PUBLISHED: 15 Aug 2024 at 05: 22
SONGKHLA: Five of seven people involved in the murder of a Malay merchant in 2015 to clean a 120-million-baht debts have been sentenced to death.
On Wednesday, Songkhla Provincial Court read out the Court of Appeal Region 9’s decision.
Five people: Yutthasak, Tan, Thanadech, Nongyao and Apichon ( surnames withheld ), were sentenced to death for the murder of Lee Ah Han, a 44-year-old Malaysian businessman. The other two, Ekapol, the gunman, and Shinapat, the pilot, however, had their death sentences commuted to living prison as they both pleaded guilty.
Tan, who is also Malay, hired Apichon and the others to take out the death, which occurred on Dec 4, 2015, on Karnjanawanich Road in Moo 8 Village in tambon Patong of Songkhla’s Helmet Yai area. In his vehicle, they shot Lee killed with an M16 weapons. According to police, the purpose of the crime was to clean a bill of more than 120 million ringgit owed to the entrepreneur.