UTHAI SAWAN, Nong Bua Lamphu: In the days before he murdered 36 people, 24 of them children, the former police sergeant who committed Thailand's worst massacre was firing guns in his backyard.
For several nights the sound of 34-year-old Panya Khamrap’s 9mm pistol cracked the silence in the sleepy village of Tha Uthai, neighbours said. It was the latest show of violence from the former police officer, once a village success story who became an angry, introverted man in a downward spiral, though still invested with some of the authority his old job bestowed.
