Some tough legal nuts to crack in the new year
Neither the fingerprints nor the DNA of the Myanmar boys sentenced to death in the Koh Tao case were found on the murder weapon, a hoe. Isn’t that disturbingly problematic?
Why was the investigation stopped before police had traced the person whose DNA was found on the hoe? And why did the court ignore the testimony of a renowned DNA expert from Australia?
In a separate case, a shameless former premier has fled justice and thereby shown contempt for the courts, yet he now wants to use the same courts to fight a case over his passport. How can a fugitive be allowed to raise a new case before he has surrendered himself and served his sentence?
Meanwhile the heir to a corporate fortune who allegedly killed a policeman with his Ferrari fled to Singapore, but has not been extradited despite that country’s reputation for strict law and order. Maybe the long arm of Thai law is not so long, or perhaps Singapore’s laws do not apply to rich people.
A Johnsen
