A man jailed 33 years for killing student from rival school
The South Bangkok Criminal Court sentenced a man on Monday to 33 years in jail for killing a student from a rival school in 2004.
Supakij Insawang, 23, was found guilty of attacking 21year-old Chaiyaporn Jaroonpak on a bus with a 20.5 centimetre-long knife before throwing him out of the moving bus. Chaiyaporn died of a knife wound to his heart and head injuries caused by the fall. The brutal attack took place in the heart of Bangkok. Supakij was a former student at Rajamangala University of Technology TawanOk's Uthen Tawai campus, while Chaiyaporn was studying at the Pathumwan Institute of Technology. Students from these schools have engaged in frequent brawls. Two witnesses, who worked for the Monthien Hotel, testified against Supakij. They said Supakij deliberately moved past groups of passengers on the crowded bus to attack Chaiyaporn. Because Supakij provided some useful information during the trial, his original sentence of life imprisonment was commuted to 33 years in jail. The Nation
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