Kitten-Killing Thonglor Moto Taxi Gets 18 Months

Panuwat Singhsahat, at right, is escorted by an officer at the Wang Thonglang police station in August. Photo: Matichon

BANGKOK — A Thonglor motorbike taxi driver was sent to jail for 18 months Thursday morning for killing nine kittens he adopted online.

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Panuwat Singhsahat was sent immediately to begin serving his sentence after the Phra Nakhon Nua District Court found him guilty of animal cruelty.

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Panuwat was found guilty of adopting cats through online pet groups which he then killed by strangling or smashing against walls. He was arrested Aug. 15 after police found over a dozen dead kitten bodies and remains near his apartment. Although he was suspected of killing many more, Panuwat confessed to killing only nine.

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