Suspected serial killer Nirut Sonkhamhan hanged himself in prison on Wednesday morning

Suspected serial killer Nirut Sonkhamhan hanged himself in prison on Wednesday morning, but the events leading to his suicide were set in motion last month, when the Mirror Foundation noticed an odd pattern of disappearances in the South.RIGHT Convenience store surveillance camera footage shows Nirut Sonkhamhanwalking in tobuycoffee,which police believed he would mix with insecticide and give to his victims. LEFT Patanapong Sriphinphro, head of the CSD’sSubdivision 5,wholed the investigation.The organisation, dedicated to finding missing persons, noticed that several pickup truck drivers had vanished under ominously similar circumstances.The...

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Police crackdown on illicit drugs at Na Khon Si Thammarat prison

The police confiscated more than 1,700 methamphetamine pills and almost 300 mobile phones in a pre-dawn raid at Na Khon Si Thammarat prison. The deputy director–general of the Corrections Department, Sophon Thitithammarak, and Nakhon Si Thammrat Governor Wirote Jiwarangsan told a news conference on Sunday that the early morning raid by 650 commandos and police officers at the prison found 280 mobile phones and tablets, 1,700 pills of methamphetamine and 50 grammes of crystal methamphetamine, also known as ice, in the prison. Ten sets of drug paraphernalia, gambling equipment, knives and 47,000 baht in cash were also seized. Mr Sophon said he would propose Sunday’s operation to suppress illegal drugs and forbidden items in Nakhon Si Thammarat as a model for other prisons nationwide. Meanwhile,...

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Police crackdown on illicit drugs at Na Khon Si Thammarat prison

The police confiscated more than 1,700 methamphetamine pills and almost 300 mobile phones in a pre-dawn raid at Na Khon Si Thammarat prison. The deputy director–general of the Corrections Department, Sophon Thitithammarak, and Nakhon Si Thammrat Governor Wirote Jiwarangsan told a news conference on Sunday that the early morning raid by 650 commandos and police officers at the prison found 280 mobile phones and tablets, 1,700 pills of methamphetamine and 50 grammes of crystal methamphetamine, also known as ice, in the prison. Ten sets of drug paraphernalia, gambling equipment, knives and 47,000 baht in cash were also seized. Mr Sophon said he would propose Sunday’s operation to suppress illegal drugs and forbidden items in Nakhon Si Thammarat as a model for other prisons nationwide. Meanwhile,...

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Pattaya Drug Dealing Brit-Cum English Teacher Caught

Pol. Capt. Suphan Jaiharn, Deputy Inspector said that he knew that Mr. Steven Palmer was an English teacher at Singsamut school and was selling ya-ice to customers in Pattaya. Mr. Steven Palmer confessed that he teaches English at famous school but during school holidays he didn’t teach and stayed in a house that he had bought in Pattaya. He bought the ya-ice from a friend in Bangkok, at first he bought only for personal use but later he ran out of money so he had to sell the house and move to a rental room and Mr.Steven started selling ya-ice to beer-bar prostitutes and tourists in Pattaya. Mr.Steven is charged with sales and consumption of crystal methamphetamine. He has been detained at Pattaya police station and will to be prosecuted according to the Thai l...

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British terror supergrass sentence cut by two years

jailed British terrorist has had his sentence cut by two years in a supergrass deal after giving evidence about an al Qaeda-linked “martyrdom” plot in New York, it was revealed today. Former teacher Saajid Badat was jailed for 13 years in 2005 for plotting with shoe bomber Richard Reid to blow up a transatlantic airliner in 2001 in what an Old Bailey judge said was a “wicked and inhuman” plot. He has now had his term reduced by two years under the first “supergrass” deal involving a terror convict, after providing intelligence to US prosecutors investigating an alleged plot to blow up the New York subway on the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attack. Details of the deal — kept secret for more than two years — were revealed today by the Crown Prosecution Service as a trial of the alleged...

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Western embassies targeted in Afghanistan attacks

 Gunmen have launched multiple attacks across the Afghan capital Kabul. Western embassies in the heavily-guarded, central diplomatic area are understood to be among the targets as well as the parliament building in the west. There are reports that up to seven different locations have been hit. The Taliban has admitted responsibility, saying their main targets were the British and German embassies. There is no word at this stage on any casualti...

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Taliban free hundreds from Pakistan prison

Hundreds of prisoners are believed to have escaped from a jail in northwest Pakistan after it was attacked by anti-government fighters armed with guns and rocket-propelled grenades. Some of those who escaped from the facility in the town of Bannu, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, early on Sunday morning were "militants", an intelligence official told the Reuters news agency. "Dozens of militants attacked Bannu's Central Jail in the early hours of the morning, and more 300 prisoners have escaped," Mir Sahib Jan, the official, said. In Depth   Profile: Pakistani Taliban "There was intense gunfire, and rocket-propelled grenades were also used." Many of those who escaped following the raid were convicted Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) fighters,...

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Bo Xilai's political death knell has sounded across China as newspaper front pages and hourly news bulletins trumpeted his disgrace and his wife's detention for the suspected murder of the Briton Neil Heywood.

Bo Xilai, right, with his wife, Gu Kailai, who is suspected of killing Neil Heywood. Photograph: AP The scandal that toppled the high-profile former leadership contender is the biggest political upheaval in China since the general secretary Zhao Ziyang was ousted following the Tiananmen democracy protests in 1989. It comes months before a once-a-decade leadership transition.The official party newspaper, People's Daily, urged people to rally around the top leadership, saying Bo had damaged the cause and image of both party and state. But while investigations into the couple are ongoing, news coverage also sought to draw a line under events,...

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Indonesia on tsunami alert after quake

 Indonesia has issued a tsunami warning after an 8.6 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Sumatra, triggering concern across the Indian Ocean region. The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake occurred at 2.38pm local time. The epicentre was 434km south-west of Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh province, and occurred at a depth of 23km. The survey initially recorded the earthquake as 8.9 magnitude, but later downgraded it to 8.6. More   Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono downplayed the threat of a tsunami. He stressed that no damage had been reported so far. The government dispatched the head of the country’s disaster management agency to Banda Aceh. “[The] early warning system is working well,” Mr Yudhoyono told reporters at a press conference in Jakarta where...

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