Jomsap asks PM for help to regain her teaching licence

Jomsap was accompanied by New Democracy Party leader Surathin Pijarn when she submitted the petition for help to the premier via the public service center at the PM’s Permanent Secretary’s Office in Bangkok. 
Jomsap said she had applied for the Sakhon Nakhon Education Area Office’s permission to reinstate her as a public school teacher. It was granted in early February on the condition that she must submit a teaching licence. 
Jomsap’s teaching licence expired during her trial as she could not file for a licence renewal within the deadline. Now she has to apply for a new licence with the Teachers’ Council of Thailand, which requires a committee to consider her application in a lengthy process. 
Jomsap said Education Ministry officials told her they would table her case this month.
Jomsap said her life was difficult after her civil servant rights were removed. She said she might soon lose her house and land as she has to pay her children’s education expenses plus other debts. She urged the premier and related agencies’ to help get her re-instated quickly. 
Although she was still waiting for the Supreme Court’s decision on whether to exonerate her or uphold the previous ruling, she said her case was a light unintentional offence. The accusation or conviction of such an offence should not prevent her from returning to the civil service, she said. 
She still gets a pension since her dismissal from the civil service in 2013. 
Jomsap and the public prosecutor presented evidence and testimony in February for the retrial application.
Jomsap was sentenced to three years and two months in jail for the death of elderly cyclist Lua Phorbumrung in a hit-and-run incident in 2005. 
She served 18 months before being released by royal pardon in 2015.