Phuket murder suspect arrested after 20 years, caught by traffic stop

By The Phuket News

 

Police in La-ngu stand with arrested suspect Seree Thong-iab (holding paper to hide face), 43, in front of the police station. Photo: La-ngu Police

 

PHUKET:-- A man wanted for murder committed in broad daylight on Thepkrasattri Rd 20 years ago has been arrested in Satun province, south of Phuket, after he was stopped for driving a car without license plates.
 

Col Somsak Meesatjanon, Chief of the La-ngu Police, handed over the suspect, 43-year-old Satun native Seree Thong-iab, to Maj Hansuk Sritan and Capt Seree Ong-oad of the Phuket City Police on Thursday (Aug 29), , Capt Amnoui Medee of the La-ngu Police confirmed to The Phuket News.

 

Officers Maj Hansuk and Capt Seree had travelled from Phuket to Satun specifically to collect Seree, and bring him back to face prosecution.

Full Story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-murder-suspect-arrested-after-20-years-caught-by-traffic-stop-72727.php#Xx8WzF6Qr2f3ZUsI.97

 

-- © Copyright Phuket News 2019-09-02

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one week before the charges disappear - wow, if he did have a license plate that would be one number I wouldn't play the lottery with..

I'd have hated to play hide and seek with him, when he as a kid ! ????????????

“He had been on the run for 20 years, and this criminal case had only one week left before the statute of limitation for the crime expired,”

 

if someone tells him, 'dont fret it",

its likely to be another murder

I'm not sure if he's overly-confident or really stupid. Then again, he likely assumed that after 20 years all had been forgotten, so why not drive around in a conspicuously illegal vehicle back in his home province? 

Maybe he wasn’t using the correct starting date (by a week). He managed to lie low for almost 20 years, hard to believe he’d start flouting the law unless he was confident the time was up.

First, why did it take 19 years and 51 weeks to issue the arrest warrant? Second, I'm more than a little surprised to find out that there is a statute of limitation applicable to a first degree murder charge! As we say, TIT.....

Be the shortest trial in history when all the witnesses have died of old age !

someone finally cleared the bottom drawer! 

 - i guess someone finally retired/expired?; 

 - to clear the way for a new bod? 

Hurrah for traffic stops, let's have more of them!

The usual sluths post all the answers based on their long careers in law enforcement and knowledge of the Thai system. I can only read and be grateful I don't know any of the players in the story.

4 hours ago, paulbrow said:

First, why did it take 19 years and 51 weeks to issue the arrest warrant? Second, I'm more than a little surprised to find out that there is a statute of limitation applicable to a first degree murder charge! As we say, TIT.....

If only they would have enforced the TM28 reporting back in the day he would have been caught right after returning home from Phuket...

Looks like his hiding habits are hard to give up????