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Thu, 07/10/2014 - 13:08
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Police object to bail for rapist, murderer

BANGKOK, July 10 (TNA) - Police early Thursday took Wanchai Saengkhao, accused of the rape and murder of "Nong Kaem," to court and objected his temporary release on bail as they initially charged him on four counts including assault and murder, sexual assault, robbery, and drug abuse. Wanchai, 22, was taken by police in Pran Buri district of Prachuap Khiri Khan province to court in Hua Hin district. He was taken for a re-enactment of the crime at Wang Pong train station in Pran Buri on Wednesday. The 13-year-old girl victim had boarded a railway sleeper car in the southern province of Surat Thani with family members on Saturday bound for Bangkok. Her body was found early Tuesday morning and the suspected rapist was apprehended. Wanchai, employed by the State Railway of Thailand to make beds in sleeper carriages, reportedly told police that he took the girl from her bed, raped her and pushed her out of the running train. He also threw away her clothing and the sheet of her bed along the railway track between Wang Pong and Khao Tao stations in Hua Hin district. The initial autopsy at the Police General Hospital found that the victim had a wound in her head and scratches on her body. Meanwhile, police in Nakhon Si Thammarat searched a house owned by Jinda Pantarak, identified by Wanchai as the seller of the methamphetamine pills he consumed before committing the crime. Police found a .22 pistol and six cartridges inside Jinda's house. She reportedly told police she had sold the drug to Wanchai on two occasions. She was detained on charges of illegally possessing a firearm, and police said they would continue investigating her in relation to drug trafficking. (TNA)

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