Pro-Thaksin thug faces jail
The man caught on film attacking people protesting against caretaker Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra at CentralWorld could face more than 347 days of jail time because he had previously violated probation, a source from the Department of Corrections said yesterday.
Charan Chong-on, the man seen wearing sun-glasses while attacking anti-Thaksin protesters last month, reportedly broke his probation on six occasions, said the source, who asked not to be named. Charan was previously arrested and sentenced to jail for gambling. He later received probation, 347 days before his sentence ended. The probation office in Surat Thani, Charan's home province, told the department that he had broken probation in January. Probation officers had previously gone to his house only to discover that he had resumed his gambling and had not been home for a long time, the source said. They gave him a second chance, but he remained missing until his face appeared in the news media, the source said. Probation officials concluded that he had violated his probation by failing to report to the probation office, stepping out of the designated area and gambling, the source said.
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