PHUKET: The Phuket bar worker who slugged an Italian tourist over the head with a golf club has undertaken to surrender to police, a senior officer in the west coast nightlife outlet of Patong said today.
Colonel Kittipong Klaikeaw said that four people had already been interviewed over the assault, including the foreign owner of a bar in Soi Seadragon, a lane of bars that runs off Patong's popular night walking street, Soi Bangla.
The incident occurred about 4am on October 17
''The people we have interviewed say that the Italian man was drunk and was trying to get into a bar in Soi Seadragon,'' Colonel Kittipong said. ''The security people on the door thought he was far too drunk and turned him away.
''The man then threatened the security guards with a chair,'' the colonel said. ''He was advised by friends not to do it. But then he broke a bottle on the chair, and that's what triggered the assault.''
Colonel Kittipong said the identity of the man who used the golf club was known. He was not, as first thought, one of the security guards, but a tout.
The colonel said he understood that the Italian man, who needed stitches in a head wound and was admitted to the intensive care unit at a Phuket City hospital, was recovering and would be interviewed.
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The incident occurred about 4am on October 17
''The people we have interviewed say that the Italian man was drunk and was trying to get into a bar in Soi Seadragon,'' Colonel Kittipong said. ''The security people on the door thought he was far too drunk and turned him away.
''The man then threatened the security guards with a chair,'' the colonel said. ''He was advised by friends not to do it. But then he broke a bottle on the chair, and that's what triggered the assault.''
Colonel Kittipong said the identity of the man who used the golf club was known. He was not, as first thought, one of the security guards, but a tout.
The colonel said he understood that the Italian man, who needed stitches in a head wound and was admitted to the intensive care unit at a Phuket City hospital, was recovering and would be interviewed.
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Now this is good news, the tout (identity known by police already) that used a golf club to injure an Italian tourist has undertaken to surrender to the Police ... just wonder how much this is going to cost the Italian ;-)
Posted by Bjarne on October 25, 2011 12:35