Police to check whether remains are lawyer's
A forensics team is investigating bones found in a waste dump in Ratchaburi where the body of Muslim lawyer Somchai Neelapaijit was believed to have been taken and incinerated.
"At the moment we have bones that we believe belong to a human being," Khunying Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand, acting forensic science institution head, said. If the bones are human, they will be sent for DNA testing to see if there is a match with Somchai, Pornthip said. Somchai, a prominent lawyer, went missing on March 12, 2004 after he disclosed police mistreatment of his clients who were accused of being involved in a raid on a military camp in Narathiwat in which four soldiers were killed and more than 300 weapons stolen. The bones were found in a dump in Huaychinnasee municipality of Ratchaburi province.
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