Man Held For Killing British-Thai Youth Over Drug Deal

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Pixelated image of the suspect at Mae Tha police station. Photo: TV Channel 7

 

by TNR Staff

 

A MAN who was arrested in the murder of a half Thai and British youth in Lampang province last Sunday (May 7) confessed after lengthy interrogation that he did commit the crime after being double-crossed in a drug deal, TV Channel 7 said (May 9).

 

Pol. Lt. Gen. Piya Tawichai, commander of Provincial Police Region 5, and Pol. Maj. Gen. Weerachon Boonthawee, the deputy chief, together their team had been chasing the suspect after the body of the unidentified youth was found eight metres away from Ban Mae Than-Sop Prap road in Mae Tha district, with his face severely beaten and his jaw broken, around 12 hours after his death on Sunday.

 

The deceased youth’s girlfriend, only identified as Ms. Pong, 16, had disappeared with her fate unknown.

 

Upon being arrested Mr. Chaiwat (surname withheld), or Wat, 44, initially denied killing the youth. Only after interrogation lasting all night till this afternoon did he confess to committing this crime.

 

Full story: https://thainewsroom.com/2023/05/09/man-held-for-killing-mixed-race-youth-over-drug-deal/

 

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[mania]

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While police are still searching for Pong, they think she is safe.

From the story...I wonder why the police think this? Unless this perps MO is keeping a sex slave somewhere

 

Also from the story the killer a 44 year old ex-con who just got out of prison

for sex crimes claims the boy & girl were drug runners who lied about where they hid drugs?

Sounds off & I dont imagine these kids standing up to a 44 yr old drug pusher & keeping the drugs for themselves

 

In any case RIP young man & hope they find your girlfriend alive to tell the story of what happened

[Skipalongcassidy]

14 minutes ago, HuskerDo2 said:

So sad. Gone too young. The girl is likely dead or being trafficked for sex. The drug cartels are ruthless. They have become far too powerful. If politicians and police would grow some testicles and do something about the issue instead of accepting bribes to turn their head the world would be a far better place. 

While I agree that the drug cartels are ruthless and an abomination to civilization... the "gone too young" was a choice that he made.  First... do not become a drug mule... second... if you do don't rip off the cartel... you can't fix stupid.

[HuskerDo2]

Just now, Skipalongcassidy said:

While I agree that the drug cartels are ruthless and an abomination to civilization... the "gone too young" was a choice that he made.  First... do not become a drug mule... second... if you do don't rip off the cartel... you can't fix stupid.

I agree. It was a choice he made (as far as we know). Maybe he was forced into it or threatened. We can't pass judgement on someone for a situation we will never know the entire story about. Either way he was indeed gone too soon. 

[ezzra]

Stories such as the above and others similar are part of everyday life where people, young and old engaged in crimes of all sorts and mainly in the drug trade that seems to be a very lucrative one,

I can't imagine a society where there are no crimes, or drug dealings, and when you have those, and no matter how the police will try to manage and control crimes, you also will have victims, rightly or wrongly, the young will still die.

[SmokeandIce]

12 hours ago, ezzra said:

Stories such as the above and others similar are part of everyday life where people, young and old engaged in crimes of all sorts and mainly in the drug trade that seems to be a very lucrative one,

I can't imagine a society where there are no crimes, or drug dealings, and when you have those, and no matter how the police will try to manage and control crimes, you also will have victims, rightly or wrongly, the young will still die.

I think an important factor is police don't try to manage and control crime; instead, they profit from it through bribes and participation.   Not all but many.

[IamNoone88]

Good job by the RTP for catching this guy. Bad job by the prison authorities for releasing this habitual criminal who crimes just escalated. RIP kid .... you made some bad decisions and sadly paid the ultimate price.

[PingRoundTheWorld]

1 hour ago, mania said:

Sounds off & I dont imagine these kids standing up to a 44 yr old drug pusher & keeping the drugs for themselves

Agreed. It makes no sense. Maybe the guy wanted a piece of the girlfriend and they tried to resist? or maybe she was already sleeping with him and the kid found out and confronted him? It's extremely weird that the gf would ride with him (without trying to run away or ask for help) after she witnesses him murder her bf. Unless she was in on it or sleeping with him already.

[PingRoundTheWorld]

3 minutes ago, IamNoone88 said:

you made some bad decisions

Being a drug runner is not just a "bad decision" - it's a potentially life-ending decision either by prison/death sentence, or in this case another form of death sentence. I don't care how dumb a kid is - there is no excuse to get involved in something like this - especially if he comes from a relatively stable household and didn't come from the gutters.

[VinnieK]

The boy should be in Blighty playing with dolls not purchasing drugs in Thailand.

 

[BritManToo]

32 minutes ago, PingRoundTheWorld said:

Agreed. It makes no sense. Maybe the guy wanted a piece of the girlfriend and they tried to resist? or maybe she was already sleeping with him and the kid found out and confronted him? It's extremely weird that the gf would ride with him (without trying to run away or ask for help) after she witnesses him murder her bf. Unless she was in on it or sleeping with him already.

Maybe the girl was the drug runner, and the boy an innocent bystander.

[save the frogs]

2 hours ago, HuskerDo2 said:

If politicians and police would grow some testicles and do something about the issue instead of accepting bribes to turn their head the world would be a far better place. 

If people would stop doing drugs in the first place, drug cartels wouldn't exist and the world would be a better place. 

[BritManToo]

4 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

If people would stop doing drugs in the first place, drug cartels wouldn't exist and the world would be a better place. 

If governments legalised all drugs there wouldn't be any cartels either.

The war on drugs has been lost, time for the authorities to make peace.

[Dcheech]

1 hour ago, ezzra said:

Stories such as the above and others similar are part of everyday life where people, young and old engaged in crimes of all sorts and mainly in the drug trade that seems to be a very lucrative one,

You have lived in Thailand for how long and you believe the perps story? Any criminal in Thailand has to have an excuse, from brake failure, to he ripped me off. BTW I really liked Joe Ferrari's excuse's. Who knows what actually happened. At the end of the day he savagely murdered a person

[hotchilli]

Two sixteen year olds playing the drug game as runners.

No schooling and no work, drugs become the go-to for an income.

Sounds like the boy got on the wrong side of a deal and the young girl got implicated.

The boy is dead, god knows what happened to the girl, last seen with the suspect at a realtives cow shed taking her off somewhere.

As he has previous form for sex crimes I think she was raped and dumped somewhere.

[onthedarkside]

Off topic meme troll post removed

[spidermike007]

2 hours ago, HuskerDo2 said:

So sad. Gone too young. The girl is likely dead or being trafficked for sex. The drug cartels are ruthless. They have become far too powerful. If politicians and police would grow some testicles and do something about the issue instead of accepting bribes to turn their head the world would be a far better place. 

I fear accepting bribes is the least of it. More like taking part and being involved themselves. Likely the army too. Not much morality at the higher levels here. 

[Mickboy]

 A MAN who was arrested in the murder of a half Thai and British youth in Lampang province last Sunday (May 7) confessed after lengthy interrogation that he did commit the crime after being double-crossed in a drug deal, TV Channel 7 said (May 9)

 

 

Lightning speed arrest and confession, quite amazing by any standard well done thai police. 

[Pink Mist]

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[Bundooman]

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

If governments legalised all drugs there wouldn't be any cartels either.

The war on drugs has been lost, time for the authorities to make peace.

But on your terms, naturally - not the terms of the general population who have to suffer through the lack of self-control by druggies, eh?

[Swiss1960]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Only after interrogation lasting all night till this afternoon did he confess to committing this crime.

Not only in Thailand, but especially here does such a sentence raise certain suspicions with me...

[Yellowtail]

So is "THAI NEWSROOM" an Asean Now company? 

[brianthainess]

This whole story is very strange, his friends (possibly involved also in drugs) would have known what he was up to ''drug running'' is open to to a few interpretations, his GF was last seen with Chaiwat, so he has either killed her or she's gone into hiding either voluntary or not, but my first question still remains Where is the lads Motorbike, ????????????? (could the GF have gone off on it. ?) 

[4MyEgo]

I pray he gets the death penalty, real sooooooon !

[SoilSpoil]

2 hours ago, PingRoundTheWorld said:

Being a drug runner is not just a "bad decision" - it's a potentially life-ending decision either by prison/death sentence, or in this case another form of death sentence. I don't care how dumb a kid is - there is no excuse to get involved in something like this - especially if he comes from a relatively stable household and didn't come from the gutters.

People dont choose to become drug mules, runners or addicts. Its the result of a slow and painfull descend into the abyss. Dont judge a book by its cover. Every homeless person, every drug addict you see in the streets, wish they had a different life. There are many reasons, excuses, how one could end up in the gutter. 

[Yellowtail]

Just now, SoilSpoil said:

People dont choose to become drug mules, runners or addicts. Its the result of a slow and painfull descend into the abyss. Dont judge a book by its cover. Every homeless person, every drug addict you see in the streets, wish they had a different life. There are many reasons, excuses, how one could end up in the gutter. 

While drugs are a hole people fall into, many of the people involved, particularly traffickers are doing what they want. 

 

What is saddest about attics is the number of well-meaning people that do more harm than good. 

[Surasak]

2 hours ago, BritManToo said:

If governments legalised all drugs there wouldn't be any cartels either.

The war on drugs has been lost, time for the authorities to make peace.

Prohibition in the US 1920-1933 proved unworkable. Governments around the world could make billions in taxes on legalised drugs. Place a ban on something and that item has a value, which will be exploited.

[Asquith Production]

3 hours ago, Mickboy said:

 A MAN who was arrested in the murder of a half Thai and British youth in Lampang province last Sunday (May 7) confessed after lengthy interrogation that he did commit the crime after being double-crossed in a drug deal, TV Channel 7 said (May 9)

 

 

Lightning speed arrest and confession, quite amazing by any standard well done thai police. 

Lightning speed arrest and confession does not always mean a good investigation. I hope their is other evidence because we have seen other interviews that went terribly wrong. Not only do his parents want justice they want the person who did this bang to rights not some fall guy

[Docno]

Who knows how much of his story is true. Guy confesses after a lengthy interrogation. We know that in countries where police are disciplined and where interrogations are filmed, a lot of people confess to crimes they did not commit (25% of post-conviction DNA exonerations can be traced back to this). But let's say (and hope) the police have other solid evidence, and this guy is the perpetrator. Then he has every incentive to (in his mind) mitigate his actions by saying the youth was a drug dealer who ripped him off etc etc. I wouldn't assume any of that is necessarily true until there is other corroboration.  

[shackleton]

We need the girl involved in this murder  to confirm to police the true story if drugs were involved 

Hopefully she will be found okay