Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Thai Appeals Court Upholds Death Sentence for Train Child Killer



On Monday the Thai Appeals Court upheld the lower courts decision to issue the death sentence to the man who last year raped and murdered a 13 year old girl on a Bangkok bound sleeper train, reports The Nation.

Bangkok Train Station. Credit: Thomas Leuthard (Flickr)
Wanchai Saengkhao, 23 was working on the overnight train from Nakhon Si Thammarat

on July 5th 2014. He attacked the girl on the sleeping berth, before throwing her off the train while still alive.

The verdict was heard yesterday at Prachuap Khiri Khan’s Hua Hin Provincial Court. 

Wanchai can file an appeal within 30 days. He had requested a lighter sentence, saying he had confessed and repented. 

The Appeals Court said he would have received the same sentence without his confession, arguing he only confessed due to such solid incriminating evidence against him, and not out of any genuine remorse for his actions. 

Read the full story here and here.

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