Red Bull Crash: Police To Seek Warrant If Vorayuth Doesn't Report For Questioning

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Red Bull crash: Police to seek warrant if Vorayuth doesn't report for questioning

By Coconuts Bangkok

Vorayuth "Boss" Yoovidhya

BANGKOK: -- Bangkok police will seek an arrest warrant to apprehend Red Bull heir Vorayuth Yoovidhya – who is a suspect in the hit-and-run Ferrari accident that left a Thonglor policeman dead – if he does not turn himself in for questioning soon.

Metropolitan Police deputy chief Anuchai Lekbumrung made that announcement today following Vorayuth’s no-show at Thonglor Police Station last Friday, the Bangkok Post reported.

“Another warrant will be issued. If he refuses to show up his bail money will be confiscated and we’ll seek an arrest warrant accordingly,” Pol Maj Gen Anuchai said.

Full story: http://www.coconutsb...or-questioning/

-- COCONUTS Bangkok 2012-10-23

[siampolee]

“Another warrant will be issued. If he refuses to show up his bail money will be confiscated and we’ll seek an arrest warrant accordingly,” Pol Maj Gen Anuchai said.

Oh whip me with a feather duster please.

Do the police seriously think that their proposed actions are going to worry the accused?

They might do well to check passport control to see if the accused is still in the country.If he is go get him,the police didn't have any qualms concerning summary justice in the war on drugs, why develop a social conscience in this case ?

[lizardtongue]

Taken from The Nation;

“Another warrant will be issued. If he refuses to show up his bail money will be confiscated and we’ll seek an arrest warrant accordingly,” Pol Maj Gen Anuchai said. He added that the investigation into the case was over 80% finished and that police had not yet requested his blood test results from physicians. The Nation reported on Saturday that cocaine was detected in Vorayuth’s blood.

If any credibility can be given to The Nation's report, it appears that they were privy to the blood test results before the police? One would have thought given the fact that it was a policeman who was the victim the 'Lab' would have completed the tests on the 'hurry up' and not waited to be contacted by the police but would have taken the initiative and offered up the results without being asked?

I guess 'Red Bull Boy' will have visited one of the illegal clinics (that the police are in the process of closing) and obtained a 'sick note' in the meantime his family will probably be looking for a 'friend' at the police laboratory in order to contaminate/lose the blood evidence.

Next step will be to buy some more time, so that a 'friend' in the police can misplace the paperwork failing that I am sure some of the judiciary will have unexpected bank account deposits, perhaps a new Ferrari to drive around in?

This made and still is making international news, the Thai police have an excellent opportunity to 'shine' on the international stage.

When this story broke I stupidly thought that justice will be seen to be done! Alas it now looks like the same old story? I hope I am proved wrong but......!

[jaltsc]

"Another warrant will be issued. If he refuses to show up his bail money will be confiscated and we’ll seek an arrest warrant accordingly,”

Yes, the waiter can deliver the arrest warrant along with his morning croissant and coffee....In St. Tropez.

[Seri]

He's only a suspect? Oh, yeah, they also have a maid or servant who confessed... Cut the BS! Any other family (except maybe the shinawatras or yubamrungs) and this guy would've already died in jail.

[asiawatcher]

Speechless - what a stupid bunch of keystone cops, even trying to paint doubt. Lock this guy up and wait until trial even if it is going to be a farce.

[tfc]

He's only a suspect? Oh, yeah, they also have a maid or servant who confessed... Cut the BS! Any other family (except maybe the shinawatras or yubamrungs) and this guy would've already died in jail.

Yes only a suspect, it's possible that the policeman was suicidal and jumped under the car and held on while being dragged along. There is also a possibility that the local unicorn knocked the policeman into the car which would equate to the usual "no one is at fault don't worry about it."

[LuckyLew]

TIT

Guys runs over and kills a cop

Guy is out on bail

Probably still has his passport

Has possibly left the country

Then request he show up for questioning

Then act all surprised that guy does not show up

Police work / corruption / lawlessness at it best

Banana republic

A law for the rich and a different law or everyone else

[softgeorge]

oh well he did a runner, dam_n. Stamp that closed and file it will you Somchia, oh and good work all, job well done in solving this terrible incident. Now there there is that pressing matter of the vendors who have not paid all thier monthly commissions, crush these criminals.

[Curt1591]

They want to set meaningful bail for this family? Freeze their assets until end of trial. That might get junior to show up!

[sms747]

Maybe he will come back in a year or so and get a job with the cops as a driving instructor, it's does happen here!- for the rich and connected obviously.

Edited October 23, 2012 by sms747

[gl555]

Are you guys really surprised at the lack of 'justice'? I mean really?

The fella is the scion of the richest family in Thailand. Do you really think someone like that will spend even an hour in jail? Doesnt matter if he killed a policeman, he's still untouchable no matter what the police says.

[karlos]

Wouldn't such a fugitive be hunted down and questioned back home in old Blighty?

Giving him a date to turn himself in is just allowing him more time to construct an alibi.

[Halion]

This case is going the same way as all priveledged perpitrators. It is a comedic farce at best. The poor servant who was coerced into claiming he was the driver found himself in court within a few days but this pathetic young man is still out in the open. The police claim that they are still awaiting the results of the forensics on the blood tests are completely full of brown fecal mater as such tests for substances such as cocaine can be detected in blood samples and or urine in less than 48 hours. Perhaps the "Boss" has been at a health resort for the past month to dry out and the police want to take another blood sample to show him in a different light. All concerned ,both family and authorities have a complete absence of any form of moral or social compas. Lowest forms of life. Yet another nail in this countries coffin.

[DLock]

"BANGKOK: -- Bangkok police will seek an arrest warrant to apprehend Red Bull heir Vorayuth Yoovidhya – who is a suspect in the hit-and-run Ferrari accident that left a Thonglor policeman dead – if he does not turn himself in for questioning soon."

The word "soon" has given the police plenty of outs on issuing this warrant.

The kid will turn up when all his "defense" ducks are in a row.

Right now he is content to watch Scooby Doo cartoons and eat Fruit Loops out of the box in his jim-jams.

[Robby nz]

I understand the minister of almost everything Kuhn whatever has stepped in with new evidence, sources say about 50 mill pieces of new evidence which prove beyond a boubt the young mans has no charge to answer.

The dead cops family were interview leaving the bank and said that they have accepted their share of the evidence and wish the young man and his family well.

Case closed

[Credo]

As disgusting as these cases are, and it seems like there are way too many of them, I think people in the Kingdom are becoming more aware and more upset. One of these days, the flagrant violations we see will be less common.

Money will always be important and will allow for the best defense and the best opportunity and the least number of witnesses--but some of that is true everywhere. But the day will come when they see the inside of a jail.

I just wonder if it will be the same jail as the ordinary citizens see or if it will be specially built.

[Scott]

A post which contains too many icons has been deleted. Try to use a little discretion in your posts.

[softgeorge]

Wouldn't such a fugitive be hunted down and questioned back home in old Blighty?

Giving him a date to turn himself in is just allowing him more time to construct an alibi.

Quite probably so, the same as in Australia. I know for a fact where I am from in Melbourne Australia, there would be no need to apply for a warrant to arrest someone who doesn't abide by thier bail conditions, arrest powers are built into the bail act. A person also who allegedly commits such crimes like hit and run and pervert the course of justice would have stringent reporting conditions like reporting from once a week to daily even twice daily to police b/w specified times and if you are late then you are arrested immeadiately. I charged a guy for a hit and run and he was required to report 3 times per week b/w the hours of 10 a.m and 4 p.m. When he failed to report by 6 p.m one day we were straight around to his home and dragged him straight off to the cells and he was remanded in custody for 3 weeks. They fool tried to produce a doctors certificate saying he was ill but it didn't wash with the magistrate who remanded him. The Magistrate's comment was "If you were well enough to make your own way to see a doctor then you were well enough to spend 5 minutes to pop into the police station and sign the reigister. I guess some countries take the judicial system and the laws more seriously.

[noitom]

The article implies that one "warrant" has already been issued. Unless they meant "warning." If it was a warrant already issued, he is in fact a fugitive. Why would the police hesitate to issue a second warrant? His failure to show up for court proceedings and indictments is tantamount to an admission of guilt.

[scorecard]

This case is going the same way as all privileged perpetrators. It is a comedic farce at best. The poor servant who was coerced into claiming he was the driver found himself in court within a few days but this pathetic young man is still out in the open. The police claim that they are still awaiting the results of the forensics on the blood tests are completely full of brown fecal mater as such tests for substances such as cocaine can be detected in blood samples and or urine in less than 48 hours. Perhaps the "Boss" has been at a health resort for the past month to dry out and the police want to take another blood sample to show him in a different light. All concerned ,both family and authorities have a complete absence of any form of moral or social compass. Lowest forms of life. Yet another nail in this countries coffin.

I like your point about moral compass. Here's another simple example:

Ultra rich mother drives kid to school every morning in top of the range new benz sports car. School has a car queue drop off system, progressively make your way to drop off point where school staff take the child from the car and parent then joins outside traffic. (Or park in the car park and walk the child to his/her classroom).

Rich mother drives direct to the point where kids are dropped off, refuses to join the queue. Many other parents have strongly challenged her and told her to join the queue, she claims all innocence and says she didn't know there was a queue system.

Further, on many occasions she stops at the drop off point, gets out of her car to go to the school canteen to eat breakfast, leaving the queue totally blocked. Again she says she didn't realize.

Bottom line - it's obvious she believes that she is not part of the system / doesn't need to follow the system, etc.

Nobody talks to her, she is so disliked, brought on by her own actions and attitudes.

Longer-term, horrible values to be teaching her kid.

Edited October 23, 2012 by Scott
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[harrry]

http://www.smh.com.a...1023-282xp.html

This one did not kill but look at what he got...

The newly elected deputy mayor of Auburn, high-flying property developer Salim Mehajer, has been sentenced to 150 hours community service and been disqualified from driving after crashing his Ferrari and injuring two pedestrians.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/deputy-mayor-who-crashed-ferrari-sentenced-to-community-service-20121023-282xp.html#ixzz2A5xrzQeq

Edited October 23, 2012 by harrry

[bigbamboo]

It's not difficult to see why the Thai people have such little respect for the Royal Thai Police.

[bridge2bridge]

My God, another reason why Thailand's legal system is a joke.

If this was a average person they would have been arrested the day of the accident, and not given bail until the trial.

How many chances do they give him to front at the police station.

AMAZING THAILAND.

[bridge2bridge]

This case is going the same way as all privileged perpetrators. It is a comedic farce at best. The poor servant who was coerced into claiming he was the driver found himself in court within a few days but this pathetic young man is still out in the open. The police claim that they are still awaiting the results of the forensics on the blood tests are completely full of brown fecal mater as such tests for substances such as cocaine can be detected in blood samples and or urine in less than 48 hours. Perhaps the "Boss" has been at a health resort for the past month to dry out and the police want to take another blood sample to show him in a different light. All concerned ,both family and authorities have a complete absence of any form of moral or social compass. Lowest forms of life. Yet another nail in this countries coffin.

I like your point about moral compass. Here's another simple example:

Ultra rich mother drives kid to school every morning in top of the range new benz sports car. School has a car queue drop off system, progressively make your way to drop off point where school staff take the child from the car and parent then joins outside traffic. (Or park in the car park and walk the child to his/her classroom).

Rich mother drives direct to the point where kids are dropped off, refuses to join the queue. Many other parents have strongly challenged her and told her to join the queue, she claims all innocence and says she didn't know there was a queue system.

Further, on many occasions she stops at the drop off point, gets out of her car to go to the school canteen to eat breakfast, leaving the queue totally blocked. Again she says she didn't realize.

Bottom line - it's obvious she believes that she is not part of the system / doesn't need to follow the system, etc.

Nobody talks to her, she is so disliked, brought on by her own actions and attitudes.

Longer-term, horrible values to be teaching her kid.

And the children will end up the same.

[pauljones]

It appears he was sent his first subpoena and didn't show. He will get one more shot to voluntarily appear, then they can arrest him, no?

[qdinthailand]

Probably repaying pop by taking over management duties of one of the Red Bull properties outside Thailand. He'll learn his lesson doing honest work! and wait for a more favorable climate to return to Thailand in a decade or so.

[culicine]

Probably repaying pop by taking over management duties of one of the Red Bull properties outside Thailand. He'll learn his lesson doing honest work! and wait for a more favorable climate to return to Thailand in a decade or so.

Maybe he can take Felix's place and be dropped from the stratosphere. Might wake him up to reality

[Chads]

Reminds me of this incident in Singapore in recent years. A speeding news reporter killed a motorcyclist and she was sentenced with 1 day of imprisonment. I think the authorities said she had already spent that 1 day in the holding cell in the courts, so she was released on that day itself. She didn't even go to an actual prison.

All Singapore news media are state-owned and controlled by the way.

[kennedy]

This may promote vigilante justice in Thailand?

Edited October 23, 2012 by metisdead
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