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Provincial police 'covering up officer's assault'
Provincial police 'covering up officer's assault'

By Heamakarn Sricharatchanya
A karaoke singer travelled 100 kilometres from Saraburi province to Bangkok to ask for justice from National Police Chief Seripisuth Temiyavej, alleging that a drunken police officer and his two friends chopped off her arm after she refused their order to sit with them at a food shop.

The 24-year-old Supansa Wichanand, with her right arm amputated and broken leg in a cast, arrived at the Royal Thai Police office on Wednesday to hand a letter to Pol Gen Seripisuth. Her petition asked the national police chief to give her a fair hearing and justice.

In the letter, she accused Pol Lance Corporal Nirut Thammasap, a squad leader of Ban Mo district police, and his two companions for putting her in this condition with a brutal, late-night attack almost a month ago.

Ms Supansa, a factory worker who came to Supanburi after a fight with her family a few days earlier, claimed that she had filed a complaint to the police in Ban Mo district but they failed to act.

According to police spokesman Pol Lt Gen Ronarong Yangyuen, Ms Supansa, a singer at the Nong Reejah Karaoke karaoke pub in Ban Mo district, was approached by the three men when she was having dinner alone at a food stall after work on Feb 25. The three were drinking alcohol when they spotted her.

According to the victim, the three came over to her table and verbally harassed her. Unhappy with their actions, she scolded them before walking out of the stall to her parked motorcycle outside.

The three men followed her and grabbed her motorcycle key. They told her to go sing with them in a karaoke room in the pub but she refused.

Pol L/C Nirut then promised her that he would not do anything to harm her. He showed her his police identification card, a walkie-talkie, and a gun. But Ms Supansa still refused to follow them and asked for her key back.

The three yelled back at her angrily. Pol L/C Nirut called her a "bitch," she claimed, and shouted after her that she "would get what she was asking for."

Ms Supansa got on her motorcycle heading home. She got about two kilometres from the food stall before she realised that she was being chased by the three men on two motorbikes.

Nirat Kongtham, 23, then raised a Sparta (parang, or machete-like knife) and chopped off her right arm, she claimed. Pol L/C Nirut and his other friend Prasarn Boondok, 25, together with Mr Nirat then fled the scene.

Ms Supansa said she was trying to control her motorcycle using her left arm while the right arm was bleeding. She could only go 15 metres away before losing control and fell on to the road. Her right leg, which was caught in a wheel, was broken into three pieces.

Ms Supansa, a native of Ang Thong province, was rushed to hospital by villagers. She filed a complaint at Ban Mo police station the next day. Police investigator who took the case claimed the she had "lost self-possession and was not in a position to testify."

She claimed police there tried to treat the case as an accident.

After Ms Supansa’s visit, Pol Gen Seripisuth set up a police team to investigate the case and sacked Pol L/C Nirut on Thursday. He also ordered the superintendent of Ban Mo and police in charge of the case to be transferred to another unit.

Police charged the three men with attempted murder and causing severe bodily harm for others. All three denied the charges.

The three went to a police station in Saraburi to officially register their innocent plea on Thursday. Pol L/C Nirut claimed that he was not involved in the case and would testify in court while Mr Nirat, the man who was claimed to have cut off the arm, claimed that Ms Supansa was the one asking to join their table and later had an accident herself.

“It was her own accident,” said Mr Nirat, who claimed what Ms Supansa said was nothing but a lie. “She (Ms Supansa) came to us, asking us to pay her 500,000 baht or else she would file a complaint with police.”

Dr Danai Turiyanont, director of Phra Phuttabat hospital in Saraburi, refuted Mr Nirat’s claim in a radio interview Friday morning. He said Ms Supansa’s wound resulted from a cut from a sharp object, which was unlikely to be caused by an accident that usually leaves bruises and cracks of bones.

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