A man was beaten to death and left to die on
a pile of trash just inside these doors.
Boonlua Chatree
A Thai man arrested on petty drug charges died in
police custody after being beaten by 10 fellow inmates.
The swollen, lifeless body of Karan Kanpakdee, 28,
was discovered around noon March 4 in a second-floor Pattaya Police
Station cell. He’d been dead for about five hours.
Security camera footage showed about 10 inmates
beating Karan around 2 a.m. that morning, but police did nothing to stop
the assault. After the attack, Karan was separated into a different cell
where he later died.
The Kampangphet man had been arrested for allegedly
consuming illegal drugs.
Lt. Col. Tarathep Tupanit said a committee will
review why police on duty at the time did not intervene in the fight or
care for the injured man afterward.
Meanwhile, all 10 of the dead man’s cellmates will be charged with
his death, Tarathep said.
