Child rape suspect not Grab driver: firm

By The Nation

 

 

Grab Thailand on Friday denied that a man who has been arrested for allegedly raping a passenger was one of its drivers, saying he used another man's Grab account.

 

The firm said the account has been terminated and the person who allowed the alleged rapist to use his account would be permanently banned from the service.

 

"The company hereby affirms that the person who committed the crime was not a driver of the company but he impersonated a Grab driver to lure the victim and the incident took place when the passenger was not using our application," the statement said.

 

The company was referring to the incident that took place on August 19 when a 16-year-old girl was raped under the Krung Thon Bridge.

 

The driver was arrested and identified as Wisanu Chanyoi, 34.

 

Police said the victim, who studies at a vocational school, called a Grab taxi to take her home after a night shift at a fast-food restaurant after school but the Grab car that she called failed to show up.

 

While she was waiting, a Honda Jazz allegedly stopped and the driver told her he was also a Grab driver and offered to drive her home without using the app.

 

Police said Wisanu then asked for the girl's mobile phone number so that he could contact her to offer services without having to use the Grab app.

 

The suspect then called her on August 19 to inquire whether she wanted to use his driving service. The girl agreed, saying three of her friends would go along to get off along the way.

 

But when all other passengers left, the man allegedly took her to rape under the bridge and left her there. He used a condom, the police said.

 

Police said the suspect was a former ranger and has been charged in several other rape cases and he used the account under his father's name.

 

Grab Thailand said it fully cooperated with the police, leading to the arrest of the suspect.

 

It advised passengers to have direct contact with drivers, saying its app has safety measures to save them from danger.

 

The company said the app has an emergency button to alert police and users can also add three phone numbers that will be alerted when the app's emergency button is activated.

 

Wisanu was unavailable for comment.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30353959

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-09-07

15 minutes ago, webfact said:

Wisanu was unavailable for comment

No phones in the cell.

3 minutes ago, Vacuum said:

No phones in the cell.

Cellphones you mean ?

Hope they get all the evidence now reported or big joke will have to sort it in 20 minutes? 

58 minutes ago, Esso49 said:

Cellphones you mean ?

He was arrested, and I assumed he was put behind bars.

He had been charged with several other rape cases ? and not in prison ? Sounds like his father is a "Hi-So" and he will not go to jail this time either>

Police said the suspect was a former ranger and has been charged in several other rape cases and he used the account under his father's name.

what he was doing free on the streets then ? 

On 9/7/2018 at 11:20 AM, webfact said:

Police said the victim, who studies at a vocational school, called a Grab taxi to take her home after a night shift at a fast-food restaurant after school but the Grab car that she called failed to show up.

 

Wonder if grab would care to explain why it did not show up?

33 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

Wonder if grab would care to explain why it did not show up?

it's explained in the first text line of the posted article

Edited September 8, 20187 yr by manarak

Not correct

 

He was using another grab drivers id, but the one who failed to show up was another grab driver. 

On 9/7/2018 at 11:20 AM, webfact said:

Police said the victim, who studies at a vocational school, called a Grab taxi to take her home after a night shift at a fast-food restaurant after school but the Grab car that she called failed to show up.

 

Edited September 8, 20187 yr by Bluespunk
Wrong poster quoted for some reason

10 hours ago, AsiaHand said:

He had been charged with several other rape cases ? and not in prison ? Sounds like his father is a "Hi-So" and he will not go to jail this time either>

Yeah.....all a bit suspect.

7 minutes ago, manarak said:

it's explained in the first text line of the posted article

Read the whole article and you’ll see that’s not correct. 

24 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

Read the whole article and you’ll see that’s not correct. 

the article text is an approximate translation  - it's quite clear what happened, the son first impersonated his taxi driver dad on the grab app, accepted the fare in the name of his dad, got the victim's details, then picked up the victim without acknowledging it on the grab app, took her phone number. On another day (I suppose), he called the victim and asked her if she needed a taxi and raped her.

 

23 minutes ago, manarak said:

the article text is an approximate translation  - it's quite clear what happened, the son first impersonated his taxi driver dad on the grab app, accepted the fare in the name of his dad, got the victim's details, then picked up the victim without acknowledging it on the grab app, took her phone number. On another day (I suppose), he called the victim and asked her if she needed a taxi and raped her.

 

That isn’t how I read the story. 

 

On 9/7/2018 at 11:20 AM, webfact said:

Police said the victim, who studies at a vocational school, called a Grab taxi to take her home after a night shift at a fast-food restaurant after school but the Grab car that she called failed to show up.

 

2 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

That isn’t how I read the story. 

 

Quote

Police said the victim, who studies at a vocational school, called a Grab taxi to take her home after a night shift at a fast-food restaurant after school but the Grab car that she called failed to show up.

 

 

The journalist or translator omitted to include the timeline. But the story only makes sense if first contact and rape happened at two different moments in time:

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Police said Wisanu then asked for the girl's mobile phone number so that he could contact her to offer services without having to use the Grab app.

 

The suspect then called her on August 19 to inquire whether she wanted to use his driving service. The girl agreed, saying three of her friends would go along to get off along the way.

 

But when all other passengers left, the man allegedly took her to rape under the bridge and left her there. He used a condom, the police said.

 

12 minutes ago, manarak said:

 

The journalist or translator omitted to include the timeline. But the story only makes sense if first contact and rape happened at two different moments in time:

 

I’m not denying what happened the second time he picked her up. 

 

I’m asking why the driver, she called, didn’t show the first time he picked her up. 

 

As far as I can see this rapist scumbag was not the driver (using his fathers id) she called. 

6 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

I’m not denying what happened the second time he picked her up. 

 

I’m asking why the driver, she called, didn’t show the first time he picked her up. 

 

As far as I can see this rapist scumbag was not the driver (using his fathers id) she called. 

 

As I read it, she didn't call for any particular driver the first time, she just called for "a grab car".

 

The link between both incidents can only be the grab app, I guess the rapist used his dad's grab app to locate the victim and then either didn't confirm picking her up or signalled a "no show".

1 minute ago, manarak said:

 

As I read it, she didn't call for any particular driver the first time, she just called for "a grab car".

 

The link between both incidents can only be the grab app, I guess the rapist used his dad's grab app to locate the victim and then either didn't confirm picking her up or signalled a "no show".

As I say we are reading it differently. 

3 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

As I say we are reading it differently. 

what's your theory about how it happened then?

Just now, manarak said:

what's your theory about how it happened then?

I don’t have a theory. 

 

Just questions. 

 

It’s late, I’m out.