Minister of Justice Thawee Sodsong suggests that the government will have to look at the law relating to the prosecution of individuals under 15 years of age, given significant changes in society and critical trends as identification of the killer and publication of personal photos is ruled out by authorities for now as the court determines his medical status.

A 45-year-old Thai man, a Brahim teacher, arrested in Yala province on Wednesday after a Bangkok court issued arrest warrants for three men, continues to tenaciously deny any involvement in the sale of a prop gun and ammunition to a 14-year-old killer, who carried out a mass shooting in the capital. The teenager accused of mass shooting and murder, whose lawyers claim mental incapacity, was transferred to the Galya Rajanagarindra Institute for Psychiatric Treatment from a Bangkok juvenile detention centre on Thursday.

 

It comes as police at Yanna Police Station in Bangkok issued three additional warrants for people associated with firearm and ammunition sales involved in the shooting spree, many of whom allowed their bank account to be used for relatively small payments, as little as ฿1,000. It has also emerged that the accused, charged with premeditated murder, used a loan scheme to fund the ฿16,000 purchase of the prop gun which he had engineered to fire live bullets and put to deadly use in Tuesday’s atrocity which took the life of a Chinese tourist, the mother of five-year-old twin daughters and a young Burmese shopping centre employee whose funeral rites are currently underway in Nonthaburi, just outside Bangkok.

 

by James Morris and Son Nguyen

 

Full story: Thai Examiner.com 2023-10-09

 

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Not exactly vast sums of money in play here.

Now we are told that the accused modified the pistol to fire live ammunition.

If that is so then why are the RTP arresting sellers of a legal blank-firing pistol.?

I have to believe the trusted Thai media.????

On 10/9/2023 at 2:52 PM, PETERTHEEATER said:

Now we are told that the accused modified the pistol to fire live ammunition.

If that is so then why are the RTP arresting sellers of a legal blank-firing pistol.?

I have to believe the trusted Thai media.????

Yes but this is LOS, stories mostly make little sense because society is very corrupt and dishonesty is indemic. I dont think the 14 y/o would have the smarts to modify the pistol himself, I would suggest he bought the pistol already modified!