Prosecutors to receive evidence against Warisara murder suspects

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Prosecutors to receive evidence against Warisara murder suspects

By Siwa Loho 
The Nation

 

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Police will submit an 800-page case report into the highly publicised murder and dismemberment of 22-year-old Khon Kaen karaoke bar singer Warisara Klinjui to the public prosecutor early next month, Provincial Police Region 4 deputy chief Pol Maj-General Tanasak Rittidejpaiboon said on Tuesday.
 

It was expected that prosecutors would indict the suspects within their sixth period of 12-day detention.

 

Out of the five detained suspects in the case – Priyanuch Nonwangchai, 24, Kawita Rachada, 26, Apiwan Satayabundit, 28, Wasin Namprom, 22, and Jidarat Promkhun, 21 – Tanasak refrained from elaborating on who would be indicted and what charges they would face.

 

He said that Provincial Police Region 4 chief Pol Lt-General Jatupon Panraksa would conclude the case in a press conference on Thursday next week.  

 

He said police were considering filing charges including pre-meditated murder, destroying and hiding body parts to conceal the cause of death, theft, and possessing of stolen items. Police had interviewed 35 witnesses and included all evidence, plus DNA tests results, into the 800-page case report.

 

Jatupon and Tanasak had a meeting with investigators on Tuesday to follow through on the case’s progress. Investigators had already received test results from DNA samples collected at the room where the dismemberment took place and from the rented car allegedly used to transport Warisara’s body parts.

 

Priyanuch became an Internet sensation after she was accused of the killing and dismemberment of Warisara, and fled to Myanmar along with Kawita and Apiwan.

 

Days later, the trio surrendered to Myanmar police, who transferred them to Thai police on June 3 to face charges related to the gruesome crime. Wasin was arrested earlier in Laos and Jidarat was nabbed in Bangkok. 

 

Thai laws allows police investigators in a crime carrying a penalty of more than 10 years in prison to seek a court’s permission to grant up to seven successive periods of detention, each lasting 12 days. The total period a suspect is imprisoned must not exceed 84 days.

 

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