Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence Against Chalor

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Supreme Court upholds death sentence against Chalor

The Supreme Court Friday upheld the death sentence against Chalor Kerdthet, a former commissioner attached to the Police Department.

Chalor, then chief of a police investigative team in charge of Saudi jewellery theft case, was convicted by the lower courts in abducting and murdering a mother and son to force a businessman to give him information about the stolen jewellery.

Chalor was convicted of abducting Darawadee Srithanakhan and her son and killing them to force Santi Srithanakhan to cooperate with the investigation.

The lower courts sentenced Chalor to death and he appeared against the rulings.

-- The Nation 2009/10/16

[TAWP]

How many more appeals before he is finally put down?

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UPDATE

SAUDI JEWELRY THEFT CASE

Supreme Court upholds Chalor's death sentence

By The Nation

Supreme Court upholds Chalor's death sentence

The Supreme Court Friday upheld the death sentence against Pol Lt Gen Chalor Kerdthet, a former police commissioner, on charges of orchestrating the abduction and pre-meditated murder of a jeweller's wife and son.

He showed no emotion when the judge read the verdict.

Chalor, then chief of a police investigative team in charge of Saudi jewelry theft case, was convicted by the lower courts in abducting and killing a mother and son to force a businessman to give him information about the stolen jewelry.

Chalor was convicted of abducting Darawadee Srithanakhan and her son and killing them to force her husband; Santi Srithanakhan to cooperate with the investigation.

The lower courts sentenced Chalor to death.

The case started in 1994 when Darawadi and her son Seri were killed by Chalor's men.

Chalor was put in charge of finding jewellery items that were stolen by a Thai worker from the palace of a Saudi Arabian prince in 1989.

Darawadi's husband Santi was a jeweller whom Chalor had earlier snatched to try to pry information from him on where the Saudi heritage pieces were hidden.

When Darawadi and her son went missing, Santi rushed to ask Chalor for help.

He was told that his wife and son might have been detained.

Santi was contacted by the kidnappers, who demanded Bt2.5 million.

Despite paying the ransom, he never saw his wife and son alive again. A hospital in Saraburi informed him that they were dead.

-- The Nation 2009/10/16

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against Pol Lt Gen Chalor Kerdthet

Isn't someone automatically stripped off his ranks when sentenced to death?

[jamesjdaly]

Now there's a scumbag who's off to hel_l soon and good riddance to him.

[bkkdawg]

Send this piece of vermin to hel_l where he belongs.

[toptuan]

A death sentence case still being appealed 15 years later? This is getting as bad as the West!

[cloudhopper]

against Pol Lt Gen Chalor Kerdthet

Isn't someone automatically stripped off his ranks when sentenced to death?

It's an inactive post.

[meom]

How many more appeals before he is finally put down?

One I guess. He can still apply for a Royal Pardon.

[satiariyan]

A death sentence case still being appealed 15 years later? This is getting as bad as the West!

... or rather the fraction of the West that still has death penalties.