Terms cut for BPP team jailed for abduction, assault, extortion

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 in October 2007.
The court gave the 10 accused a 10-year jail term each, but halved the term for Nat and two others for useful confessions, while the rest received further reduced jail terms of six years eight months.
The court also told them to pay Bt100,000 in compensation (plus a 7.5 per cent annual interest) to each of the four victims.
In another case, the Criminal Court sentenced Weerasak Eiumpongsa, 41, to a nine-year jail term for the 1993 murder of Japanese woman in Tokyo. Weerasak fled with the victim’s valuables to Thailand and “laid low” for 19 years before his arrest in Nakhon Si Thammarat – only months before the case’s statute of limitations ended.