A Thai court today upheld the death sentence handed down to a railway employee on charges of murder and aggravated rape of a minor girl on a train last year, a case that created furore in the country.
The Appeals Court's decision on an earlier conviction was read out in the presence of the 23-year-old convicted killer Wanchai Saengkhao who confessed to raping a 13-year-old girl on July 5.
The Hua Hin Provincial Court last year found Wanchai guilty on several counts.
Wanchai, a sleeper-car employee of the Railway of Thailand, was convicted of raping a middle school student who was asleep in her berth on the train, and then throwing her out of the carriage while she was still alive.
The court had sentenced him to death for murder, to nine years in prison for raping a girl under 15, five years for stealing her tablet computer and a mobile phone, one year for hiding her body, and six months for using methamphetamine.
