4 Myanmar workers sentenced to 2-8 years for teen girl’s murder in Ranong

By Thai PBS

 

 

Four Myanmar migrant workers were handed down jail terms ranging from 2-8 years by the Ranong provincial court and Ranong juvenile court after they were found guilty of the murder of an 18-year-old Thai female student in Ranong three years ago.

 

The four Myanmar workers, including two youths, were accused of stabbing to death Ms Orawee Sampaothong, a Mathayom 6 school girl on September 18, 2015 as she was walking alone in a soi next to Saphan Phra monastery in Tambon Bang Rin, Muang district.

 

They allegedly told police that they were furious after they were chided by the victim and decided to attack her with knives.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/4-myanmar-workers-sentenced-2-8-years-teen-girls-murder-ranong/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2018-04-20

2 minutes ago, webfact said:

jail terms ranging from 2-8 years

 

2 minutes ago, webfact said:

after they were found guilty of the murder of an 18-year-old Thai female student

Another pathetic sentence in a questionable justice system.

I don't think the word 'deterrent' is in these people's

vocabulary.

Why the hell so short sentences ??

They confessed to the killings,,,unlike their fellow countrymen on Koh Tao, who was sentenced to death.....

 

The juridical system here is a joke...and clearly a lottery...!!

 

2 hours ago, JOC said:

They confessed to the killings,,,unlike their fellow countrymen on Koh Tao, who was sentenced to death.....

Didn't the Koh Tao guys confess too, initially.

 

Anyway -

"Relatives of the four Myanmar workers maintained that they were framed and vowed to appeal the verdict to the higher court." 

(original article)

 

A dodgy prosecution case might explain the suspiciously low sentences. And can't sentences be increased on appeal, a bit of an incentive not to appeal I would've thought. And, of course, Burmese workers being framed and false confessions being elicited is already a bit of a cliché here.

 

I think before jail they should go on a compulsory fish feeding and mushroom picking foray and await the new sentence

Reconstruction overkill from the file photo but little more than a vapours sentence for the crime something not right here. 

Wonder if the sentences wold be so low if the victims had been the family of high ranking officials ? 

4 hours ago, JOC said:

Why the hell so short sentences ??

They confessed to the killings,,,unlike their fellow countrymen on Koh Tao, who was sentenced to death.....

 

The juridical system here is a joke...and clearly a lottery...!!

 

The employer of those accused was in possession of a CTTV file stating clearly, that the accused were working in his factory during the time of the murder of the girl. The police confiscated the video and tortured the workers into a confession. Read the whole story, please.

5 hours ago, JOC said:

Why the hell so short sentences ??

They confessed to the killings,,,unlike their fellow countrymen on Koh Tao, who was sentenced to death.....

 

The juridical system here is a joke...and clearly a lottery...!!

 

Some seriously questionable sentencing here, and look at the waste of resources to parade this Ba**ards through the streets when so many people losing their lives on the roads, Pathetic 

8 hours ago, fxe1200 said:

The employer of those accused was in possession of a CTTV file stating clearly, that the accused were working in his factory during the time of the murder of the girl. The police confiscated the video and tortured the workers into a confession. Read the whole story, please.

But, but  but that will shatter those who have already made up their minds based on their opinion of the thai justice system and virtually zero understanding of thw real facts of the case. 

17 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

 

Another pathetic sentence in a questionable justice system.

I don't think the word 'deterrent' is in these people's

vocabulary.

I guess the judges accepted chiding as a mitigating factor. The sentences are all

 

over the map. Mushroom picking 15 years. An innocent schoolgirl 2-8. I shake my head.  

On 4/19/2018 at 5:57 PM, JOC said:

Why the hell so short sentences ??

They confessed to the killings,,,unlike their fellow countrymen on Koh Tao, who was sentenced to death.....

 

The juridical system here is a joke...and clearly a lottery...!!

 

I agree with the joke part.  But as for the confession, well, who knows what they were threatened with by the authorities while they were in prison/jail

On 4/20/2018 at 4:00 AM, fxe1200 said:

The employer of those accused was in possession of a CTTV file stating clearly, that the accused were working in his factory during the time of the murder of the girl. The police confiscated the video and tortured the workers into a confession. Read the whole story, please.

I know that I am late coming to this posting but few people are aware that the same Royal Thai Policeman involved in the wrongful conviction of Wai Phyo and Zaw Lin on Koh Tao is involved in this case too. Amazing Thailand? Not really he is now a top cop. Promoted to the highest post in the police division.