webfact Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 An ex-cop who fired an RPG at the Defence Ministry jumps bailBANGKOK: -- The Criminal Court on Wednesday issued a warrant for the arrest of a former policeman charged with firing an rocket-propelled grenade into the Defence Ministry in 2010.The defendant, former Pol Lance Corporal Bundhit Sitthithom, 48, attached to Wang Namyen police station in Sa Kaew province, did now show up at the Criminal Court on Wednesday to hear the Supreme Court’s verdict against him.Bundit and another accomplice fired an RPG at the Defence Ministry to intimidate the government then to dissolve the parliament. However, the grenade hit the telephone cables of the TOT company and exploded, injuring Mr Sak Harnsonkram. The incident happened on March 20, 2010.The Criminal Court found the defendant guilty as charged and sentenced him to 38 years jailterm. He was acquitted by the Appeals Court and was granted bail. The prosecution later appealed the acquittal ruling to the Supreme Court.Besides the arrest warrant for Bundhit, the court ordered the seizure of the one million baht bail deposited with the court by the defendant’s guarantor. The court also decided to defer the reading of the verdict to October 20.Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/an-ex-cop-who-fired-an-rpg-at-the-defence-ministry-jumps-bail -- Thai PBS 2015-09-10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaidam Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 His boss will not care, what in the world can you buy in Dubai for a million baht? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seastallion Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 With a 38 year prison term looming, you'd think there would be a bit of a flight risk. 1 million baht against 38 years inside? I know what I would be doing....running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangkokfrog Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 A Pol Lance Corporal would hardly have enough loot stashed to spend the rest of his life on the run. Also, probably not important enough to be subsidized by whoever paid him the fire the RPG for the rest of his life. It will be interesting to see if he has disappeared or was disappeared. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOC Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 One might admire his bravado... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhizBang Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 One might admire his bravado... Why? Nothing but a coward, just like his paymaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessi Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 More Thainess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rykbanlor Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 How did he get acquitted by the appeals court? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireMedic Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 What other country would you be granted bail for firing an rpg at the defense ministry? Morons...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphod reborn Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 (edited) A Pol Lance Corporal would hardly have enough loot stashed to spend the rest of his life on the run. Also, probably not important enough to be subsidized by whoever paid him the fire the RPG for the rest of his life. It will be interesting to see if he has disappeared or was disappeared. How much would you need to pay off immigration in Sa Kaew to cross into Cambodia, and then live your life there? Plenty of other redshirts in Cambodia for him to scrounge off of and the money pipeline probably has its source in Dubai. I'm sure he's considered a hero amongst them. Edited September 10, 2015 by zaphod reborn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorG Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 What other country would you be granted bail for firing an rpg at the defense ministry? Morons...... In a different situation I would agree with you, but in this instance he was found to be not guilty on appeal, and therefore technically innocent until overruled by the Supreme Court. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edwinchester Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 If an arrest warrant has been issued why the need to censor the pic in the OP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPI Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 Fires an RPG at the Defence dept., misses and injures innocent person, sentenced to 38 years, appeals, counter appeal.......gets bail!!!! Yeah right!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klauskunkel Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 I am starting to wonder what actually happens to the bail moneys in such cases. Bail is so easily set and granted...and then, where does it go, in which pocket does it flow? Never to be checked on again... I am just wondering if there is oversight, a national bail account? Or does it all stay at a local level? Is the RTP involved in the bail process? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klauskunkel Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 and what's with the picture? They don't want the public to identify the guy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianf Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 His boss will not care, what in the world can you buy in Dubai for a million baht? Why on earth was he on bail in the first place? I can imagine anyone firing a RPG in any civilised country wouldn't get a sniff of freedom for a long long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duckmandon Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 What other country would you be granted bail for firing an rpg at the defense ministry? Morons...... Agree!!! One day these morons will understand that it is very easy to leave this country by paying a border official. Maybe they will then keep these criminals locked up until they have their day in court. What a waist of time & money for the Thai Government to have to now chase this guy around the world. Get decent judges who cannot be bribed & build some more prisons as Thailand is going to need them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seajae Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 How did he get acquitted by the appeals court? probably during the ptp reign, all the reds that helped got off no matter what they did as a payment from their big boss, shows just how bent the rules were under the ptp when someone attempting to murder people is given bail and let off as a thankyou. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TallGuyJohninBKK Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 One day these morons will understand that it is very easy to leave this country by paying a border official. Perhaps, they ALREADY know that all too well. Kind of a wink and nod thing. Yes, we're going to prosecute you. But we're not going to seize your passport (they seemingly almost never do) and we full well know that if the case goes against you it's darned easy to take your show on the road. Thus, it would seem, the chances of this kind of stuff ever getting better anytime in our lifetimes is slim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FangFerang Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 (edited) Anyone who harms or intends harm to civilians needs to be brought to justice, but few from either side ever are. Two contrasting events; One: In 2010, when the redshirts protested to dissolve the Abhisit government, over two hundred people were killed by gunfire, grenades... and No Coup occurred. Two: In 2014 when the yellowshirts protested to have the Yingluk government dissolved, less than ten people were killed (one of whom, a redshirt child, burned to death in a redshirt bus that was attacked and set on fire near Don Mueng airport)...and there was a coup -- the 18th in less than a century. I know you junta cheerleaders all like to group together in the hen shack and have a coffee, but don't you wonder why the rest of the world considers these two events overtly suspicious, completely irreconcilable, and altogether laughable? Have a nice rant. Edited September 10, 2015 by FangFerang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bheard Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 One imagines that is costs a fair amount of money to get a 38 year jail term squashed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thai at Heart Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 Once again the courts and system not doing its job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AleG Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 Anyone who harms or intends harm to civilians needs to be brought to justice, but few from either side ever are. Two contrasting events; One: In 2010, when the redshirts protested to dissolve the Abhisit government, over two hundred people were killed by gunfire, grenades... and No Coup occurred. Two: In 2014 when the yellowshirts protested to have the Yingluk government dissolved, less than ten people were killed (one of whom, a redshirt child, burned to death in a redshirt bus that was attacked and set on fire near Don Mueng airport)...and there was a coup -- the 18th in less than a century. I know you junta cheerleaders all like to group together in the hen shack and have a coffee, but don't you wonder why the rest of the world considers these two events overtly suspicious, completely irreconcilable, and altogether laughable? Have a nice rant. Your account of events is a shameless fabrication, 200 people were not killed in 2010, more than 10 people were killed in the Anti-Yingluck protests and the young man who died in that bus was not a Red Shirt, just a non-affiliated looter trapped when his fellow looters set the bus on fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billd766 Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 and what's with the picture? They don't want the public to identify the guy? With the deaf and dumb lady translator in the picture it looks as though it is a photo from a TV broadcast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
than Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 How did he get acquitted by the appeals court? Unfortunately ! During, Yingluck's corrupted administration, all trial against red shirt suspected of crime have been dropped... Investigation against redshirt backed terrorism movement (the Blackshirt) have been suspended or delayed by decision of the former administration (see Chalerm comment...) This is the real fact about Red/Shins justice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorecard Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 One day these morons will understand that it is very easy to leave this country by paying a border official. Perhaps, they ALREADY know that all too well. Kind of a wink and nod thing. Yes, we're going to prosecute you. But we're not going to seize your passport (they seemingly almost never do) and we full well know that if the case goes against you it's darned easy to take your show on the road. Thus, it would seem, the chances of this kind of stuff ever getting better anytime in our lifetimes is slim. I suspect it would be easy enough to just walk across the border at hundreds of spots and be in Cambodia. In his circumstances would he be concerned about having correct stamps in his passport? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AleG Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 Your account of events is a shameless fabrication, 200 people were not killed in 2010, more than 10 people were killed in the Anti-Yingluck protests and the young man who died in that bus was not a Red Shirt, just a non-affiliated looter trapped when his fellow looters set the bus on fire. You know it's all lies, he knows it's all lies. Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of events knows it's all lies. Thank you, but there's no real need to correct it. Just move past his obvious, and feeble, derailing effort to divert attention away from the red shirt grenadier that's now jumped bail. . The problem is that those sort of lies are the ones used to radicalize people to the point that they think it is OK to fire RPGs at the Defense Ministry, or Hotels, or train stations, etc, etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulic Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 Bail, really, no surprise he is on the run. This is definitely an only in Thailand story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seajae Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 Anyone who harms or intends harm to civilians needs to be brought to justice, but few from either side ever are. Two contrasting events; One: In 2010, when the redshirts protested to dissolve the Abhisit government, over two hundred people were killed by gunfire, grenades... and No Coup occurred. Two: In 2014 when the yellowshirts protested to have the Yingluk government dissolved, less than ten people were killed (one of whom, a redshirt child, burned to death in a redshirt bus that was attacked and set on fire near Don Mueng airport)...and there was a coup -- the 18th in less than a century. I know you junta cheerleaders all like to group together in the hen shack and have a coffee, but don't you wonder why the rest of the world considers these two events overtly suspicious, completely irreconcilable, and altogether laughable? Have a nice rant. maybe because the red shirt terrorists actually set up massive blockades and had an armed wing that was killing and blowing up people in Bangkok, shooting at soldiers and civilians before the army stepped in to try to control it then engaged them in live fire as well while the reds totally ignored the live fire zones declared. In the latest one they didnt start the shooting and bombings, once again that was the red shirts doing and once again under their bosses orders. Yes all of them are no good but it is the reds that are the ones that do the greatest majority of killing, bombings etc, at best the yellows retaliate and even then not with the same amount of fire power but this doesnt excuse them. Until these groups are actually disbanded and made illegal this sort of crap will continue. Thailand does not need the extremist shirts, they have enough crazies that kill for pathetic reasons as it is. what they need is a court/laws that lock them up and throw away the key Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubl Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 Anyone who harms or intends harm to civilians needs to be brought to justice, but few from either side ever are. Two contrasting events; One: In 2010, when the redshirts protested to dissolve the Abhisit government, over two hundred people were killed by gunfire, grenades... and No Coup occurred. Two: In 2014 when the yellowshirts protested to have the Yingluk government dissolved, less than ten people were killed (one of whom, a redshirt child, burned to death in a redshirt bus that was attacked and set on fire near Don Mueng airport)...and there was a coup -- the 18th in less than a century. I know you junta cheerleaders all like to group together in the hen shack and have a coffee, but don't you wonder why the rest of the world considers these two events overtly suspicious, completely irreconcilable, and altogether laughable? Have a nice rant. In 2010 93 people were killed during the March to May 'peaceful' protests. That number includes about 16 or so non-red-shirts. From begin of 2013-10-30 till 2014-05-22 26 people were killed. The 'child' burned to death was a 19-year old student. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013–14_Thai_political_crisis Cheers, from your local Dutch uncle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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