Court decrease jail terms for BPP team guilty of abduction, assault
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Bangkok's Criminal Court on Monday reduced sentences for former border patrol police (BPP) officer Captain Nat Chonnithiwanit and nine former BPP officers for abuse of authority.
They were found guilty of abducting and detaining four narcotic suppression policemen, assaulting and forcing them to confess to drug crimes and demanding Bt2 million in ransom for their release from October 68, 2007.
The court gave the ten accused a 10-year jail term each, but halved the term for Nat and two others for their useful confessions, while the rest received further reduced jail terms of six years and eight months. The court also told them to pay Bt100,000 compensation (plus a 7.5 per cent annual interest) to each of the four damaged persons.
In another case, the Criminal Court sentenced Weerasak Eiumpongsa, 41, to a nineyear jail term for the 1993 murder of Japanese woman in Tokyo. Weerasak fled with the victim’s valuables to Thailand where he laid low for 19 years before his arrest in Nakhon Si Thammarat – only months before the case’s statute of limitation ended.
