite failing so far to locate bodies of a couple he allegedly kidnapped and murdered, a senior officer said yesterday.
Pol Colonel Pichai Pokpong, the commander of Tha Mai Ruak station in Phetchaburi, said police could still charge Pol Colonel Dr Supat Laohawatthana with unlawful detention and theft or buying a stolen vehicle based on evidence they had obtained.
Police have yet to locate Samart Numjui and his wife, Orasa Kerdsab. Three bodies found at Supat’s ranch in Phetchaburi were found by the Police Forensic Medicine Institute to not match DNA of Samart and Orasa.
Samart’s parents alleged that Supat abducted and murdered their son and daughter-in-law and the couple’s pickup was found at Supat’s Nonthaburi house.
Pichai said all the evidence was enough to make case against Supat.
Pol Lt-Colonel Sutham Pongsithong, an investigator at the police station, said Samart’s father, Sawang, had filed a complaint against Polthep Suwanwichian, Supat’s lawyer, accusing him of defamation in claims made to reporters that Samart and his wife had been detained by authorities in Myanmar.
Sutham said he would talk to journalists who reported Polthep’s remarks before deciding whether to take action against the lawyer.
