Mae Sot Murder Case confessed

DVB ( September 10,2003 )

The man who is accused of killing the Burmese girl, Ma Thandar Hlaing who was working at Ki Foung wool knitting factory in Mae Sot confessed to the local Thai police.

DVB’s Khaing Thazin reports :

The accused, a Thai national Ammon Suwanachoke, 40 worked at the factory as a guard. He was detained and questioned over the death of Ma Thandar Hlaing and he confessed on the 7 September at the police station in Maesod.

The accused was said to be infatuated with the victim but she was falling in love with one Burmese. He was aggrieved by this, gave her a motorbike ride and killed her. The accused denied the reports that he raped the victim before she was murdered.

The parents of the girl were not allowed to see the autopsy and on the 8th, they signed and handed over legal procedure to Law Society of Thailand in order to process on the trial.

Although it is quite rare for a Thai national to confess to the murder of a Burmese national like this, the local Thai authorities are still unable to solve the case of six Burmese workers who were killed in May at Maesod.