IN Brief
SUFFOCATION DEATHS :The driver of a container truck on which 54 illegal Burmese suffocated to death has been sentenced to six years in jail by the Ranong Criminal Court.
The court initially sentenced him to 12 years in prison, but cut the term in half after he confessed.
The migrants were on their way to Phuket, hidden on the truck. Driver Suchon Boonplong said he was paid 74,000 baht to drive the truck from the border town of Ranong to Phuket.
The driver is the first person to have confessed to a role in the human trafficking tragedy.
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Fines for raid
CRIME :The Criminal Court yesterday acquitted former police chief Sereepisut Taemeeyaves of malfeasance after his subordinates raided the house of Phajit Thammarojpinit, known as Por Pratu Nam, without a search warrant,
The court did find that his subordinates committed malfeasance. It handed each a three-year suspended jail term and fined them 3,000 baht.
The court gave the former police chief the benefit of the doubt since he arrived at the house after the raid.
The three officers and Pol Gen Sereepisut were named as defendants in a suit filed by Mr Phajit. He accused them of carrying out a raid on his house in Ratchathewi without a search warrant on Feb 6, 2006, causing damage to his property.
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No need to go faster
SETTING CLOCKS :Thai time will stay as it is, says director of the National Institute of Meteorology Pian Totarong.
He has denied a report that Thailand will wind clocks forward by half an hour.
Thai time would remain seven hours ahead of Greenwich time, he said.
'I think there might be some misunderstanding. We have never planned to change Thai time. All we will do is provide a service for people to set the time correctly," said Mr Pian. People who want to know the exact time can check the institute's website, or dial the 181 service of the Hydrographic Department.
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