Archive For The “Crime” Category
Thai media reported that two people are in custody after the spray paint inscription “Scouser Lee B” appeared on the historic Tha Pae gate in Chiang Mai. One of them is 23 year old Lee Furlong from Liverpool. The other is Brittney Schneider, also 23, from Canada. The pair were staying at the Mad Monkey…
A Thai father who had repeatedly warned a man to stay away from his daughter shot at him then fired into his pick-up in the parking lot of Tesco Lotus in Nakorn Pathom yesterday. Police captain Wasan Tangtham found a lot of blood in a bakery at Lotus where U-Then had fled following the shooting….
The Iranian businessman charged with handcuffing and raping his ex girlfriend then shaving her head has denied everything after being interviewed by Pattaya police yesterday. Earlier “Neung”, 21, from Prajinburi, had gone to the cops to claim that she was forced onto a motorbike after the couple met in Walking Street in the early hours…
Fears are deepening that the Phrae couple missing since last Wednesday have been murdered. Thai media reported that police will resume a search of their property this morning amid fears they are buried there. Unconfirmed reports suggest that the brother of Nott Suddaen, 61, hired three men to murder her and Alan Hogg, 64. Mr…
Police in the north of Thailand are in the process of obtaining warrants in the case of the missing Thai/Australian Phrae couple. They say that at least 2 or three people are involved and they know who they are. They called it a “family affair”. Nott Suddaen, 61, and Alan Hawk, now said to be…
A Hong Kong celebrity had gone to the media early this morning after failing to get his property back after an altercation with a group of lady boys in Walking Street at 5am on Tuesday morning. The case ended up being dealt with by Pattaya police but he has been left confused after fines were…
A serial thief arrested in Sattahip said that he stabbed his latest victim in the chest because it turned out to be a lady boy and not a woman. But the transgender fought back with a punch of his own and the vicious thief was soon in custody. Yesterday Sattahip police took Prayat “Golf” Uppatham,…
Six billion baht (US$184 million) worth of illegal drugs were intercepted by Thai authorities in two locations on Monday, interrupting supply lines to different parts of the country and overseas. The first major haul was discovered by the Narcotics Suppression Bureau after officers intercepted a pickup truck in Sukhothai in the lower north, while a…
The experience of an elderly Irish man in Pattaya should serve as a warning to tourists to always lock their hotel door at night. While 70 year old William Joseph was sleeping soundly in his Jomtien hotel room last Friday a thief was prowling the corridors checking all the doors to see you had left…
A four year old girl out playing innocently on her bicycle was savagely mauled to death by three dogs that got out of a neighbour’s yard. Yet the dog owner could face little more than a small fine or a short jail term. When Ban Khawao, Chaiyaphum, police arrived in the soi behind some houses…