High-tech thief, cold-case kill heats up, vagrants fall out

Sarawut Kokram appears on CCTV.
Sarawut Kokram appears on LOW LUX.

A young man who converted his hand in order to robbery after watching how it was accomplished on TV says he was dismayed to get that in real life, CCTV cameras had been ready to catch their every move.

Krasang police in Buri Ram last week nabbed Sarawut Kokram, 22, regarding robbing a woman on knife-point on August 6. He produced off with her bag containing 19, 000 baht within cash and an ATM card, that he was able to withdraw another 7, 500 baht.

The victim, Lahon Unaiban, 55, a trader who had go to a local market to buy goods, helpfully still left a slip of paper in her bag with the PIN NUMBER number to the CREDIT written on it.

Mr Sarawut told police they are a fan of computer games using a robbery theme, and binge-watched the TV series Lupin , in which a robber sets out to avenge his father just for wrongs committed towards him by a wealthy family. “I desired to see if I could accomplish a robbery in the same manner, and what would happen while i did, ” he said.

As part of his arrangements, he bought a long-sleeved top with an engine, and a black cover up. On the night of the particular crime, he parked his motorcycle regarding 300m from the picture the way he had noticed it done in the news. He walked to some convenience store in which he saw his target. He approached Ms Lahon without hesitating, took out the knife and informed her to hand over the handbag.

After fleeing, Mr Sarawut withdrew the cash with the ATM card in her bag, making sure to use a cash machine outside the district therefore he would not be caught. The next day he bought a chair for actively playing his computer games, plus topped up their phone, which price 5, 000 baht in total. He kept the rest for another day but police resulted in to arrest your pet.

Mr Sarawut said this individual didn’t have an intend to spend the money; this individual just wanted to attempt robbing someone. This individual was dismayed to get that while in the Lupin TV series they have no CCTV cameras, in real life, they have a lot. “I just didn’t know, ” he said, while offering an apology to his victim.

Pol Col Wisanu Arphonpong, Krasang law enforcement head, said the district is a part of a safety zone created by Police National Headquarters. As such, it really is festooned with CLOSED-CIRCUIT TELEVISION cameras: 200 within the district itself plus immediate area. “When we received the complaint, we analyzed all cameras in the 3km radius, plus knew immediately who have did it.

“We obtained the warrant to search his home for proof, where we found plenty incriminating the suspect, including the clothing he wore throughout the robbery. ” Mister Sarawut was charged with theft.

Singha ‘Kwang’ Chimphan is taken to the scene of the crime he or she committed 13 many years before.

Blast from the past

A Suphan Buri man’s past caught up with him thanks to a DNA match whenever he was nabbed for a murder committed 13 years before.

Social fear Kaew police in Muang district a week ago arrested Singha “Kwang” Chimphan, 33, from Taling Chan sub-district, after a DNA test pointed to him since the suspect in the 06 19, 2009 homicide of Aree Meechana, 52, stabbed inside a row over drugs money.

The crime choose to go unsolved despite law enforcement questioning 10 witnesses at the time.

It occurred at Aree’s home in Taling Chan, exactly where police also found pubic hair and a condom. They sent the samples to a forensic lab which taken out DNA and moved into it in a database.

Quick forward to Mar 18 this year, when police arrested Singha for taking drugs, and took his GENETICS. This matched the DNA in the database taken from scene of the murder all those yrs before.

Police arrested him at home. Station mind Pol Col Paitoon Sriwilai said this individual questioned him designed for 20 minutes and obtained an admission.

Singha said he and Aree had used drugs on the day from the murder, when she asked for the return of 800 baht. He had borrowed the money to buy his provide.

He flew into a trend and stabbed the girl once in the upper body. Singha fled the scene, threw away the knife, plus went home to resume his life.

Right after he confessed, police took Singha to the scene. Aree’s house was sometime ago demolished, and is right now just vacant land, so they asked your pet to point to where it probably happened.

He also took police to Makhamthao Oughout Thong canal, about 800m away, in which he ditched the killing weapon. Back in the station, they had Singha reconstruct the scene.

Pol Col Paithoon stated the DNA examples were compared as part of a project to combine felony and forensic databases to bring them as much as international standards.

Singha had been sent to court cellular material to await more action. His father visited him presently there, telling his kid that if he had done wrong he need to confess, as he experienced no money to battle the case in court.

Nevertheless , if not he would help him as best he could.

Their son replied inside a weak voice which he had already opened up.

He or she said he visited see Aree at home, they had sex, so when she asked for return of the money he or she stabbed her.

Singha has a lengthy past including drugs. He was nabbed for taking methamphetamines in Nonthaburi in December 2018, and captured again for medication use in March, whenever police took their DNA, leading to the cold case homicide charges.

Suphon Suprom shows how he or she hit over their mate over the head with a piece of wood.

‘He took my link spot’

A homeless man upset after his mate ejected him from his usual sleeping spot under a bridge bashed your pet over the head till he was lifeless.

Boom Kaew police in Samut Prakan nabbed Suphon Suprom, 47, originally from Kalasin, after he struck Koh (no surname given), also 47, from Kamphaeng Phet, over the head using a piece of wood, eliminating him.

Koh and Mr Suphon were close friends who lived within bridge on a road alongside the Kanchanaphisek Expressway in Bang Phli.

Rescue workers and police found Koh, wearing jeans yet no shirt, resting near a forest where he and his fantastic drank regularly.

He had already been hit over the your forehead with a hard item. They also found two small bottles of energy drink which suppliers commonly recycle to market lao khao (fiery Thai grain whisky).

They found his killer Mr Suphon in a nearby casing village, where he fled on a bicycle.

A local came forward to say he previously seen him right now there. Mr Suphon inquired the man to go back plus check on Koh, when he was worried about their friend. However , when help arrived, Koh was already dead.

The destitute man told law enforcement that he lived with all the victim under the link. On the day he strike his friend, he previously gone fishing, and swapped his catch alcohol, which they drank under a nearby Bodhi tree.

They started to argue after getting intoxicated. “He threatened me personally and chased me away, telling me personally to sleep elsewhere, ” Mr Suphon said.

Adding insult in order to injury, the sufferer took Mr Suphon’s old sleeping spot under the bridge, which annoyed him. He grabbed a piece of wood from nearby plus struck him over the head three times before fleeing.

Pol Lt Col Thanthit Danrasee, head of inquiries in Bang Kaew train station, said Mr Suphon pointed to the killing weapon, a 70cm piece of wood, hidden under a sai (banyan) tree about 500m away.

Reporters spoke to some security guard which said the sufferer and his killer were close. “Whenever they will drink together they argue, only today it got beyond control, ” he said.