Crime, Courts, Calamity

BANGKOK — Two suspects accused of killing 20 people at a shrine in Bangkok denied the charges today before a military tribunal.

By Sasiwan Mokkhasen and Todd Ruiz

BANGKOK — The chief suspect in August's bombing of the Erawan Shrine has claimed top military and police officers were present when he was told he would be killed if he did not confess to the crime.

BANGKOK — A Bangkok man is fighting to get himself convicted of sexually abusing a child five years after he says his brother was made a scapegoat and imprisoned for the crime.

By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Aukkarapon Niyomyat
Reuters

BANGKOK — A Chinese ethnic Uighur man arrested in Thailand over a bombing that killed 20 people in Bangkok last year denied on Monday charges of murder or involvement in the attack, retracting an earlier confession his lawyer said he was tortured into making.

NONTHABURI — A young girl was injured when a man shot a mall sales assistant to death yesterday in western metro Bangkok before turning the gun on himself.

RATCHABURI — Thitirat Lheesuwan was surprised but not impressed that someone decided to decorate her car with rude words just before Valentine’s.

BANGKOK — Police said Friday they have found bloodstains and DNA from a Spanish victim in the apartment of the Spanish man who was arrested on suspicion of killing and dismembering him.

BANGKOK — Police today offered a 5,000 baht reward for a shoe box filled with knives they believe were used to dismember a Spanish telecom consultant.

PATTAYA — A Scottish man who appeared to be drunk did not go quietly into the night when police moved to arrest him last night for attacking a security officer on Pattaya’s famed Walking Street.

UDON THANI — Five youth claim they were imitating an infamously violent video game when they attacked three European retirees in Udon Thani on Wednesday, police said.