PATTAYA - The father of a petrol station employee says surveillance camera video from a petrol station proves that his daughter did not collapse and die but was assaulted before being pronounced dead earlier this week.
Somporn Thongsuk, 54, said he received a phone call at 10pm on Monday to tell him his adopted daughter Kanoknipa Laypol, 22, had collapsed and died at the station where she worked on Sukhumvit Road in North Pattaya.
Arriving at the station, he saw his daughter lying inside the convenience store at the station. Rescue workers and staff from Bangkok Hospital Pattaya were unable to resuscitate her.
Mr Somporn said his daughter’s colleagues told him that she was working overtime and had consumed many bottles of kratom water and energy drinks, and they assumed that could have led to her collapse and death.
The following day, however, an acquaintance told Mr Somporn that his daughter had in fact been assaulted and knocked out.
He said he returned to the station and was shown security video that showed his daughter’s boyfriend, who also worked there, punching her repeatedly. The woman fell, went into convulsions and became unconscious.
Saharat Krudngoen, a 37-year-old rescue worker who saw the victim at the petrol station on Monday night, said rescue workers were informed that she had passed out.
When his team arrived at the station, the victim had no pulse and rescue workers did not see any cuts or bruises on her face, he said.
The woman’s boyfriend told rescue workers that the couple had quarrelled. He said he pushed her and she fell, hitting her head on the ground and losing consciousness, according to Mr Saharat.
The body underwent an autopsy and was then brought to her native province of Kalasin where cremation was scheduled on Thursday afternoon.
Mr Somporn said the autopsy result would be announced in 45 days and police had not arrested a suspect. He said he was afraid that the suspect could escape in the meantime.
