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Death penalty upheld for gold-heist school director

Prasittichai Khaokaeo arrives at the Criminal Court in August 2020 for sentencing after being convicted of murder and robbery at a gold shop in Lop Buri province on Jan 9, 2020. (File photo: Pornprom Satrabhaya)

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the death sentence for gold shop-robber Prasittichai Khaokaeo, a former primary school director in Sing Buri who shot dead three people, one a child, and wounded four others during a holdup at a Lop Buri mall in 2020.

On Jan 9, 2020, Prasittichai, armed with a 9mm handgun fitted with a sound suppressor, stormed into Robinson Department Store in Muang district, Lop Buri, and shot dead three people – a security guard, a two-year-old boy walking with his mother, and a woman employee of…

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