Delighted bird lovers declare,’ Justice is served’
PUBLISHED: 13 Jan 2025 at 16: 38
The Court of Appeal has increased the intensity of the jail sentence handed down to a police officer who fatally beat the dog that was Chiang Mai University’s illegal symbol.
The Appeal Court Region 5 on Monday sentenced the gentleman to 16 months in prison without disqualification and ordered him to give 100, 000 ringgit to the school, deemed the dog’s caretaker.  ,
The officer’s title, position and status have not been released by the court.
The animal’s title was Tia Morchor. The mixed-breed dog was formally the school’s mascot. He made doi Suthep, a conventional walk up the school, and participated in other university activities.
Tia in this sense means little in Thai and , Morchor is the Thai name of Chiang Mai University.
The officer had been given a suspended leave from work while serving in a Border Patrol Police unit in the San Sai city of Chiang Mai state, according to earlier studies.  , Some press stores named him as Pol Cpl Prinya Panyaburt, but this was not confirmed.
The puppy went missing in May 2020, and the man was given a suspended workday. At the time, the police was 27 years older and the dog was aged 8 years.
The dog has been missing from the school since May 4, 2020, according to a police report from an employee at the school. Three days later, the bird was discovered dead with a broken bone lying by a side of the road.  ,
The convicted commander was seen taking the dog away on his bicycle according to school safety recordings. He claimed that the puppy jumped off the vehicle, killing him in the fall.
He was given a six-month, no-fees sentence by the Criminal Court last year for animal cruelty. Other costs including extortion were dismissed.
Watchdog Thailand Foundation took the matter to charm, seeking a more serious abuse, including the embezzlement charge. It argued Tia Morchor was hardly a stray dog, but belonged to the school.
The Appeal Court agreed, ordered the defendant to pay the school 100, 000 ringgit in restitution and extended his prison expression to 16 weeks.
Monday’s decision delighted the campaigning team and other pet lovers.
” #justiceserved” was the tweet posted by Watchdog Thailand Foundation, while the tiamorchor Instagram page was flooded with thank you emails for the judge, the base and all those who helped get justice for the puppy, which was cherished by the students, staff, students and many others.
” Thank you to everyone who participated in this petition for Pi Tia’s fairness. And above all, thank you the magistrates for showing that justice however prevails”, wrote Ubolphan Nonthaburi on the puppy’s social media account.