PHUKET: A security guard at a Patong disco who claimed he was assaulted by an off-duty policeman went to the Phuket Damrungtam complaints office yesterday to formally register his grievance.
In a more detailed account of what allegedly took place outside Patong's Hollywood disco about 2am on June 10, Kamonchai Singkead, 29, told Phuket's ombudsman that he was on duty for checking weapons that night.
When a group of men approached - allegedly Lieutenant Sorapong Chookeaw and some colleagues in plain clothes - he was beaten up.
Told to kneel to deliver an apology while waiing, Khun Kamonchai said he was kicked in the head then assaulted with a beer bottle and an ashtray, inflicting wounds to his face and breaking two teeth.
The complaints office was told that friends took him to Phang Nga and Thap Put Hospital for fear that police would catch up with him later if he was taken to Patong Hospital.
Colonel Chaiwat Auikam, the Commander of Kathu Police Station, which oversees Patong, has transferred Lieutenant Sorapong to Phuket City Police Station for 30 days while the case is investigated.
He has urged observers and parties on both sides to keep an open mind about what had happened.
About 100 friends and staff colleagues protested on Thursday outside Hollywood in Patong's Soi Bangla tourist walking street about the alleged assault.
In a more detailed account of what allegedly took place outside Patong's Hollywood disco about 2am on June 10, Kamonchai Singkead, 29, told Phuket's ombudsman that he was on duty for checking weapons that night.
When a group of men approached - allegedly Lieutenant Sorapong Chookeaw and some colleagues in plain clothes - he was beaten up.
Told to kneel to deliver an apology while waiing, Khun Kamonchai said he was kicked in the head then assaulted with a beer bottle and an ashtray, inflicting wounds to his face and breaking two teeth.
The complaints office was told that friends took him to Phang Nga and Thap Put Hospital for fear that police would catch up with him later if he was taken to Patong Hospital.
Colonel Chaiwat Auikam, the Commander of Kathu Police Station, which oversees Patong, has transferred Lieutenant Sorapong to Phuket City Police Station for 30 days while the case is investigated.
He has urged observers and parties on both sides to keep an open mind about what had happened.
About 100 friends and staff colleagues protested on Thursday outside Hollywood in Patong's Soi Bangla tourist walking street about the alleged assault.
There was a video of some of this incident doing the rounds on Facebook yesterday. Totally disgusting behaviour by the policeman. He deserves to be charged and put in jail based on the contents of the video. I wonder if he will .....
Posted by Discover Thainess on June 13, 2015 10:49