The incident took place near a bar called ?Pepper? in Chiang Rai′s
town center. When police arrived at the bar after hearing reports about a ?mad foreigner?, Mr.
Richard Mark, 51, was locking himself in the bedroom behind the bar, holding a kitchen knife and
claiming he would kill himself. Patrons of the bar were standing anxiously outside.

Ms.
Pattaramon Pakaranitichote, 38, identified herself as ex-wife of Mr. Mark. She said she had been
knocking on the room door for hours but Mr. Mark would not come out. Police and rescue workers then
pried out the window and the door slowly, and brought the ex-wife and his friend to negotiate with
him, but Mr. Mark still would not yield.

The Briton was becoming very visibly angry, so the
police decided to charge and disarm him. Mr. Mark, unharmed, was brought to the police station.

Ms. Pattaramon told police she divorced Mr. Mark few months ago. She said when she was
married to him they had opened a bar together, but after few months she realized Mr. Mark had an
uncontrollable anger. According to Ms. Pattaramon, Mr. Mark had once set fires to his car and his
house, so she filed for divorce.

Mr. Steve Tickner added that the temple, designated as
?Safe Zone? for the protesters by the authorities at the time, came under hails of gunfire for
hours.

Mr. Tickner was testifying as a witness to the Criminal Court in Bangkok, which is
attempting to establish who was responsible for 6 deaths in the temple, including some volunteer
medics.

Redshirts have accused the military as firing at the temple from overlooking BTS
track, citing video of the incident as evidence, but the army and members of the former government
under Mr. Abhisit Vejjajeeva have always denied the allegation.

The Australian reporter told
the court that he visited the Redshirts main camp at Central World shopping mall on 15-17 May,
wearing green armband to signify his press status. He said most of the protesters were farmers,
children, and ordinary people. He said he saw no armed group in the protest site.

Mr. Tickner said he saw a man falling down, helped himself up, and slumped onto a BTS
pillar. When Mr. Tickner went to investigate, he said, the man was bleeding profusely from the
bullet wound in his chest, so he and a monk helped carry him to the temple. The man was later
identified as Mr. Atchai Chumchan.

Mr. Tickner told the court that he later met a British
journalist inside the temple called Andrew Buncombe. Mr. Buncombe reportedly told Mr. Tickner he saw
guns being fire from the BTS track, but Mr. Tickner said he did not see anything. Nonetheless, he
said the temple came under attack from gunfire unceasingly for hours, sending people inside the
temple scurry to shelters.

During the moment of sustained gunfire, he said, Mr. Buncombe was
shot in the hip but he did not see the actual moment when the Briton was hit.

He said he took
some photos of the shooting, which started again around 21.00-22.00. Mr. Tickner said he left the
temple around 08.00 on the next day.

The protesters veiled part of the entrance
to the Court office with a large black banner which was spray-painted with the words Constitutional
Court Belongs To The People. The protesters then shouted slogans accusing the judges of meddling
with politics, and dispersed peacefully shortly afterwards.

Later, around 20 activists of the
group showed up at the Royal Thai Army headquarters to send an open letter to the Army chief Gen.
Prayuth Chan-ocha. The letter was received by a captain-rank official.

The letter said Thai
people are very anxious of rumor that there might be military coup to overthrow the government in
near future, so the group demands the Army to promise – in press conference – that they will protect
the democratic rule in Thailand.

Police received report about the individual and arrived at the beachside road to
find the man, believed to be a Thai national and aged 30-35, topless and in the state of intoxicated
madness.

The police had to struggle greatly to wrestle the suspect on the ground, but
eventually overwhelmed him and brought him to the police station.

Mr. Pratchaya Uppara, 41, a
local volunteer, said when he was patrolling the area he spotted the man walking out of nowhere with
large brick in his hand. Mr. Pratchaya said the man looked very angry, then he threw the stone at
nearby tourists, but missed twice, so the volunteer called the police.

Police say the suspect
was still drunk when the police interrogated him, claiming that he has parents overseas and that he
had been in Pattaya for 3 days for travel when he lost his luggage. The man told police he filed the
report but no action was taken so he came very stressed.