The mother of 18-year-old cadet Pakapong "Moei" Tanyakan has vowed to seek justice for her son following reports that a military-appointed committee probing his mysterious death has concluded it was not caused by assault.
A source previously said the committee looking into the cadet's death had concluded it was the result of sudden heart failure, not assault.
Pakapong's mother Sukanya Tanyakan wrote on Facebook yesterday that she believed most Thais disagreed with the committee's findings.
The family will do all it can to seek justice for Pakapong, she said, adding the family has obtained information which will be used as evidence when the family takes the case to court.
The information cannot be disclosed at this stage, Ms Sukanya wrote.
"My son was punished in the cadet honour system ... even though my son did nothing wrong. We put our lives at stake and now is the time. We want to question you about the honour system. Answer our family and all Thais," she wrote.
ACM Chawarat Marungruang, deputy head of the joint chiefs of staff who chaired the committee, yesterday said the panel submitted its findings to Supreme Commander, Thanchaiyan Srisuwan, on Wednesday.
ACM Chawarat declined to reveal the findings, saying it was up to the Supreme Commander to decide whether to divulge the details to the public.
Gen Thanchaiyan will return from a trip to Singapore today, he said.
Som Promros, director of the Central Institute of Forensic Science (CIFS), said yesterday the CIFS had tried to examine DNA in the cadet's internal organs to confirm they were his, but could not extract any because the organs were kept in formalin for too long.
The CIFS later sent the organs to Ramathibodi Hospital so see if experts there could extract some DNA. Results should come out in about two months, Mr Som said.
Pakapong died on Oct 17, a day after he returned to the Armed Forces Academies Preparatory School after a short break. The academy provided a death certificate indicating he had died of sudden cardiac arrest but gave no details, his family said.
The family later secretly removed their son's body from a cremation ceremony at a temple on Oct 24 to undergo an autopsy at the CIFS.
The autopsy found that his heart, bladder, stomach and brain were missing while his skull was filled with tissue paper. The army later returned the organs to the family.
