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Police motorcyclist gets 1 year, 15 days jail for killing ‘Mor Kratai’

Motorcyclist Pol L/Cpl Norawich Buadok (masked), a riot control policeman, at the Office of the Attorney-General to hear the prosecutors’ decision to indict him on Feb 22. (Photo: Varuth Hirunyatheb)

The Criminal Court on Monday sentenced motorcyclist Pol L/Cpl Norawich Buadok, 21, to one year and 15 days in jail without suspension for running over and killing ophthalmologist Waraluck Supawatjariyakul on a zebra crossing in Bangkok three months ago.

The court was told that Pol L/Cpl Norawich, of the Metropolitan Police Bureau’s Protection and Crowd Control Division, was driving the Ducati Monster big bike that hit Dr Waraluck, of the faculty of medicine at Chulalongkorn University, on a pedestrian crossing on Phaya Thai Road in…

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