Phuket trial over fatal Tiger Disco fire postponed
Phuket Gazette -

The charred remains of the disco after the blaze. Photo: Gazette File

PHUKET: The trial of the operators of the Tiger Disco nightclub for the deaths of four people, including two tourists, in the blaze last year in Patong has been postponed until the end of November.

Tiger Group CEO Piya Isaramalai and management representatives of Sara Entertainment Co Ltd were scheduled to appear in court on September 2 to face charges of causing deaths and injuries through negligence .

However, the trial has been delayed to allow the Office of the Public Prosecutor for this region to "review" the case file.

“The defense lawyer submitted a letter to the Office of the Attorney General requesting that authority to reconsider the charges,” Public Prosecutor Vivath Kitjaruk told the Phuket Gazette.

“The Attorney General subsequently requested the Office of the Public Prosecutor to review the file. I sent the file to the Office of the Public Prosecutor for Region 8 in Surat Thani two weeks ago and still have not received it back,” he explained. “Therefore, the trial has been postponed. Hopefully the case file will be returned to me sometime next month.”

“The trial date for witness testimonies will take place around the end of November,” Prosecutor Vivath added.

Source: http://www.phuketgazette.net/phuket_news/2013/Phuket-trial-over-fatal-Tiger-Disco-fire-postponed-22246.html

-- Phuket Gazette 2013-09-15

I wonder what the statute of limitations is for a case such as this?

>>“The defense lawyer submitted a letter to the Office of the Attorney General requesting that authority to reconsider the charges,” Public Prosecutor Vivath Kitjaruk told the Phuket Gazette.

I agree, more charges should be added.

Maybe the new tourist court can get involved.

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If we wait long enough, people will have forgotten, or died! problem solved. Another Thainess example!

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Exactly ...

Too busy drinking tea perhaps.

All they are doing is to deliberately in order to stave this issue off until the facts become blurred . The owners of this property are rather influential in Phuket and there is no excuse for any prosecutor to need further time to review the evidence.

This delay tactic is the most common defense of the privileged and elite in this country and it is certain that these delays have been well funded.

I guess the "bank transfers" haven't gone through yet.