Described: 12 Jan 2025 at 14: 13
The shooter who killed a former Cambodian opposition MP in internal Bangkok last week, according to police, refused to reveal the killer of the killing out of concern for his mother’s safety.
Ekalak Phaenoi was questioned until about 10 p.m. on Saturday, according to Metropolitan Police Division 1 chief Pol Maj Gen Atthaporn Wongsiripreeda on Sunday. He admitted killing the Thai, but he did not identify the killer.
The 42-year-old past sea, who was captured on CCTV at the murder field and along his exit route next Tuesday, admitted to being the hunter who killed Lim Kimya in Bangkok’s Phra Nakhon city on Tuesday.
” He refused to give in-depth information … and feared that such information may alter some gathering”, Pol Maj Gen Atthaporn said.
According to the Bangkok authorities department commander, Mr. Ekalak refused to meet with his family who were there on Saturday, including his mother. He called his mother to tell her that he wanted to get punished in jail before he hung up the phone.
Additionally, Mr. Ekalak, also known as Lieutenant Em, declined to name the man responsible for the execution. Additionally, he was willing to re-act the violence and request bail.
A police source confirmed that Mr. Ekalak had committed the crime, but he would certainly pin anyone else at him. He claimed to not want to cause problems to his family or those near to him.
Mr. Ekalak fled to Cambodia where he was detained on Wednesday and extradited on Saturday following the murder.
Lim Kimya, 73, arrived in Bangkok on Tuesday night after travelling by bus from Siem Reap, Cambodia. He was shot dead by a waiting shooter in front of his wife and brother.
The victim was a part of the popular opposition party Cambodia National Rescue Party, which was disbanded by a court after an alleged crime plot back of a 2018 election. The group disputed the claim that the Hun Sen regime’s reported plot was fabricated.
His European family planned to transport his brain to France for burial. The figure was being cared for at Bangkok’s Vajira Hospital.