Cabbie gets death for killing lover
By KESINEE TAENGKHIAO
The Nation 2011-08-11
The Appeals Court yesterday upheld the death sentence on a taxi driver who killed his lover and her son before dismembering the boy's body and disposing of it, in October 2009.
Siripong Kanchananiwit, 43, appeared calm and said he accepted his fate and wouldn't appeal further nor seek a royal pardon.
The cabby was convicted of a capital crime in September last year for shooting to death Sunan Srisuwan, 38, and Sho Makino, 5, while driving them from Suvarnabhumi Airport to their Ratchadaphisek condominium home.
He also shot and wounded Sunan's daughter Pitachaya Jong-ngamwilai, 13, in the same taxi, for which he was handed a life sentence for attempted murder.
He later stole Sunan's valuables worth over Bt200,000, for which he was charged with night-time armed robbery and ordered to serve a six-year jail term. He then took the girl to his condo in Nonthaburi's Bang Bua Thong district and molested her, which got him two- and six-year jail terms.
For dumping the woman's body in Pathum Thani, dismembering the boy's body and hiding the parts in Bangkok's Taling Chan area to conceal the crime and carrying a firearm in public, he was sentenced to two years in jail.
The Appeals Court considered Pitchaya's eyewitness testimony as solid and found no grounds to overturn the lower court's verdict and sentencing.
Siripong said he had confessed all along and was ready to get punished. He also prayed and meditated during detention.
The case came to light when the boy's body parts were discovered and Siripong surrendered along with the gun a day later.
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Death Sentence Upheld for Double-murder Convict
Tan Network 2011-08-11
The Appeals Court upholds the death sentence for the cab driver who brutally murdered a five-year-old boy and the boy's mother.
The defendant has accepted the court's decision and will not seek pardon.
The Appeals Court has upheld the death sentence handed down by the Criminal Court for taxi driver Siripong Kanchananiwit who killed and dismembered the body of five-year-old Sho Makino and the boy's mother Sunan Srisuwan.
Siripong has been charged with first degree murder and premeditated murder as the court has reviewed the evidence and found that he had planned to kill the mother and the boy.
Siripong said after the court read out sentence that he will not seek a royal pardon and accepts the death penalty to repent his crime and sins which he has been doing in his cell by praying everyday.
On October 10, 2009, Siripong shot and killed Sunan and her son Sho as well as injured her daughter Pichaya Jongngamwilai, who was later kept prisoner at an apartment in Nonthaburi's Bang Bua Thong area and abused by the defendant.
Siripong had a relationship with Sunan and claimed that he killed her because she was pressuring him to murder her Japanese ex-husband and because she had been having an affair with another man.
Siripong stole 200,000 baht worth of cash and valuables from Sunan before dismembering the boy's body and dumping it in black plastic bags in attempt to conceal his crime.
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