Building code violation: Chuwit to pay Bt1.2-million fine

The Appeal Court yesterday upheld a lower court's ruling that massage-parlour tycoon-turned-politician Chuwit Kamolvisit should pay a Bt1.2-million fine for making illegal changes to a Bangkok massage parlour. Davis Diamond Star and Chuwit were charged for breaching the Building Control Act 1979 by breaking planning approval in the construction of the Honolulu Massage Parlour in the Huai Khwang area. - The Nation.

Drug bust: Policeman jailed for 27 years

A Samsen policeman has been sentenced to 27 years in prison and handed a Bt1.2 million fine for dealing in amphetamines.

Ratchada Criminal Court sentenced Sergeant Vathanyu Phunong-ong, of Samsen police, for possession of 'speed' pills with intent to supply. Undercover officers arrested Vathanyu, who was in uniform, at a drug deal at a Dusit petrol station earlier this month. He had 173 pills in his pocket. - The Nation.

Murder: Girl, 12, dies in knife attack

A 12-year-old girl was found dead in her bathroom with knife wounds to her throat and head early yesterday morning.

Naruenart Bodhiprasert was lying naked in a pool of blood when her unemployed single mother Nattaya Lekbai returned home from a night out at around 3am.

Lt-General Liang Huiprasert, who heads the Police Hospital's Institute of Forensic Medicine, said tests to find out whether Naruenart had been raped would take about a week.

Police said there was no evidence of burglary and nothing was stolen except a mobile phone. At the time of the attack, Naruenart was alone in her house in Bangkok's Bang Khen district.

Security guards at Sinsap Nakhon Village where the girl was staying said Naruenart was seen in a telephone booth at around 10.30pm while a group of teenagers drank nearby. Yesterday police were trying to locate the teenagers. - The Nation.