‘pattaya Post’ Editor Found Shot In Head

[TAWP]

GANGLAND MURDER: ‘Pattaya Post’ editor found shot in headPublished on November 03, 2005

Santi’s reports on hotels providing sex services led to transfers of senior police. Chon Buri police are investigating the gangland-style murder of a journalist and local newspaper owner found shot dead in his BMW yesterday morning in Pattaya.

Santi Lammaneenil, 38, was shot three times – in the forehead, under the chin and in the right temple. His hands were tied with a power cord from a mobile-phone battery charger. He had been dead about 10 hours before his body was found at 7am in Bang Lamung district, according to the initial autopsy report.

Lt-General Jongrak Juthanond, commander of Provincial Police Region 2, said someone might have wanted Santi killed because of his gambling debts, extramarital affair or his exposure of night entertainment venues in the beach resort town that operated beyond legal hours.

Up to three men might have abducted Santi, or tricked him into meeting them at the crime scene, Jongrak said.

The editor of the Pattaya Post newspaper for more than 10 years, Santi also freelanced for TV Channel 7, and Khao Sod and Khom Chad Luek newspapers. He was deputy chairman of the local press association and set to become its chairman.

A local veteran reporter, who identified himself as Dej, said Santi’s coverage over the past few months of certain hotels in Pattaya providing prostitutes had led to the immediate transfers of five senior police.

Santi’s car was parked with the engine still running when it was found near brush on Naklua Soi 16. The car’s interior had been ransacked and the rear windscreen had a bullet hole. His pistol was found in the car with two bullets fired.

Police quoted his widow, Sumalee Seedaeng, as saying Santi told her about specific information stored on his personal computer before he went missing on Monday. Police have not found any information leading to a possible motive.

Sumalee said a man with a large build had twice come to look for Santi at her house – the first time on the day Santi went missing and the second time the day after. Santi had frequently stayed overnight with his relatives over the past few months. Recently he asked her: “How could our family go on if I’m abducted and killed?”

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2005/11/03...l_19052085.html

[sriracha john]

Definitely seems to be a busier-than-normal week for murders in Pattaya...

[johnh101]

I have never Heard of the Pattaya Post.

Mail, People, Today, City News, etc. but never the Post

[mijan24]

Maybe it was suicide.

Santi’s car was parked with the engine still running when it was found near brush on Naklua Soi 16. The car’s interior had been ransacked and the rear windscreen had a bullet hole. His pistol was found in the car with two bullets fired.

Santi Lammaneenil, 38, was shot three times – in the forehead, under the chin and in the right temple.

#One may have been a ricochet

His hands were tied with a power cord from a mobile-phone battery charger.

#Maybe an attempt to confuse the investigators.!!

He had been dead about 10 hours before his body was found at 7am in Bang Lamung district, according to the initial autopsy report.

Wonder if they confirmed this point by checking the fuel guage??

We will never know!!

Edited November 3, 2005 by mijan24

[Thetyim]

It was the man on the grassy knoll that did it.

[Jai Dee]

POLICE SUSPECTED THE MURDER OF A JOURNALIST IN PATTAYA RESULTED FROM GAMBLING OR VICTIM'S PROFESSION

Police suspected that the murder of a journalist in Pattaya was a result of gambling and the victim's work as press.

Royal Thai Police Spokesperson ACHIRAWIT SUPHANNAPHAYSAT (อชิรวิทย์ สุพรรณเภสัช) spoke on the death of Mr. SANTI LAMMANEENIN (สันติ ลำมณีนิล), the owner of Pattaya Post Newspaper who was shot on the forehead and the neck. His body was found blindfolded with the hands tied via a wire from a mobile phone adapter, in the back of a BMW parked in a forest in Chonburi province. Initially, police suspected two causes of murder, including gambling and problems arising from the victim's work as a journalist. However, other issues have not yet been ruled out, and the Region 2 Provincial Police Commissioner has ordered rapid investigation.

Pol. Lt. Gen. ACHIRAWIT also disclosed that police have been earlier informed from the victim that he was being targeted. However, the victim did not request protection.

Source: thaisnews.com ประจำวันพุธที่ 2 พฤศจิกายน 2548

[Patex]

Huh,

first I thought: Oh my God, brit!

[COBBER]

I have never Heard of the Pattaya Post.

Mail, People, Today, City News, etc. but never the Post

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Pattaya Post is a thai language newspaper.

[cobra]

Well it's not going to take Scotland Yard to figure this was certainly a hit,

[BlackJack]

now the big search is on for the computer that names names

leave this one alone as it runs to deep

[homeless007]

pattaya these days may already be compared to some major brasilian citys....daily robberies, muggings, violent street gangs....sad development....comes with the trade....i guess

[falux]

Shit, they have the ugliest girls in the country, the eldest f...ing falangs, and they still kill each other.

Yeah, Pattaya, garbage of the world. Go on.

[silk123]

Let that be a lesson to other reporters in thailand to not talk out about police acivities or anything that may effect the businesses of polititians, etc.

This is not the west. He did not commit suicide from a high floor for a reason. It's a warning to other reporters.

[Dickie_Doo]

Let that be a lesson to other reporters in thailand to not talk out about police acivities or anything that may effect the businesses of polititians, etc.

This is not the west. He did not commit suicide from a high floor for a reason. It's a warning to other reporters.

I don't understand, what are you trying to say?

[cdnvic]

Just a warning to anyone who may be thinking of throwing out unsubstansiated accusations against any individual. Don't.

It can cause us all kinds of trouble so no throwing accusations out or they will be edited out.

cv

[thaiflyer1]

Shit, they have the ugliest girls in the country, the eldest f...ing falangs

Yeah, Pattaya, garbage of the world. Go on.

Just curious............how do you know?

More to the point if they are your feelings i can't understand why your in the Pattaya Forum.

[Connor McCloud]

The ugliest girls in the world can be found outside the rose kebab shop in Colchester at 3 am.

You have to wipe chilli sauce all over them to make them tasty

[COBBER]

Shit, they have the ugliest girls in the country, the eldest f...ing falangs, and they still kill each other.

Yeah, Pattaya, garbage of the world. Go on.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Obviously the opinion of an academic.

[Jai Dee]

Local journalist abducted and murdered in Naklua.

Police Major Sanai from Pattaya Police Station was called to Soi 16/1 off the Naklua Road to investigate the suspected murder of a local Journalist, Khun Santi aged 38 who works as a journalist for the Pattaya Post Newspaper and is a local representative for the Thai national TV station Channel 7. At the scene senior local, provincial and regional Police Officers had been sent to the scene, led by Police Lieutenant General Jongrak, the Commander of Region 2 Police. The body of the man was discovered in the back seat of his car, a silver colored BMW, his hands were tied together using cable from a mobile phone charger and a piece of material, and his face was partially covered. It appears from initial reports that he was shot twice in the head using his own gun. Forensic teams inspected the car, body and surrounding area and dusted the car for prints. Khun Santi had been missing since Monday night at 9pm. The body was discovered at 7am on Wednesday morning at this location. The exact motive for the attack is unknown but the journalist was known to be involved in a gambling ring here in Pattaya, he was also an outspoken journalist and would often criticize local discotheques, pubs and the local Police and he was also known to spend time with many different women. An intensive investigation is now underway and we expect updates on the story in the coming days.

Source: Pattaya City News - Wednesday 2nd November 2005

[Zemran]

Shit, they have the ugliest girls in the country, the eldest f...ing falangs, and they still kill each other.

Yeah, Pattaya, garbage of the world. Go on.

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So the perfect murder would be to take a really decent girl to one of the old farts rooms and give him a heart attack?

[Frosty]

If I am not wrong,another man from this newspaper,Pattaya Post, was also murdered a year or two back. Does anyone have any info. about that?

[Foggy Bottom]

Get them in sequence folks -

Thai Post 2 Nov

POLICE SUSPECTED THE MURDER OF A JOURNALIST IN PATTAYA RESULTED FROM GAMBLING OR VICTIM'S PROFESSION

Police suspected that the murder of a journalist in Pattaya was a result of gambling and the victim's work as press.

Royal Thai Police Spokesperson ACHIRAWIT SUPHANNAPHAYSAT (อชิรวิทย์ สุพรรณเภสัช) spoke on the death of Mr. SANTI LAMMANEENIN (สันติ ลำมณีนิล), the owner of Pattaya Post Newspaper who was shot on the forehead and the neck. His body was found blindfolded with the hands tied via a wire from a mobile phone adapter, in the back of a BMW parked in a forest in Chonburi province.

Initially, police suspected two causes of murder, including gambling and problems arising from the victim's work as a journalist. .......

Pol. Lt. Gen. ACHIRAWIT also disclosed that police have been earlier informed from the victim that he was being targeted. However, the victim did not request protection. (did not request, or was refused?)

Source: thaisnews.com ประจำวันพุธที่ 2 พฤศจิกายน 2548

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Pattaya City News 2 Nov

Local journalist abducted and murdered in Naklua.

Police Major Sanai ... was called to .... to investigate the suspected murder of a local Journalist, Khun Santi ....

The body of the man was discovered in the back seat of his car, a silver colored BMW, his hands were tied together using cable from a mobile phone charger and a piece of material, and his face was partially covered.

It appears from initial reports that he was shot twice in the head using his own gun.

....Khun Santi had been missing since Monday night at 9pm. The body was discovered at 7am on Wednesday morning at this location.

The exact motive for the attack is unknown but the journalist was known (note the past tense - could have been investigative assignment) to be involved in a gambling ring here in Pattaya,

he was also an outspoken journalist and would often criticize local discotheques, pubs and the local Police

and he was also known to spend time with many different women. (Only report that paints him as having more than one affair - sensationalising?)

Source: Pattaya City News - Wednesday 2nd November 2005

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Pattaya Post 3 Nov - this is from the victim's publication

GANGLAND MURDER: ‘Pattaya Post’ editor found shot in headPublished on November 03, 2005

Santi’s reports on hotels providing sex services led to transfers of senior police. ...

Santi Lammaneenil, 38, was shot three times – in the forehead, under the chin and in the right temple. .....

commander of Provincial Police Region 2, said someone might have wanted Santi killed because of his gambling debts, extramarital affair (note the singular) or his exposure of night entertainment venues .... that operated beyond legal hours.

..... Dej, said Santi’s coverage over the past few months of certain hotels in Pattaya providing prostitutes had led to the immediate transfers of five senior police.

.... The car’s interior had been ransacked and the rear windscreen had a bullet hole. His pistol was found in the car with two bullets fired.

Police quoted his widow, Sumalee Seedaeng, as saying Santi told her about specific information stored on his personal computer before he went missing on Monday. Police have not found any information leading to a possible motive.

...Santi had frequently stayed overnight with his relatives (relatives, not ,ia noy's?) over the past few months. Recently he asked her: “How could our family go on if I’m abducted and killed?”

Now - ask yourselves .....

The body was discovered at 7am on Wednesday 2 November

How come 2 newspapers were able to have the story in their morning editions on that day? The presses would have stopped rolling around 4am or 5am

How come the two 2 Nov reports misreport the number of head shots? Were their reporters shown the crime scene before the police fiound the body, and "missed" a wound due to the piece of cloth noted in one report, or because it was on the underside of the visible head?

How much of the crime scene forensics would have been destroyed if that were true?

3 gun shots (maybe five) at around 9pm in a suburban soi and no-one phoned it in? No police response to the sound of the shots? scrape a car with your motorbike and they swarm out of the woodwork like ants homing in on spilt sugar - were they warned to leave the area to give the shooters time to switch provinces?

Too much here points at collusion with, or involvement of, the "public protectors"

Perhaps it went higher? Remember today's top politician was also once a policeman.

This is not the first newspaper editor shot this century - we had one in Chiangmai about 5 years ago - he survived and almost everyone in the town knows of his suspicions as to who ordered the hit.

Gaz

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[Dickie_Doo]

Too much here points at collusion with, or involvement of, the "public protectors"

I don't agree. The Royal Thai Police has already virtually solved the case.

To wit: clues as to his association with gamblers, undesirables and fallen women.

Edited November 3, 2005 by Dickie_Doo

[Jai Dee]

How come 2 newspapers were able to have the story in their morning editions on that day?  The presses would have stopped rolling around 4am or 5am

I can't answer your other questions Gaz, but as far as the news reports go, they are from online sources... bulletins issued electronically by the respective news sources.

I know that they were not issued before 5:00pm yesterday (Wednesday 2nd November) and were issued overnight as I received them this morning.

[stumonster]

in the back of a BMW parked in a forest in Chonburi province.

don't forget this bit gaz - soi 16 naklua has a forrest

[davethailand]

Shit, they have the ugliest girls in the country, the eldest f...ing falangs, and they still kill each other.

Yeah, Pattaya, garbage of the world. Go on.

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Obviously the opinion of an academic.

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Or a &lt;deleted&gt;

[Shrek]

GANGLAND MURDER: ‘Pattaya Post’ editor found shot in headPublished on November 03, 2005

Santi’s reports on hotels providing sex services led to transfers of senior police. Chon Buri police are investigating the gangland-style murder of a journalist and local newspaper owner found shot dead in his BMW yesterday morning in Pattaya.

Santi Lammaneenil, 38, was shot three times – in the forehead, under the chin and in the right temple. His hands were tied with a power cord from a mobile-phone battery charger. He had been dead about 10 hours before his body was found at 7am in Bang Lamung district, according to the initial autopsy report.

Lt-General Jongrak Juthanond, commander of Provincial Police Region 2, said someone might have wanted Santi killed because of his gambling debts, extramarital affair or his exposure of night entertainment venues in the beach resort town that operated beyond legal hours.

Up to three men might have abducted Santi, or tricked him into meeting them at the crime scene, Jongrak said.

Maybe it was an accident

They should just arrest everyone whose mobile is flat and count the bullets in their gun like Columbo

So perish all BMW drivers

The editor of the Pattaya Post newspaper for more than 10 years, Santi also freelanced for TV Channel 7, and Khao Sod and Khom Chad Luek newspapers. He was deputy chairman of the local press association and set to become its chairman.

A local veteran reporter, who identified himself as Dej, said Santi’s coverage over the past few months of certain hotels in Pattaya providing prostitutes had led to the immediate transfers of five senior police.

Santi’s car was parked with the engine still running when it was found near brush on Naklua Soi 16. The car’s interior had been ransacked and the rear windscreen had a bullet hole. His pistol was found in the car with two bullets fired.

Police quoted his widow, Sumalee Seedaeng, as saying Santi told her about specific information stored on his personal computer before he went missing on Monday. Police have not found any information leading to a possible motive.

Sumalee said a man with a large build had twice come to look for Santi at her house – the first time on the day Santi went missing and the second time the day after. Santi had frequently stayed overnight with his relatives over the past few months. Recently he asked her: “How could our family go on if I’m abducted and killed?”

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2005/11/03...l_19052085.html

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<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Maybe an accident

Just arrest everyone with a flat mobile and three missing bullets

[Anon999]

Let that be a lesson to other reporters in thailand to not talk out about police acivities or anything that may effect the businesses of polititians, etc.

This is not the west. He did not commit suicide from a high floor for a reason. It's a warning to other reporters.

I don't understand, what are you trying to say?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Not unless he is a member of the local mafia.

[Darkling]

The ugliest girls in  the world can be found outside the rose kebab shop in Colchester at 3 am.

You have to wipe chilli sauce all over them to make them tasty

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[johnh101]

Santi’s reports on hotels providing sex services led to transfers of senior police. ...

Correct me if I am wrong, but were all the transfers not for 30 days which would mean they all just got back recently ! !