Young Men Arrested For Fight With Briton In Pattaya

[Lite Beer]

Young men arrested for fight with Briton in Pattaya
Supakorn Akkhanant
The Nation on Sunday

Police arrested two young men yesterday who allegedly assaulted a 58-year-old former British marine in Pattaya.

The incident was captured on video and the clip has "gone viral" on Facebook and Youtube, drawing criticism about how badly the attack has affected Thailand's image, prompting local police to hurriedly investigate it.

Following a clue about one attacker's motorcycle taxi vest details, police rushed to Soi 16 (Marine Plaza) on Walking Street to apprehend Prasert Amatmultri, 25, who was wearing the same vest, and friend Wongsathorn Machoke, 19, for interrogation.

The duo later confessed to being the pair in the clip but claimed they assaulted the tourist out of self-defence. They alleged the Briton was hurting a Thai woman when Wongsathorn tried to intervene but was hit, so he fought back. Then Prasert "tried to help" and was attacked by the tourist, so he also fought back.

The video clip, however, showed only part of the incident - towards the end, when the foreigner was on the ground with the two Thai men kicking him, one of them wearing a motorcycle taxi vest.

The injured tourist was later identified as retired British marine Stuart Moses Levy, 58, who sought treatment at Pattaya Memorial Hospital.

Levy's Thai wife Ketsuda Levy, 35, told police that her husband was still drunk from a party the previous night and had told her in the morning that he would go for breakfast. She later learned that he was assaulted so they wanted to file a police complaint.

Witnesses said the drunken tourist, Levy, bumped and damaged a "Shisha" smoking pipe at a bar, leading to an argument with the female bar owner, after which he went into the bar and reportedly threw snooker rods and balls at people who tried to stop him. The young men came in and tried to stop the man but were hit by the tourist, leading to the fight recorded on the video clip.

-- The Nation 2013-03-31

[londoedan]

Levy's Thai wife Ketsuda Levy, 35, told police that her husband was still drunk from a party the previous night and had told her in the morning that he would go for breakfast

Thought alcohol might have had something to do with it.

[briboy]

is there anyone in Pattaya that is not a marine, commando, sas, seceret service etc, but how ever though you are if you go looking for trouble you can always find it, why go running to the cops when you do, you look for it be man enough to handle it

[angsta]

Saw this a few hours ago on FB. Attacking an old man, really? Is this the level we are dealing with?

Very brave.

[Payboy]

Shisha - the new jet ski?

[harrycallahan]

British people hit.

Thai people 'intervene'.

[Almera]

how badly the attack has affected Thailand's image, prompting local police to hurriedly investigate it.

Far more important to the Thais than an old man farang being badly beaten....

Don't forget your true value to Thais.....

[jbrain]

Following a clue about one attacker's motorcycle taxi vest details, police rushed to Soi 16 (Marine Plaza) on Walking Street to apprehend Prasert Amatmultri, 25, who was wearing the same vest, and friend Wongsathorn Machoke, 19, for interrogation.

Pattaya police captain's deputy's show their real colors once again.

[Almera]

Charges of 'damaging Thailand's image' have been made.

[andygunther]

Levy's Thai wife Ketsuda Levy, 35, told police that her husband was still drunk from a party the previous night and had told her in the morning that he would go for breakfast

Thought alcohol might have had something to do with it.

Apparently he drank his breakfast

[Payboy]

Charges of 'damaging Thailand's image' have been made.

Nothing that cannot be sorted by an "honest cabbie" press release.

[canopus1969]

Saw this a few hours ago on FB. Attacking an old man, really? Is this the level we are dealing with?

Very brave.

I take exception to that – I am 61 and NOT an old man !

[Suradit69]

Saw this a few hours ago on FB. Attacking an old man, really? Is this the level we are dealing with?

Very brave.

Yes, far more chivalrous to stand by while some drunken lout attacks a woman. Thank goodness we haven't sunk to that level.

[robblok]

Levy's Thai wife Ketsuda Levy, 35, told police that her husband was still drunk from a party the previous night and had told her in the morning that he would go for breakfast

Thought alcohol might have had something to do with it.

Apparently he drank his breakfast

Seems quite normal for some expats, to each his or her own. Though being a drunk nuisance should be punished this was a little severe.

[nattydread]

Saw this a few hours ago on FB. Attacking an old man, really? Is this the level we are dealing with?

Very brave.

do u have the link please?

[how241]

Saw this a few hours ago on FB. Attacking an old man, really? Is this the level we are dealing with?

Very brave.

do u have the link please?

+1

[RickBradford]

Channel 3 Thai repeated the line that it was a drunken 'farang' causing damage and having to be restrained.

However, part of the video shows the guy lying on the ground and being booted in the abdomen by one of about 8 Thai men on the scene. One of the motorcycle dudes also pelts him with his helmet...

[keithet]

So it seems that he started it... And the Thai people ended it...

Does this meen he will be deported for fighting?

[lubbkis]

Channel 3 Thai repeated the line that it was a drunken 'farang' causing damage and having to be restrained.

However, part of the video shows the guy lying on the ground and being booted in the abdomen by one of about 8 Thai men on the scene. One of the motorcycle dudes also pelts him with his helmet...

Amazing Thailand. Sawatedee Crap.

[meatballs]

"viral on facebook and youtube...". Googled his name and ended up here.

[sirchai]

Som Nam Na. There's not more to say.

[473geo]

Impaired judgement, bellicose behaviour, through over indugence in self administered alcohol is a well established path to a beating......look and learn

[belg]

so where is that alleged video ?

[bulmercke]

Video here: http://news.sanook.com/1177434/%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%99%E0%B9%84%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B8%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%B5%E0%B8%9D%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B1%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%87-%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%87%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B7%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%87%E0%B8%9E%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%B2/

[SparklingCascades]

There's never an excuse for violence. The Thai guys need to be locked up & worse.

Pattaya attracts the worst quality of Thai people - often rejects, druggies, jailbirds, wife-bashers.... from the wilds of Esaan, Buriram, Surin.....

All looking to put the squeeze on Pattaya's 'unique' farangs.

Pattaya - in lots of cases - also attracts the worst quality of farang from wherever - loners, addicts, drunks, dropouts, escapists, violent bikie-types.......

The Brit went in search of trouble and found it. Maybe he needed a learning moment.

Edited March 31, 2013 by SparklingCascades

[Unwisemonkey]

This is news because it involved a foreigner. Thais do this sort of thing amogst themselves quite often. No matter who is involved it is all bad for Thailands image. You have a drunk being served alcohol by a socially irresponsible bartender and owner that does not cut the drunks off. Vigilantes circumventing rule of law and administering justice... they could not have restrained him? No they wanted to effff him up. This sort of behavior is why vigilantism is prohibited. Police are trained to subdue. If Thailand wants to protect its image it will need to hold establishment owners to higher standards and punish vigilantes.

[londoedan]

There's never an excuse for violence. The Thai guys need to be locked up & worse.

Pattaya attracts the worst quality of Thai people - often rejects, druggies, jailbirds, wife-bashers.... from the wilds of Esaan, Buriram, Surin.....

All looking to put the squeeze on Pattaya's 'unique' farangs.

Pattaya - in lots of cases - also attracts the worst quality of farang from wherever - loners, addicts, drunks, dropouts, escapists, violent bikie-types.......

The Brit went in search of trouble and found it. Maybe he needed a learning moment.

Oh dear - do you ever have an original thought ?

[Boater]

Anyone have a link to the video ? , the other link didn't have the video

[Basil B]

The Brit went in search of trouble and found it. Maybe he needed a learning moment.

There are legal ways to deal with drunken idiots, "two wrongs don't make a right".

[lonewolf99]

Where I come from Two positives make a negative...."Aye, That'll be right !"

If this had been a local being set on by local's it would never make any Tube never mind Youtube. But because its a foreigner it gets publicity. I have no idea if any of the reports are correct but.....this is normal in S.E. Asia that multiple 40 kg to 50 kg sallow youths gang up in a fight.

If any 100 kg farrang landed a right haymaker square in the face of a local he would be up on a "Murder" charge.

The best advice I know is everything in moderation and stay away from confrontations in foreign climes.