About to detain a young man who killed and stole a car and gold – Parents bring food to visit

Chiang Mai, Police are preparing to take a young man who killed a car thief and robbed gold to jail. The man admitted that he 'repented' for what he did. The mother reiterated her previous statement that she was afraid her son would do something rash and wanted to encourage him. She is preparing to ask for forgiveness from the family of the deceased. Nipitphon or Opal, the suspect who tricked Lt. Suthep, a Grab driver, into being killed because he intended to steal a car to rob gold in a famous shopping mall in Chiang Mai, is still being held at Mae Ping Police Station. He had the opportunity to eat rice porridge and braised eggs that his father, mother, and younger sister brought to visit him. After visiting, the suspect's mother spoke to reporters again, saying that when she visited her son, she did not say much, but she patted his back to encourage him, and told him to speak up to face the truth, be patient, and not to think rashly. As for asking for forgiveness from the family of the deceased, the mothe r confirmed that she had already contacted them to express her condolences and was preparing to ask for forgiveness on her son's behalf. In the morning, Mr. Nipitphon was taken out of the detention cell by officers to be taken for a physical and mental examination at Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital. Before getting into the vehicle, reporters tried to ask the suspect whether he felt guilty about what he had done and whether he wanted to apologize to the family of the deceased. At that time, the suspect just looked down and did not answer anything. While the suspect was sitting in the detention vehicle, reporters tried to ask the same question again. This time, Mr. Nipitphon, the suspect, did not answer the question but nodded in response to every question from the media. The latest information is that after the police took the suspect to the hospital for a physical and mental examination, they will take him in for further questioning about the murder and car theft case and the murder of the driver at Phu Ping Police Station before taking him back to Mae Ping Police Station to wait to be sent to detention in the afternoon. They also emphasized that the legal proceedings are divided into 2 areas because the suspect is guilty of stealing a car, killing another person, violating the Firearms Act, and robbing gold, resulting in a total of 9 charges. The total amount of gold stolen by the suspects was 32 gold necklaces, weighing a total of 80 baht, worth around 3 million baht. As for their behavior after committing the gold robbery, they parked the vehicle used in the robbery at the foot of Doi Suthep, then walked back to get their own car parked on the other side of Doi Suthep, and drove around to sell the gold to gold shops in Doi Saket and San Kamphaeng districts, a total of 7 necklaces weighing 10 baht, and hid the rest at their residence in Doi Saket district, both buried around the house and hidden in the ceiling. The commander of Region 5 stated that officials seized only 25 gold necklaces weighing 70 baht . They are currently collecting the remaining gold. The information obtained from the suspect is that when he sold the gold, he got more than 300,000 baht. He transferred some of the money to his sister's account. The rest was kept as capital for his escape, which he used to buy a plane ticket to Suvarnabhumi and a connecting flight to Japan. If he had not been arrested, the suspect had written a detailed escape and living plan, such as calculating the cost of living in Japan for 15 days at 80,000 baht, and also planning to stay in Georgia for another year, for which he had prepared 720,000 baht for expenses. Source: Thai News Agency