Train rapist sentenced to death
Published:
30/09/2014 at 01:53 PM
PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN
- The Hua Hin provincial court has sentenced a railway employee to death for
murder and aggravated rape of a young girl in July on a train heading to
Bangkok whose body was later found beside the railway track.
The court on Tuesday found Wanchai Sangkhao, the first
defendant in the case, guilty of several counts.
He was sentenced to death for murder, nine years in jail for
raping a girl under 15, five years in prison for stealing while on public
tranport vehicles at night, one year for hiding a body and six months for drug
abuse.
The gravest penalty of death prevails.
The court rejected Wanchai's claim for mercy because he had
confessed in an act of repentance. The court said Wanchai confessed because he
had no choice as the evidence against him was so strong. There were no grounds
for commutation of sentence.
Nattakorn Chamnarn, 19, the second defendant who was charged
with helping another person rape a girl under 15, confessed during the
investigation, but denied the charge in court.
Nattakorn was sentenced to six years in prison as an
accessory. Since he confessed during the investigation stage, the penalty was
commuted by a third to four years.
Wanchai, 22, a sleeper-car employee of the Railway of
Thailand, confessed to raping on July 5 a 13-year-old girl, a Mathayom 2
student at Satrinonthaburi School, while she was asleep in a bunk of a carriage
on the No.174 Nakhon Si Thammarat-Bangkok express train.
Wanchai subsequently threw her out the window, even though
she was still breathing. She was killed by the fall. Searchers later found her
body beside the rail track.
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