Don’t bag that head
A bag of coconut coir helped lead police to the alleged killers of an ex-soldier shot three times and dumped by the side of a gravel road in Phatthalung.
Thanaphat Kongmai
Police believe the killers used the bag to cover the head of Pol L/C Thanaphat Kongmai, 32, a former policeman in the southern border provinces, before they shot him.
Media reports compared his case to that of a drug suspect killed in police custody in Nakhon Sawan when the former Muang station chief, Pol Col Thitisan Utthanaphon, put a black bag over his head during questioning, suffocating him.
In this case, however, the victim is a former police commando, thrown out of the force three years ago due to his drug-taking habit, and the alleged killers are his own mother, her lover and a relative who tired of his abusive behaviour.
Pol L/C Thanaphat’s body was…