Winstone re-enacts e-mailing
Police yesterday took Alexander Winstone, the British man who confessed to sending extortion emails to Tesco in London to re-enact the crime at an Internet cafe off Sukhumvit Road.
Winstone, 36, was arrested on Thursday night at an Internet cafe on Sukhumvit Soi 4 (Soi Nana Tai). He was taken to another cafe on Soi Nana Tai, the Connected Square, to show police how he wrote and sent the e-mails. Connected Square is one of five Internet cafes Winstone used to send messages to top executives of Tesco in Britain, threatening to poison food for sale at Lotus superstores if they did not pay him £2 million (Bt136 million). He had sent his seventh e-mail before police caught up with him, just a few days after they were alerted by Britain's Scotland Yard that six messages had been sent from five Internet cafes in Bangkok's Nana area. Songkran, his Thai wife, witnessed the re-enactment, which took about 20 minutes, while inquiring about bail. Lt-Colonel Chakrit Iamjangpan, deputy superintendent of the Crime Suppression Police's special operations unit, said the maximum bail for Winstone was Bt400,000. He believed the court would allow him to be freed on bail if his wife asked for it. Chakrit expects to wrap up the investigation and transfer the case to attorneys within a week.
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