Almost four years ago when my stepson was 17 years old, he was sitting just down the next soi from our house on our motorbike just watching the world go by when three lads in their twenty's pulled up drunk on two motorbikes and started on my stepson. The noise and shouting soon alerted some of his friends and they came running out of a house to help, a full on brawl then ensued and my stepsons who a big lad for his age gave the main aggressor an absallute hiding, now in my opinion "good on him well done son i would have done the same" but the bit I would not condone is he stamped on his head.
The aggressor was taken to hospital with a brain bleed and his head swollen up the size of a football and he spent time in ICU then further time in a normal hospital bed but we are unsure of how long.
Now a few months past by and all parties got arrested, the Pui Yai Baan accompanied him to the police station he was interview and was made to sign a statement that he couldn't even read properly.
About another three months past by and all the othe lads where told no case to answer except for my stepson who was keeping a low profile was told he was going to be arrested. He moved to Bangkok to work on construction sites to scared to face the court and knowing their is a warrant for his arrest he was also being told by friends and family the police had been looking for him.
He has never been back to our village and January last year would only meet us in Bangkok he misses his family and friends very much, we have always had the opinion he will return when he is good and ready and not to be forced into it.
We had our usual couple of weeks at our house and thought nothing unusual everything is ok apart from him not being there.
Since then the pressure has started their is this policeman that is a real hell raiser, that my wife remembers "when he was a young boy of about eight years old aqused him of stealing a hand gun that had been left on the dashboard of a car and smacked him in the face so hard that he burst his lip open" and it was not even him it was a group of much older lads.
This policeman is now persuing us on behalf of the other family for compensation and medical bills although a fair amount of time has passed by and the aggressor has now made a full recovery.
We have two family members that are police and they are really unwilling to help us against Hellcop we also have had their big boss from Kap Choeng Police around our house when we had it blessed for the full party but we don't have a contact number of the police station, we don't know if Hellcop is even from our immediate area as he wasn't around for a number of years.
He has also failed to report for his national service ( as you have to do this in your own area) now I know from a personal friend and forum member the fine will go up daily so this is looking like an expensive holiday for us in the new year.
Now do we reach a settlement with the family or not the wife thinks we will have too but my opinion is no way, self defence and three drunk men got their just deserts. Yes he went to far but he is a lovely natured lad and wouldn't normally get involved in a fight.
If we get a lawyer involved we haven't got time on our side as we will only be in Thailand for 28 days so really can't agree on the best course of action although we are going to encourage him to report for national service not pay that fine and go in and do his two years service.
I will be damned that doing two jobs working bloody hard to save that I am going to be giving thousands of pounds away to the aggressors family and some bent cop makes my blood boil and it won't exactly make far a enjoyable family holiday.
Advice please as the corrupt side of Thailand I find hard to swallow as we are not talking 200 baht driving offences here
Kendo.
