Somkiart Pongpaibul, a former leader of the now-defunct People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD), presented himself at the Criminal Court on Friday after the court issued an arrest warrant for his failure to show up to hear an Appeals Court ruling on the group’s 2008 invasion of Government House and state agencies.

THE Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant yesterday for Somkiart Pongpaibul, a former leader of the now-defunct People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD), after he failed to show up to hear an Appeals Court ruling on the group’s 2008 invasion of Government House and state agencies.