News Forum - Police officer who shot noodle vender sentenced to 25 years

[Thaiger]

A Phuket police officer who shot a noodle vendor on the streets of Patong when drunk last year has been sentenced to 25 years behind bars for the crime which was captured on video by security cameras. The 25 year old victim is permanently disabled from the incident. Pornthep Channarong was off-duty and said to be out drinking all night before shooting Aroon Thongplab in the stomach in the early hours of February 23, 2021. CCTV footage showed the officer denied entrance to Illuzion Nightclub for carrying a weapon as he drunkenly waved his gun around, later firing shots into […]

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[DoUKnowWhoIAm]

1 hour ago, Thaiger said:

The former police officer was given 20 years to fully pay the nearly eight million baht to the noodle vendor and his family.

The chanses for the nudel vendor to get any money is probably zero.

[DesperateOldHand]

Macho Thai cop with a gun.

Add alcohol. 

Not a good mix.

[HolyCowCm]

And I hope this ex-cop doesn’t try to complain that he is the victim. He basically crushed two lives. His and the vendor. Shame ! 

[thaicm]

Let's see...8 million baht fine to be paid over 20 years, all of which will be spent in prison.  I had no idea being a prisoner in a Thai jail paid so well.

[kalyan]

wow, fair trail and good judgement.

an police officer lost his life because of social order !