Riot bus looter gets jail for 5-years
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The Criminal Court yesterday handed a five-year jail term to Adisorn Seejanphong who was convicted of stealing a television from a torched bus in which a male teenager was found dead in Bangkok's Hua Mak area during the 2013 political turmoil.
As 30-year-old Adisorn’s confession was useful to the case, his sentence was reduced to three years and four months and he was ordered to return the Bt12,000 TV back to its rightful owner. Adisorn was acquitted of charges of bus arson leading to another person’s death and conspiring to assault and create a disturbance.
The lawsuit last March claimed that Adisorn and 14 others on December 1, 2013 damaged the bus – chartered to transport red-shirt demonstrators at the Rajamangala National Stadium on Ramkhamhaeng Road – before burning it. The fire caused Bt7million in damages and resulted in the death of technical student Suradech Khampaengjai. Adisorn was also accused of allegedly stealing seven valuables worth Bt138,500, which he later confessed that he had looted.
