The father of a teenage girl who died while being driven home by a truck driver filed a complaint against a nurse and a housekeeper at a hospital in Ayutthaya for destroying evidence.
Subin Yawiratch, 41, father of the 19-year-old girl, Nareekan Yawiratch, on Tuesday met Pol Lt Col Somnuek Santipatanan, an investigator at Crime Suppression Division’s sub-division 2, to file the complaint against the two employees at Karunvej Ayutthaya Hospital.
He accused them of destroying evidence to help the suspect. The names of the two staff were not disclosed.
The father gave the CSD investigator a clip in which the nurse told the police she had given the teenager’s underwear to the housekeeper to destroy. She earlier allegedly told the relatives she had returned it to the family.
Nareekan died while being driven home by truck driver Surapol Darakham from an entertainment venue in Ayutthaya last month.
Mr Surapol had first told police that the girl suddenly jumped out of the vehicle while he was driving. Her head hit the ground and she died as a result of her fall on July 19 in Bang Pa-in district.
But deputy national police chief Srivara Rangsibrahmanakul said the girl was murdered.
Atchariya Ruangrattanapong, chairman of the crime victims’ assistance club, who accompanied Mr Subin to the police on Tuesday, said he did not understand why the nurse lied that she already returned the missing underwear to relatives of the girl.
The nurse later changed her account, saying that she gave the missing underwear to the housekeeper to be destroyed, saying it was infectious waste, said Mr Atchariya.
Her action raised suspicions as the underwear belonged to the patient and must be returned to the victim's relatives.
Footage of closed-circuit television cameras at the hospital that the family of the girl viewed on July 29 showed the girl still wore the underwear on the day she was sent to the hospital. It was not in a trash bag as claimed by the nurse.
“Personally, I don’t know the real intention of the nurse and the housekeeper. The girl’s father and I earlier viewed footage of the hospital’s CCTVs on July 29. However, the hospital director recently said the CCTVS were not working,’’ said Mr Atchariya.
Autopsy results on whether she was sexually abused would be known by Aug 27.
The girl’s family also planned to file a civil suit demanding damages from the hospital for violating the rights of the girl, said Mr Atchariya.
The CSD investigator accepted the case and interrogated the complainant.