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Wednesday, September 4, 2002
Girl, 17, steals B50,000 from Gov’s house
PHUKET TOWN: A 17-year-old girl being held on a charge of stealing
50,000 baht from the Governor’s Residence yesterday tried
committing suicide by slitting her wrists with pieces of her broken
plastic bracelet.
Pol Capt Akkanit Danpitaksasna, of Phuket Town Police Station,
today said the girl was being held at the station after confessing
to stealing 50,000 baht belonging to the Governor’s wife,
Mantana.
Capt Akkanit explained that Phuket Governor CEO Pongpayome Vasaputi
called the police at about 9 pm on Monday, and reported that 50,000
baht belonging to his wife had been stolen.
Officers arrived at the house where the housekeeper told them
that a teenage girl had come to the house at about 5 pm that day.
The girl had said that she had come to see K. Mantana about work
at the residence.
The girl told the housekeeper that she was well acquainted with
K. Mantana because she had often given her facial treatments at
a Phuket Town beauty salon.
However, K. Mantana was not at home, so the girl left a note on
a dining room sideboard, next to an envelope containing the cash.
Officers arrested the girl later that night as she was walking
home along Takuapa Rd. She had an Orange mobile phone, which she
had bought that day.
Police took her to the Governor’s Residence where she confessed
to stealing the money and returned what she had not spent. She
was then taken to Phuket Town Police Station and charged with
theft.
An officer on duty saw the girl trying to cut her wrists at about
5 am. She was taken to Wachira Phuket Hospital for treatment before
being returned to her cell, where she awaits trial in Juvenile
Court.
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