After-meal beating ends in arrests
A Bangkok woman is urging police to stiffen the charges they have laid against a couple who assaulted her older brother, leaving him in danger of losing his life.
Kulakarn Kornnitaunchasa, 50, said she met the couple when they picked up her brother, Chatchai Kanthad, 55, from her home in soi Pracha Uthit 28, Chom Thong district, on April 26.
Chatchai Kanthad
They said they were taking him for a meal though Mr Chatchai’s family was unable to contact him again that night. CCTV footage later shows him being attacked and left for dead in a dimly lit soi.
They learnt about his fate when Somdej Phra Pin Klao Hospital called the next morning to say he had been admitted. Mr Chatchai, found in Phra Ram II’s soi 35, Chom Thong, was bleeding from the brain and stomach, and covered in bruises. His stomach injuries required…
