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	The court granted Banthit Sitthithum, 48, former police officer at the Wang Nam Yen police station, the benefit of the doubt.</div>
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	Banthit had been charged with collaborating with another man to fire an RPG into the Defence Ministry compound on March 20, 2010.</div>
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	The court ruled that the prosecution&rsquo;s witnesses and related evidence was either contradictory or not convincing enough to convict the suspect.&nbsp;</div>
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	The court also did not believe that the four witnesses could have seen Banthit&rsquo;s face clearly in the dark.&nbsp;</div>
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	Banthit did not turn up to hear the ruling. The Supreme Court had on September 9 issued an arrest warrant for Banthit after he failed to turn up to hear the verdict, which was initially scheduled to be read that day.&nbsp;</div>
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	The suspect was first convicted by the Criminal Court but acquitted by the Appeals Court on the benefit of the doubt.&nbsp;</div>
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	He was released on bail pending the Supreme Court ruling, but jumped bail and has not been seen since.&nbsp;</div>
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Supreme Court acquits former Wang Nam Yen police officer in RPG firing case

The Supreme Court yesterday acquitted a former police officer from Sa Kaew's Wang Nam Yen district of charges that he had fired a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) at the Defence Ministry during the 2010 red-shirt protests.