Police arrest student finger cutters

News > Local News

Mutilated teen was mistaken for rival

Published: 26 Feb 2013 at 13.48
Online news: Local News

SAMUT PRAKAN - Police have arrested three students for involvement in a horrific attack on a 16-year-old student they mistook for a member of a rival gang.

Bank, a first year vocational student whose full name withheld, sustained multiple slash wounds to his body. The tendons in his left shoulder were cut, disabling his left arm, and six of his fingers were chopped off. Doctors were able to reattach only four of them.

Police said they apprehended Adisak, Attapon, and Seksan, all third year students at the Bangkok Institution of Technology (BIT) whose names were also withheld.

This article is older than 60 days, which we reserve for our premium members only.You can subscribe to our premium member subscription, here.

Forum

Your comments

faceless
Post : 234
Send message

Discussion 13 : 27 Feb 2013 at 05.2613
Post this to my Facebook
Easy to blame these kids and rightly so. They are responsible for serious violence.

But they didn't reach this crazy mindset and propensity on their own. Take a hard look at Thai culture and what has influenced them.
Like dislike 7 people liked / 0 people disliked this comment
faceless
Post : 234
Send message

Discussion 12 : 27 Feb 2013 at 05.2612
Post this to my Facebook
Easy to blame these kids and rightly so. They are responsible for serious violence.

But they didn't reach this crazy mindset and propensity on their own. Take a hard look at Thai culture and what has influenced them.
Like dislike 4 people liked / 0 people disliked this comment
jgriff
Post : 402
Send message

Discussion 11 : 27 Feb 2013 at 02.0411
Post this to my Facebook
Bank's story went viral on the internet last Saturday after a Facebook user "Coke Ei d"' wrote about it and posted several graphic images on the Facebook page of popular TV news commentator Sorayuth Suthassanachinda, demanding that police take immediate action.
So we are led to believe that there would of been no police action unless it was posted on facebook?
Like dislike 7 people liked / 0 people disliked this comment
Claude108
Post : 40
Send message

Discussion 10 : 26 Feb 2013 at 22.0310
Post this to my Facebook
Thailand is a country in steep decline, bound for the bottom of the 3rd world. It would take ten Lee Kuan Yews to turn things around. As it is, there's not a single person in Thailand with the same mettle as LKY.
Like dislike 14 people liked / 2 people disliked this comment
tomo
Post : 172
Send message

Discussion 9 : 26 Feb 2013 at 22.029
Post this to my Facebook
And the Violence continues with the youths of Thailand.This young man went through an extremely horrific ordeal.And i see the BP hasnt reported about the old lady in her shop who was so violently punched many times in the face,almost senseless.It was all caught on camera and showen on todays news.Im sorry but i blame the police and courts for not giving long time sentencing.This is surely out of hand.And most decent Thais also dont want to hear this.Wake up Thailand and hammer these people,bigtime.
Like dislike 15 people liked / 1 people disliked this comment
drsmith
Post : 1,571
Send message

Discussion 8 : 26 Feb 2013 at 21.198
Post this to my Facebook
If this is not the mark of Thailand slipping deeper into the unlawful and uneducated third world, I don't know what is. For all the arrogant Thai's out there and those censoring these posts, this is exactly what YOUR country is turning into thanks to ZERO investment in education, social reform and strict laws. When you have no law and order, people are not afraid to commit heinous crimes such as this. These perpetrators should spend the rest of their lives in prison, but they won't do any time and will be back to do this again to someone else.
Like dislike 27 people liked / 2 people disliked this comment
kasper
Post : 602
Send message

Discussion 7 : 26 Feb 2013 at 20.367
Post this to my Facebook
The parents will turn their kids in after an agreement has been made, so noone will be going to jail. The lack of justice is precisely why most Thais are not worried about the consequences of their actions - there aren't any!
Like dislike 33 people liked / 1 people disliked this comment
bonzo
Post : 914
Send message

Discussion 6 : 26 Feb 2013 at 20.096
Post this to my Facebook
Police said the teenagers who were arrested admitted that they attacked the wrong person and apologised to him.

- So, if it had been the “right” person, then mutilation would have been OK?

Anyway, I’m sure the “apology” made all the difference.

They added that they were angry because their rivals had earlier thrown explosive devices.

- Oh, do please p*** off!
Like dislike 33 people liked / 1 people disliked this comment
felixqui
Post : 614
Send message

Discussion 5 : 26 Feb 2013 at 19.255
Post this to my Facebook
Now, these are the sort of violent, worthless and evil people who do deserve a death penalty.
They are totally unlike the non-harming people that Thailand's esteemed deputy PM in charge of photo ops with large piles of illegal drugs wants to execute.

Where is the justice: executing people who have caused deliberate and serious harm to others, or executing people providing a much demanded service to willing adult customers?
Like dislike 22 people liked / 8 people disliked this comment
Worzel
Post : 167
Send message

Discussion 4 : 26 Feb 2013 at 19.164
Post this to my Facebook
Establish a penal battalion, posted to the south. Armed with batons to patrol at night.

Send all these 'wanna be' hard men from Bangkok there to learn the error of their ways.
Like dislike 40 people liked / 2 people disliked this comment