Prinn Panitchapakdi, former deputy leader of the Democrat Party, faces an
additional two years imprisonment following a sexual assault conviction.
According to Kosonwat Intuchanyong, spokesperson for the Office of the
Attorney General, on 25 September 2023, the Bangkok South Criminal Court
delivered verdicts against Prinn in two separate sexual assault cases. One
involving charges of public indecency was dismissed due to insufficient
evidence.
Prinn was found guilty in a second case involving the sexual assault of a
girl under the age of 15, however. He was sentenced to two years without
suspension. The court ordered the sentence to run consecutively with the
two years in prison he must serve for his conviction in an earlier sex
crime case which concluded in August 2023. As a result, he now faces a
total of four years and eight months in prison.
The court granted Prinn temporary bail of 300,000 Baht.
On 10 August 2023, the Bangkok South Criminal Court delivered a verdict in a
case in which Prinn was accused of sexually assaulting an 18-year-old
woman. In 2021, he reportedly used the ruse of career discussion and stock
market guidance to deceive his victim at a Sukhumvit Soi 11 rooftop
restaurant.
On 10 August, the court sentenced Prinn to two years and eight months in
jail without suspension. The victim reported the case on April 2022. It was
the first he faced.
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