Alleged YouTube victim yet to contact police
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The woman at the centre of a sexual-extortion allegation against a police officer has failed to come forward and lodge an official complaint, a senior officer said yesterday.
The accused policeman has been suspended pending an investigation.
“We have invited [the alleged victim] to provide testimony, but she has not responded to date,” deputy Metropolitan Police commissioner Maj-General Anuchai Lekbamrung said yesterday. In a widely seen YouTube video, Pol Senior Sgt-Major Worawit Nukoonkit, 42, who worked at the Din Daeng Police Station in Bangkok, is seen fleeing a man who complains loudly that Worawit had forced a woman to go to a hotel with him.
In response to the clip, a probe was launched and Worawit was suspended pending the outcome.
“But to date, no criminal punishment can be taken because the alleged victim has not come forward,” Anuchai said.
In another high-profile case, a Laotian woman officially lodged a rape complaint against Pol Second Lieutenant Thatree Seubsamarn.
Thatree, who worked for Thong Lor Police Station in Bangkok, has also been suspended pending a probe.
Thatree has been on the run since the woman made her initial complaint.
“We have issued an arrest warrant for him,” Anuchai said.
The 18-year-old Laotian said Thatree, who was moonlighting as a taxi driver, picked her up but instead of taking her to her destination, took her to a room and raped her.
