Free The Last Executioner by Chavoret Jaruboon, Nicola Pierce

He did and his kid was immediately accepted by the school. I don’t think I would have done that. If you ask them for help you are pandering to them, and acknowledging their superiority to you. If they are so big and important, what are they doing in Bang Kwang? Also nobody does something for nothing. You can be sure that if those guys do you a favour they will want something in return, which could involve you risking your life by bringing in drugs.
    The guard thinks he is having a friendly chat with the inmate who has just asked him what car he drives. When the guard admits to owing a very ordinary vehicle the inmate lights up and tells the guard that he drives a BMW and better yet he can help him become the proud owner of one because he knows a car-dealer. If you take his advice and seek out this dealer you will probably find that cars are not the only products he supplies.
    A further headache for the prison guard is caused by the relatives. A father with money and power will have an important friend ring the Superintendent and tell him that he wants his son looked after inside. His wish is passed on to us and we have to treat the little fool with kid gloves. This gives him a big head and an ego boost in front of the other prisoners, and suddenly he is causing problems for the young and inexperienced guards because he knows that Daddy is just a phone-call away.

Chapter 5
    20 December 1971.
    Bangjak Subdistrict, Phrapradaeng District, Samutprakarn Province: The police station in Phrapradaeng receives a phone call from a farmer who has found a body on his coconut farm. Officers rush to the scene where the battered and torn body of ten-year-old Varee Songsuk lies in the mud. The autopsy report is difficult to read; her little body is covered in wounds and bruises. The hymen is torn and there is semen in the vagina, which is also bloodied and torn. There is extensive bruising to her neck and chin. Clay has been shoved down her throat as far as the larynx. The report concludes that she was strangled and then suffocated to death.
    The following day the police arrest four young men aged between 14 and 21: Sane Oongaew, Somchai Sansuk, Cherdchai Praditsuwan and Narat Oongaew (Sane’s younger brother). The three youngest immediately confess to the crime, and place Sane—who denies all charges—at the scene. They describe the previous night in detail.
    On the night of 19 December 1971 Varee was crossing the street near where she lived, heading for Thaigrienggao Alley in Bangjak. Seven males in total grabbed the child who started to scream. They picked her up by her arms and legs, covered her mouth to stop her cries and carried her across Suksawat Road to a construction site where Sane was waiting to join them. They then continued with the struggling child on to the farm. When they reached a secluded spot two of the males, Cherdchai and Poom, pinned her arms and legs to the ground while Sane, Narat and another guy Eed took turns raping her. They were also trying to strangle Varee as they raped her. After the raping the eight males beat up the little girl, and stuffed up her mouth with dirt before running away.
    The police discovered that 21-year-old Sane’s father was the chief authority in the village of Bangjak. They were suddenly approached by villagers who had been too scared to report the many rapes committed by Sane against their women. Sane, who had become a monk, never ever admitted to committing even one rape and showed absolutely no sign of guilt or remorse.
    Somchai, Cherdhai and Narat, aged 16, 15 and 14 respectively, were juveniles. It was also taken into consideration that they had co-operated fully with the police in their investigations. Cherdhai, in particular, who did not partake in the actual raping, had methodically taken the police through the sequence of horrific events. As a consequence, they received different prison sentences: Somchai Sansuk was sentenced to life imprisonment, Cherdchai Praditsuwan was