Accused Phuket Tourist Cop Refuses To Answer Questions

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Accused Phuket tourist cop refuses to answer questions
Tanyaluk Sakoot

PHUKET: -- The Tourist Police senior sergeant at the centre of the Phuket Town boarding shootout investigation in late March is still refusing to answer many police questions about the incident.

Pol Col Sermpan Sirikong, superintendent of Phuket Police, told The Phuket News that 40-year-old Tourist Police Sen Sgt, Maj Pinchai Piyadilok, had been questioned by police already but had refused to answer all questions put to him.

However, he had answered some of the questions police asked, Col Sermpan said.

Maj Pinchai remains in Songklanagarind Hospital in Songkla province, following amputation of his leg.

He faces two counts of murder and one of attempted murder in relation to the case.

Meanwhile, the other survivor of the mayhem, Natthapong Keawkuanchum, 25, is still yet to be questioned by police.

He has been discharged from Vachira Hospital and is now resting at home.

Col Sermpan told The Phuket News, “His mother refused to let the investigators question her son, because he needed to rest after his operation. After that, police visited to question him, but he was quite confused and he gave muddled answers.

“Officials will visit him again after Songkran – either this week or next week,” he said.

“I need both of them to speak to fill the gaps in the investigation. But I cannot force them to say anything. It is an important case. They have the right to refuse to speak prior to the court case.”

Police are also waiting for the results of forensic testing on the bullets and cases, which were sent to Bangkok to be examined.

When police arrived at the boarding house on March 20, they found 25-year-old Chalermpon Tripak dead on the bed in his room with one shot in the stomach.

Lying dead in a bloody heap next to the door was 25-year-old Saran Chaiyatham, shot in the left side of his chest.

Still alive on the bed, but with a stomach wound, lay Mr Natthapong.

Maj Pinchai Piyadilok was found slumped outside the door to the room.

At the time of the shooting, Phuket Police Chief Gen Choti Chavalviwat told The Phuket News that although all the details were not yet clear, Maj Pichai’s gun was the only one found at the scene, indicating he had fired the fatal shots.

Source: http://www.thephuketnews.com/accused-phuket-tourist-cop-refuses-to-answer-questions-38673.php


-- Phuket News 2013-04-16

[Bobobirdiebuddy]

Well that tells us nothing. Kind of like the Bangkok Post.

[Locationthailand]

What sort of article is this? As is often quoted - "please explain".

[TheShockMaster]

No news to see here... move along, folks.

[cup-O-coffee]

+1 for the prior posts. No explanation. Nothing. Move on...

[PETERTHEEATER]

Pol Col Sermpan Sirikong, superintendent of Phuket Police, told The Phuket News that 40-year-old Tourist Police Sen Sgt, Maj Pinchai Piyadilok, had been questioned by police already but had refused to answer all questions put to him.

However, he had answered some of the questions police asked, Col Sermpan said.

Am I reading this incorrectly? And was the alleged perpetrator a police Sergeant Major or a Major?

[me313]

Pol Col Sermpan Sirikong, superintendent of Phuket Police, told The Phuket News that 40-year-old Tourist Police Sen Sgt, Maj Pinchai Piyadilok, had been questioned by police already but had refused to answer all questions put to him.

However, he had answered some of the questions police asked, Col Sermpan said.

Am I reading this incorrectly? And was the alleged perpetrator a police Sergeant Major or a Major?

The reporter was accurately describing the vague responses presented, shifting between all-and-some questions not answered which means all-and-some information perhaps not quite as it seems, shifting vagaries....

[HarryMilton]

Pol Col Sermpan Sirikong, superintendent of Phuket Police, told The Phuket News that 40-year-old Tourist Police Sen Sgt, Maj Pinchai Piyadilok, had been questioned by police already but had refused to answer all questions put to him.

However, he had answered some of the questions police asked, Col Sermpan said.

Am I reading this incorrectly? And was the alleged perpetrator a police Sergeant Major or a Major?

Yes, you are. He refused to answer all the questions, those that he didn't refuse to answer, he answered, presumably.

[TackyToo]

I guess they don't have inactive posts for mono skiers. So, stay mum and enjoy your pension money!

[Frank James]

Anyone faced with charges like these should always refuse to talk to police or prosecutors. You need only utter one word, over and over until you get what you want: Lawyer.

[morocco]

What happened to him that he needed amputation?

[ALFREDO]

What happened to him that he needed amputation?

He was shot in the leg in a style that the Thai Hospital could not respond differently than to amputate. I think to remember, an important "blood vessel" shattered.

So he shot himself? One of the others shot him in a struggle over the gun? Or, there was one more man with a second gun?

We have to wait.