INTER-SCHOOL VIOLENCE
Three technical college students have been given life sentences for colluding in the premeditated murder of a student from a rival college. The students, from Pathumwan Institute of Technology in Bangkok, were initially sentenced to death by the Criminal Court yesterday.
Their lives were spared when the court took into account that they pleaded guilty.
Sutthinan Wanghomklang, 23, Mongkol Sripool, 25, and Chatree Juwanna, 26, were found guilty of using two .38 pistols and a knife to murder Benjapol Wiriyarampha, a second-year student at Rajamangala University of Technology's Uthen Thawai campus.
He was killed on Aug 26, 2006, in soi Lat Phrao 126, Wang Thonglang district.
The criminal lawsuit was pressed by Benjapol's mother, Tuanjit Wiriyarampha.
The court was told the three young men were on motorcycles when they attacked Benjapol and others on the night of Aug 26, 2006.
Benjapol was shot three times by Mongkol and six times by Chatree, before being stabbed several times by another person known only as Mr A, who is still at large.
The court ordered the three convicted men to pay a total of 4.33 million baht in compensation to Benjapol's mother.
Initially the court sentenced each of the three to death for colluding in a premeditated murder, two years in jail for unlicensed possession of a firearm, one year imprisonment for carrying a firearm in a public place and a 90-baht fine for carrying a knife in public place.
Three sentenced for hazing injury The Phra Nakhon Tai sub-district court yesterday gave two-month suspended jail terms to three 20-year-old students from Bangkok Rajamangala University of Technology for inflicting physical and mental injury on a freshman at their university.
The three students, Opas Timkhlongtham, Manop Koedsiri and Kirati Roeng-art, were found guilty of spraying paint on the back of Suradet Suwanrat, 20.
They then set fire to the paint with a lighter, causing serious burns.
The court initially sentenced the three to two months' imprisonment and 2,000 baht fine. Because they had relatively good academic records and family backgrounds the sentences were commuted to one-year suspended jail terms. They were also ordered to do 48 hours community services in the fields of public health and religion.
Before the ruling, the three students submitted to the court documents certifying to their participation in one of their university's dharma training programmes.
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