Granny asset-stripper, drive-by killing, monk’s valour

Lender throws weight around

A Surin granny was stripped of almost all her assets by a gang of loan sharks who came after debts run up by her granddaughter in Krabi.

Subin Butgnam’s family has complained to police after three people turned up at her place late last month to demand she honour the 80,000 baht debt run up by Apinya Sangkaewkeaw, 28, who had missed repayments.

Ms Subin, 65, knew nothing about Ms Apinya’s debt problems and was shocked when the trio, two women and a man who claimed to be a local policeman, demanded she make repayment on her behalf. Ms Subin was not listed as a guarantor and the trio apparently presented no documents to back their claim that they had any right to be there.

Nonetheless, over the course of three visits they bullied Ms Subin into parting with…