Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lt-Gen Santhan Chayanont urged investigators yesterday to speed up their work in the case of a thief stabbing a 13-year-old boy to death to rob him of a Bt3,000 Nokia mobile phone on Sunday.
The victim's mother Janthra Thangthong, 24, filed a police complaint early on Monday, saying that her son Kittipop Poungsombat, 13, had been to his friend's birthday party at 4pm the previous day, before going to watch a movie at Central Rama II mall.
Her last phone conversation with her son was around 9pm. A receiver hung up on two calls after that before the signal was lost. She later was told by rescue workers that her son had been stabbed and pronounced dead at Bang Prakok 1 Hospital.