‘DJ Matoom’ gets suspended jail term over virus-cluster birthday bash
Partygoers also face charges
The South Bangkok District Court on Friday gave a one-year suspended jail sentence to actor Techin Ploypetch for violating the emergency decree by holding a birthday party at a hotel in Bangkok six weeks ago.
The party was the centre of a cluster of Covid-19 infections in Bangkok.
The court initially sentenced 31-year-old Techin, better known as DJ Matoom, 31, to two years in jail and fined him 20,000 baht for breaching the emergency decree by holding his birthday…
