VIDEO of Fatal Stabbing Outside Taipan in Patong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hn6TsoSx2g&feature=youtu.be
PHUKET: An Australian expat accused of murder will reappear briefly at Phuket Provincial Court on Tuesday as part of the process leading to his trial.
Mark Pendlebury, 59, who runs a boating business, was chased, beaten, kicked and stomped on in a so-called ''dog pack attack'' in Patong earlier this month in which a nightclub security guard was knifed.
Independent video footage from a Patong council security camera substantiates Mr Pendlebury's account of what took place about 12.30am on March 11 at a line of tuk-tuks near the Taipan nightclub.
Footage clearly shows Mr Pendlebury pausing on the opposite side of Rat-U-Tit 200 Pi Road, seeing an eviction taking place at Taipan, moving to record the event with his mobile telephone from the public roadway, being challenged by one person, then pursued by several people along the outer side of the row of tuk-tuks.
Mr Pendlebury said he was beaten to the ground and forced to fight for his life.
Photographs taken later show serious facial bruising, wounds to his skull and indentation marks from the sole of a boot on his forehead.
It is understood he has been approached for compensation by the family of Taipan security guard Sanya Khluewaengmon, 26, who died in Patong Hospital about 90 minutes after the incident.
Reports that Mr Pendlebury made a drunken, unprovoked attack on Khun Sanya have been disproven by the the security camera footage and rejected as laughable by people who were with Mr Pendlebury at a Patong Rotary Club meeting before the attack.
After the Rotary meeting, Mr Pendlebury escorted home Danish disabled surfer Frederick Aakerlund, 48. ''He was worried that someone in a wheelchair could make an easy target for thugs at that time of night in Patong,'' said Mr Aakerlund, who had previously been beaten by a gang in broad daylight in Patong in January.
Mr Pendlebury later told friends that he tried to record the eviction with the camera in his telephone because he wanted to prevent the people involved being beaten up.
The row of tuk-tuks near Taipan is where German expat Kurt Trotnow, 53, was beaten into a coma in a ''dog pack attack'' one night in 2011 over whether a fare should be 100 baht or 200 baht.
He needed several operations on his skull on Phuket and in Germany. No security cameras recorded the attack and no charges were ever laid.
Phuketwan recorded at the time: ''The police report says that Mr Trotnow was drunk and attacked the driver of the tuk-tuk first before he in turn was beaten and left senseless, lying in the roadway.''
News of that attack only came to public knowledge days later when a copy of the police report was delivered to the German honorary consul. It would have been out of character for Mr Trotnow, who had chronic health problems, to be drunk or aggressive, friends said.
The Patong police investigator in this month's murder case has talked to three security guards, and the wife and the mother of Khun Sanya.
Mr Pendlebury has made a full statement to police at Kathu Police Station in the presence of his lawyer.
Police have since told Phuketwan that tuk-tuk drivers will only be questioned about the matter if Mr Pendlebury makes accusations about them.
A private detective who checked the area around the tuk-tuk queue near Taipan counted 11 security cameras that could have recorded what took place that night.
Mr Pendlebury said two tourists - possibly Indian or from the Middle East - intervened that night and saved his life.
He remains on bail of 500,000 baht and will be required to appear at Phuket Provincial Court every 12 days until police pass the case to prosecutors and a decision is made to proceed.
VIDEO of Fatal Stabbing Outside Taipan in Patong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hn6TsoSx2g&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hn6TsoSx2g&feature=youtu.be
PHUKET: An Australian expat accused of murder will reappear briefly at Phuket Provincial Court on Tuesday as part of the process leading to his trial.
Mark Pendlebury, 59, who runs a boating business, was chased, beaten, kicked and stomped on in a so-called ''dog pack attack'' in Patong earlier this month in which a nightclub security guard was knifed.
Independent video footage from a Patong council security camera substantiates Mr Pendlebury's account of what took place about 12.30am on March 11 at a line of tuk-tuks near the Taipan nightclub.
Footage clearly shows Mr Pendlebury pausing on the opposite side of Rat-U-Tit 200 Pi Road, seeing an eviction taking place at Taipan, moving to record the event with his mobile telephone from the public roadway, being challenged by one person, then pursued by several people along the outer side of the row of tuk-tuks.
Mr Pendlebury said he was beaten to the ground and forced to fight for his life.
Photographs taken later show serious facial bruising, wounds to his skull and indentation marks from the sole of a boot on his forehead.
It is understood he has been approached for compensation by the family of Taipan security guard Sanya Khluewaengmon, 26, who died in Patong Hospital about 90 minutes after the incident.
Reports that Mr Pendlebury made a drunken, unprovoked attack on Khun Sanya have been disproven by the the security camera footage and rejected as laughable by people who were with Mr Pendlebury at a Patong Rotary Club meeting before the attack.
After the Rotary meeting, Mr Pendlebury escorted home Danish disabled surfer Frederick Aakerlund, 48. ''He was worried that someone in a wheelchair could make an easy target for thugs at that time of night in Patong,'' said Mr Aakerlund, who had previously been beaten by a gang in broad daylight in Patong in January.
Mr Pendlebury later told friends that he tried to record the eviction with the camera in his telephone because he wanted to prevent the people involved being beaten up.
The row of tuk-tuks near Taipan is where German expat Kurt Trotnow, 53, was beaten into a coma in a ''dog pack attack'' one night in 2011 over whether a fare should be 100 baht or 200 baht.
He needed several operations on his skull on Phuket and in Germany. No security cameras recorded the attack and no charges were ever laid.
Phuketwan recorded at the time: ''The police report says that Mr Trotnow was drunk and attacked the driver of the tuk-tuk first before he in turn was beaten and left senseless, lying in the roadway.''
News of that attack only came to public knowledge days later when a copy of the police report was delivered to the German honorary consul. It would have been out of character for Mr Trotnow, who had chronic health problems, to be drunk or aggressive, friends said.
The Patong police investigator in this month's murder case has talked to three security guards, and the wife and the mother of Khun Sanya.
Mr Pendlebury has made a full statement to police at Kathu Police Station in the presence of his lawyer.
Police have since told Phuketwan that tuk-tuk drivers will only be questioned about the matter if Mr Pendlebury makes accusations about them.
A private detective who checked the area around the tuk-tuk queue near Taipan counted 11 security cameras that could have recorded what took place that night.
Mr Pendlebury said two tourists - possibly Indian or from the Middle East - intervened that night and saved his life.
He remains on bail of 500,000 baht and will be required to appear at Phuket Provincial Court every 12 days until police pass the case to prosecutors and a decision is made to proceed.
VIDEO of Fatal Stabbing Outside Taipan in Patong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hn6TsoSx2g&feature=youtu.be
Police investigator only talked with 3 security guards and wife and mother of Sanya ( why? were wife and mother at the scene ?)
Police investigator not talked/ interrogated the tuk tuk drivers present at the time of the scene! Why is a police investigator not doing that? Is it not his job to do, collecting as much evidence and statements as possible?
Posted by Kurt on March 21, 2015 13:35