Col. Thitisan Utthanaphon, the police chief better known as Joe Ferrari, testified Wednesday that although he did kill a man in his custody with a plastic bag, he didn’t mean for him to die.
On trial for murder at Bangkok’s Central Criminal Court for Corruption and Misconduct, the former Nakhon Sawan police chief said he only intended to intimidate and scare Jeerapong Thanapat, who was brought in on suspicion of a drug-related crime.
He admitted that Jeerapong was one of many suspects whose heads he wrapped in a plastic bag, saying he would make sure the bag wasn’t tied too tight. He also said the video of the killing, leaked in August by an unnamed whistleblower who said the chief was trying to extort money from Jeerapong, was tampered with.
He is joined by six co-defendants in the case. All were charged with multiple crimes inculding conspiring to…
