Liverpool Lou

They haven't said that they are closing it... "Nong Prue police confirmed that they would wait for the victim to make a better recovery to hear her testimony in order to bring the suspect into the justice system".

Nonsense, it's not "only in Thailand, eh". Confessions alone, without corroborating evidence such as in this case, don't get past the prosecutor's office in any country.

Doesn't matter, that's not enough on it's own.

Just as in any country, not just Thailand, an accused can change his plea or retract a confession at any time. Criminal cases very rarely, if at all, get to trial based on nothing more than an initial admission to police.

Hear, hear.

"I pointed out how corruption was our greatest problem here and when it us us against a Thai we always lose ... Didn't take long to prove my point". You haven't proved that point yet. "The bar stool warriors said I was crazy". Hmmm. Don't know about "crazy" but you haven't said anything empirically true so they may have been getting warm.

The most sensible and rational post of this thread, so far, but those qualities don't go down well with most Thaivisa posters!

...or the police do not have any empirical evidence against him, which they would need. An accused can retract an admission at any time

It's just you. 99.99% of tourists have a great holiday and get back home without being attacked by anyone.

Perhaps they did give a <deleted> but found no DNA evidence. It happens.

No one (apart from you) has said that the attack didn't happen. What has been indicated is that there is no evidence at this stage that would get the case to trial. No evidence against him (his initial admission isn't evidence if he changes his plea) and no testimony from the woman.

I disagree. He told police he did it. Any judge with their salt would not accept a not guilty plea with that evidence from the police themselves. "Any judge with their salt would not accept a not guilty plea with that evidence from the police themselves". A police station is not a court and anyone can change their plea at any time, judges cannot choose which plea they find acceptable at the start of a trial! An initial admission to the police is not evidence that can necessarily convict. Bear in mind that regardless of what the police want, or what an accused has said, the case has to be presented to the prosecutors at the Attorney General's office for indictment before it can proceed to trial. If there is no evidence likely to produce a conviction it will not get past that stage.

What is a "government registration plate" that is different from any other car/pickup registration plate and how does it differ? The police have specific registration plates, the armed forces do, royal family vehicles do and there are diplomatic plates issued to foreign government vehicles but I've never heard of "government registrations". Can you enlighten me?

It's to do with evidence and the chances of getting a conviction if he pleaded not guilty. With apparently no evidence against him for the attack and no testimony from the woman, no prosecutor would indict him.

No one can like this situation, obviously, but if the police have no actual evidence against him for the attack and the victim cannot testify against him in court, how far do you think a case could go if he pleads not guilty? It wouldn't even get past the prosecutor's office.

Spot on Liverpool lOU The proof of the pudding IS actually in the eating so to speak.. I know, that's why I said it. I can't understand why anyone ever uses the bizarre and meaningless phrase, "the proof is in the pudding".

Not at work and not answering his phone might prompt a visit to his residence. Just as likely to not have prompted that. If people you know perhaps choose not to answer their phone for a few days do you rush round to bang on their door and impose yourself on them?

"...you can catch cold". What does that mean in the real world, doc?

I did, years ago. That article doesn't confirm that the stall-holders were actually paying their rent. Neither was there any confirmation that anything in the article was known to be accurate (there are clear inaccuracies in the article) or anything more than hearsay on the part of "Bangkok Eyes". The article seemed to be just an unreliable, "allegedly" article.

Good grief...

Anyone who buys a new car today, assuming that it wasn't built in 2019 or hasn't been sitting around as stock for years, buys a 2022 model!

Really? Even though the rents were paid to the holding company. Rents may also have been paid to the collectors who wear tight brown suits and big black boots. You really think that they were paying rent right up to the night in question? Bribes paid by the bar operators to the police are irrelevant to the owners who wanted their property back.

Huh? No, it won't. The proof of the pudding is in the eating!

Crazy? How many 160s have been sold and are all Thais buying them to replace their 125s? Is there any significant increase in fuel costs for a 160? Not crazy, at all.

How do you know that no one phoned him? Would he have picked up?