ABOVE: Porntip Rojanasunan, the appointed head of the Central Institute of Forensic Science, said she could not investigate the case. Photo: Wikimedia
Nearly a month after Tai Daohuang fell to her death in the capital’s Huai Khwang district, her parents are pleading with authorities to further investigate the circumstances of her death.
Several prominent women political figures have lent their support to a petition filed yesterday by the parents of the 20-year-old Lao woman asking the kingdom’s top forensic’s investigator to re-evaluate the case.
Tai’s body was found eight floors below an apartment balcony on July 27, and police quickly ruled it a suicide.
Porn Daohuang and Tantawan Chaiyawongsa, her parents, point to circumstances they find suspicious about their daughter’s death. According to the Bangkok Post, Tai had been summoned to the apartment by its owner, who authorities will only identify as “Mr. Amnat.” That man’s girlfriend, also unidentified, arrived at the same time and convinced a security guard to let her into the room after no one answered the door. Imprints from Tai’s fingers were found pressed into the balcony in a way that suggest she clung to the balcony’s railing for some time before falling.
Ponsi Bunmichai, a Lao embassy official, and attorney Suthas Ngernmuen of the Democrat Party have supported the parents’ call for chief forensics examiner Pornthip Rojanasunan to intercede in the case.
Porntip said she lacked the authority to help. For more information read the story in the Bangkok Post.
Photo: Wikimedia
