Student, 24, arrested for violent robberies, holding meat cleaver to 10-year-old girl's throat

By Eakkapop Thongtub

 

Paphawin Phonphakdee, 24, is questioned at Phuket Provincial Police Station yesterday (Jan 14). Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET: A 24-year-old Phuket student has been arrested for robbing a 77-year-old man of a gold necklace and an amulet in an attack on Monday that saw the elderly man stabbed twice in the hand with a screwdriver.

 

The victim, Sathit Pongthanaphanit, was stabbed twice in the hand by a screwdriver while trying to fend off the robber, who made off with a necklace worth over B100,000 and a “first edition” amulet of revered Phuket monk Luang Por Chaem that Mr Sathit deemed “priceless”. 

 

Phuket Provincial Police Chief Maj Gen Rungrote Thakurapunyasiri announced the arrest of Phuket native Paphawin “Wee” Phonphakdee, 24, at a press conference held at Phuket Provincial Police Station yesterday (Jan 14).

 

Full story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/student-24-arrested-for-violent-robberies-holding-meat-cleaver-to-10-year-old-girls-throat-74391.php

 

 

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Five years hard labour would teach him a lesson......

12 minutes ago, webfact said:

necklace worth over B100,000 and a “first edition” amulet of revered Phuket monk Luang Por Chaem that Mr Sathit deemed “priceless”. 

I always leave my 100k necklace and "first edition" amulets at home in a Fort Knox-type vault when I go out.

(Comment is in response to the story although I notice headline is about another incident)

Edited January 15, 20206 yr by neeray
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I'll never understand why they allow a perp, to wear a helmet in the police station.

12 minutes ago, webfact said:

Phuket native Paphawin “Wee” Phonphakdee

Wee is right a wee brain .

4 minutes ago, CanuckThai said:

I'll never understand why they allow a perp, to wear a helmet in the police station.

That's in case the police beat him up in their "quest for the truth".

8 minutes ago, CanuckThai said:

I'll never understand why they allow a perp, to wear a helmet in the police station.

Maybe that is the 10 yo girl sitting on plods lap.  What do I know ...I know nothing.

get that helmet off so all your friends and relatives can see you ...scum 

“A man, wearing a full-face helmet walked up and grabbed my daughter. He held a meat cleaver to her throat and told me to give him all of my belongings,”

 

Sick, very sick.

No doubt the student was over stressed by the rigorous exacting pressure cooker of Thai academic life.

Rack him and hang him out to dry he will never change ????

10 years minimum and chop his hand off

2 hours ago, Emdog said:

No doubt the student was over stressed by the rigorous exacting pressure cooker of Thai academic life.

He failed the Anuban entrance examination for three year olds twice. 

4 hours ago, Emdog said:

No doubt the student was over stressed by the rigorous exacting pressure cooker of Thai academic life.

Maybe the "cram classes" got to him?

Hard labour breaking rocks with his helmet on would satisfy my sense of humor... as he seems attached to it.