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The woman, Whitchayaporn Visessombut, known as Wa-Wa, was booked out to a VIP party in a Bangkok suburb late on Monday night and died at a local hospital the next day.
CCTV footage shared on local media showed two unidentified men dropping the 33-year-old at the hospital around 6am, paying 15,000 baht (about US$500) to the cashier at the emergency desk and then leaving. She was declared dead a few hours later.
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Atchariya said members of his organisation had spoken to the other women partygoers who confirmed that one of the men at the party was khon mee si, using the Thai catch-all term for a “man in uniform”, although he did not specify whether the uniform was of the police or army.
Atchariya urged the partygoers to turn themselves in, but Thai police played down the likelihood of foul play, and no charges have been filed in the incident.
“As of now … it’s not a criminal case,” Police Colonel Prasopchok Iemphinit, chief of the Phahon Yothin police station in Bangkok, told reporters on Thursday, adding that there was “more than one man” at the party and that four women, including Whitchayaporn, had been hired to entertain the men.
“If we find that there’s no wrongdoing, this case will be over,” he said.