Faustian Posted October 15, 2009 Report Share Posted October 15, 2009 How do you say, "you are totally fucking insane" in Thai... A most bizarre tale. Like really out there.... http://www.pattayadailynews.com/index.php CONFUSION SURROUNDS MURDER OF MOTHER AND DISMEMBERED SON BANGKOK, October 14 [PDN]: – The self-confessed killer of a mother and her five-year-old son surrendered to Bangkok police late yesterday, Tuesday, October 13, 2009, at the office of MCOT, the Thai News Agency, just at the time that news of the murders was being televised. Police had earlier stated the bodies were Koreans, attributing the killings to compatriots over a gambling debt. The self-confessed murderer, named as Siripong Kanjananiwit, 40, a taxi driver from Bang Bua Thong, Nonthaburi, got in touch with the MCOT office saying he wished to surrender himself to police. He duly presented himself at the office of Modernine TV, making his first confession to group of reporters from the Thai News Agency (TNA), who were handling the case, giving them a pistol and claiming he was the murderer. Police later went to the TNA office where they initially questioned Siripong before taking him to the Taling Chan Police Station. Siripong was initially questioned by Pol Lt Gen Worapong Chewpreecha, Commander of the Metropolitan Police Bureau and Pol Maj Gen Chakatip Chaichinda, Deputy Commander of the Metropolitan Police Bureau. In his confession, Siripong told the interrogators that he had killed his partner, Ms Sunan Srisuwan, 38, and her five-year-old son, Shaw Makino aka Cho, because he was under pressure and was afraid that he, himself, was about to become the victim of a hitman hired by Ms Sunan. Siripong told police that he and his partner had had an argument on the Sunday because Ms Sunan had accused him of being unable to kill her Japanese ex-husband as she had ordered him to do. During the argument, Siripong said he became infuriated and lost control and in a "jealous rage†he shot her. However, in the ensuing struggle the victim struggled, resulting in stray shots hitting the boy’s head, arm and leg, killing him and also injuring Pichaya, aka Nong Mint, Sunan’s 13-year-old daughter. Both children were the offspring of a previous relationship between Sunan and a Japanese individual, so far unnamed. Siripong then maintained that he had dumped Ms Sunan’s body in a Pathum Thani wood and then taken the dead boy to his residence in Bang Bua Thong, where he cut up the body and allegedly disposed of it on the roadside. The dismembered boy’s body, minus the hands, however, were found the following day by a rubbish collector in an abandoned housing estate in Taling Chan; a fact Siripong was unable to explain. Siripong acknowledged his sorrow at having accidentally killed the boy as he had brought him up as his son after the end of to Sunan’ marriage to the Japanese husband. Following his first interrogation, and before being taken to the Taling Chan Police Station Siripong requested police not to handcuff him and to allow only the authorities to search his room. Prior to Siripong’s arrival and initial confession at the TNA office, police had maintained that the two bodies were those of Korean nationals, named as Lee Kwang-choo and Lee Jee-hun who may have been killed by fellow Koreans over a Bt10-million gambling debt. The first interrogator, Pol. Lt-General Worapong Chewpreecha, said the Siripong’s claims were not credible and the case would need further investigation; his colleague, Pol Maj Gen Chakatip, however, said that Siripong appeared to be the real murderer. Another police officer, Deputy Bangkok Police Chief Amnuay Nimmano, however, had initially declared before taking Siripong for interrogation at the Taling Chan Police Station that Siripong faces three charges: that of first degree murder, hiding corpses and illegally possessing a firearm. Police are continuing their investigation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faustian Posted October 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2009 More on this....it gets more and more bizarre......... http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2009/10/16/national/national_30114555.php Police dismiss 'gang link' to slayings By The Nation Published on October 16, 2009 Reports that killings were ordered by Yakuza just speculation, top cop says A senior investigator played down reports suggesting self-confessed murder suspect Siriphong Kanjananiwit may have shot dead a woman and her young son on the order of a criminal racket based in Japan as "speculation that police will not dance along [with]". Police Major-General Amnuay Nimmano said police would rely on evidence and not necessarily believe everything the suspect said. "If you ask me if the crime was ordered by a gang, I would say we will not conduct our investigation under the influence of media speculation. Otherwise there will be another gang tomorrow, and there would then be Yamaha or Honda gangs the following days," he added. "What I know is that the suspect committed the crimes. Whatever gang he belongs to, it's all media speculation." Newspaper articles and broadcast media on Wednesday cited statements from anonymous sources that Siriphong could have belonged to a local branch of the Japanese yakuza crime syndicate. The reports centred on tattoos on his arms and certain jobs in Japan, where Sunant Srisuwan, 38, worked before she was found shot dead and abandoned by a roadside in Pathum Thani earlier this month. In a press interview yesterday, Siriphong said he had his tattoos done at Sanam Luang. He also said he did not steal anything from Sunant after he shot her in the taxi. Siriphong was driving the taxi, with Sunant and two children aboard. They were Chow Makino, her five-year-old son and Phichaya, her 13-year-old daughter. Chow died in the shooting and Phichaya was injured. The suspect stuck to his story that he killed her in an outburst following her insistent requests for him to kill her two former husbands and a former boyfriend. "I possess good shooting skills, but I sprayed the bullets at the backseat [out of rage] because I was not looking. "If I really meant to kill her, one shot could simply do it. And Chow [would not have] died. If I could turn back time, I would have chosen not to meet her at all," he added. Siriphong is now in court custody at the Criminal Court after police authority to detain him for seven days after his arrest ended. Doctors at Rama IX hospital said Phichaya, who underwent surgery to remove bullet fragments from her shoulder on Wednesday, is recovering and her surgical wounds are healing. It will take another week to determine whether she can be allowed to go home. Before going to the court, Siriphong made a formal apology to Chow before his photo, saying he was sorry for killing him and would want to be the boy's father in the next life to take care of him to atone for his crime. Police attempted to set up an apology session for Siriphong on Wednesday before Sunant's photo, but he refused to comply. Police were trying to reach Chow's Japanese father but as of yesterday had failed to do so. A businessman who rented his taxi to Siriphong asked to visit him yesterday at Taling Chan police station. The man, who asked not to be named, said he knew Siriphong for five years and learned from his fellow cabbies that the suspect regularly gambled but showed no sign of brutality or a habitual bad temper. "He is a well-mannered man. I never thought he could have changed this much," the taxi owner said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkoktraveler Posted October 15, 2009 Report Share Posted October 15, 2009 At least he wants to be the kid' father in the next life.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted October 16, 2009 Report Share Posted October 16, 2009 Hi, "Before going to the court, Siriphong made a formal apology to Chow before his photo, saying he was sorry for killing him and would want to be the boy's father in the next life to take care of him to atone for his crime." Saw this on TV last night, thought it pretty pathetic to be honest. Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted October 16, 2009 Report Share Posted October 16, 2009 Maybe he wants to kill him again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cardinalblue Posted October 17, 2009 Report Share Posted October 17, 2009 I don't see anything usually or spectacular in these killings. Just another mundane domestic/relationship squabble and its consequences... Unfortunately, this seems to be so common these days in any major newspapers around the world, you read it and move on to the next story... How different is this case really from other domestic-family killings? The wife or GF and some family member(s) usually are on the short-end of some jealous hot-tempered, enraged husband or BF who goes off. Yeah, we say its so abnormal but it seems so common now (and maybe it was before) that its integrated into the range of human behavior.. CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallenda Posted October 17, 2009 Report Share Posted October 17, 2009 I don't see anything usually or spectacular in these killings. Just another mundane domestic/relationship squabble and its consequences... Unfortunately, this seems to be so common these days in any major newspapers around the world, you read it and move on to the next story... How different is this case really from other domestic-family killings? The wife or GF and some family member(s) usually are on the short-end of some jealous hot-tempered, enraged husband or BF who goes off. Yeah, we say its so abnormal but it seems so common now (and maybe it was before) that its integrated into the range of human behavior.. CB There's one aspect that wouldn't happen in our home countries: that the police reported initially that the victims were Koreans and they knew who they were, that then the suspect came forward and revealed that they were Thai, and that there's uncertainty on the part of the police which story is true. There's no sense in the story of any embarrassment on the part of the cops. Back home, it'd be humiliating for the police for this to happen, and them to be caught not knowing which was true. Here, it's expected that they don't have a clue. Policing is something they do on the side occassionally and don't take very seriously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted October 17, 2009 Report Share Posted October 17, 2009 I taught a Tourist Police class once. You're right - almost every one of them had some kind of business going on the side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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