Follow-up On Policeman's Attack On Karaoke Singer

[A_Traveller]

The Bangkok Post is noting that the Royal Thai Police fired the police officer who allegedly ran down a karaoke bar hostess on his motorcycle and chopped her arm off because she would not eat dinner with him.

The, now former officer, Pol Lance Corporal Nirut Thammasapattack has been removed from the civil service over the attack. He is also facing legal action, having been charged with attempted murder and causing serious injuries to Suphansa Wichanand after she refused to share a table with him and two security volunteers at a local restaurant on February 25.

An artificial arm has been provided for the victim, who now makes garlands to make a living, by the Police Hospital.

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[sriracha john]

The follow-up is to the closed thread:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?sh...=112487&hl=

Karaoke Singer Accuses Policeman Of Chopping Her Arm Off

The article is:

Officer sacked over horrendous assault

is continued here:

http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/b...s.php?id=123424

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At least its somewhat of a positive development...

[Briggsy]

His rank, Lance Corporal, is a low rank so it looks like it was insufficiently high to protect him from dismissal and perhaps prosecution.

It took 9 months to dismiss him and of course he has not spent a single night in the cells yet.

[naka]

His rank, Lance Corporal, is a low rank so it looks like it was insufficiently high to protect him from dismissal and perhaps prosecution.

It took 9 months to dismiss him and of course he has not spent a single night in the cells yet.

Probably considered too thick to stand trial

Naka.

[sriracha john]

Suphansa Wichanant looks on as a police doctor displays a prosthesis which will be attached to her right arm, most of which was severed in an attack in February.

The Nation

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As if the traumatic amputation of her arm wasn't bad enough, what's missing in the above photo is her horribly scarred and disfigured right lower leg that was visible during television news coverage.

[kmart]

Beyond belief...... Poor girl.

[sriracha john]

Regarding the above photo:

New arm from police

The karaoke-bar hostess who lost her right arm in a vicious attack led by a Saraburi policeman in February will soon be given a free prosthesis by the Royal Thai Police.

Suphansa Wichanant was brought to the Police General Hospital for an initial inspection yesterday by Deputy Police Chief Lt-General Pongsapat Pongcharoen. The prosthesis costs Bt57,000, and patients require a week of rehabilitation before they can use it comfortably.

Suphansa, 25, now makes a living selling garlands in a market in Pathum Thani, to which she travels from her home province of Angthong every day. She said she was still worried about her security after the incident on February 25.

The attack made headlines on March 22, when she came to Bangkok to file a complaint with acting National Police Chief Seripisut Temiyavej after the Ban Mor police made very little progress in probing the case or taking action against the three attackers, who included Lance-Corporal Nirut Thammasap.

Pongsapat said Nirut had now been dishonourably discharged after being suspended temporarily following the attack. Nirut, and two security volunteers, Nirand Kongtham and Prasan Bundok, are standing trial for attempted murder and assault resulting in severe and permanent injury.

He said Pol Colonel Anusorn Phinijsak, the former Ban Mor Police Chief, who was later promoted to the post of Deputy Angthong Police Chief, had been transferred temporarily to the Pathum Thai police headquarters until the trial was completed.

The Angthong Police Chief said he had provided protection for Suphansa and dispatched women officers to visit her regularly. He said he had pleaded with civil servants in Angthong to buy Suphansa's garlands so she did not need to travel all the way to Pathum Thani every day.

- The Nation

[sriracha john]

Police attack victim to get prosthetic arm

A woman whose arm was savagely hacked off by a policeman in Saraburi eight months ago after she refused to sit with him at a restaurant will be fitted out with a prosthetic limb provided by the Royal Thai Police. Suphansa Wichanan, 25, former hostess at a karaoke bar in Saraburi's Ban Mor district, yesterday met national police spokesman Pongsapat Pongcharoen as she was having the stump of her arm checked for being fitted with a prosthetic limb. Suphansa's right arm was chopped off above the elbow by Pol Lance Corporal Nirut Thammasap of Ban Mor police station. On the night of the incident, the officer and two other men, Nirat Kongtham and Prasarn Bundok, allegedly followed her on two motorcycles as she left the restaurant after the men had harassed her. They chased her down and the officer then chopped her arm off using a long knife.

Continued here:

http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/10Nov2007_news07.php