SEX CRIME
The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the Appeals Court's nine-year jail sentence for a former railway worker who raped a train passenger in a sleeper car in 2001.
Natthaphat (alias Ritthidet) Chakchai was found guilty of raping the woman on the Sungai Kolok-Bangkok train around midnight on July 16, 2001.
The woman said she was attacked while she was sleeping.
She later ran away and locked herself in a toilet.
Natthaphat followed her and threatened her from the outside.
After she left the toilet, he detained her in the sleeper car to prevent her from alerting police. The woman later escaped and filed a complaint against him.
When he was arrested, he denied the rape charge, claiming the woman had consented to sex with him.
The South Bangkok Criminal Court did not believe him and sentenced him to nine years in jail on July 29, 2003.
He appealed the verdict, but the higher courts upheld the sentence.
The woman was a public relations manager of a publishing company.
She had frequently made business trips to the South before she was attacked.
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