News: police detain suspect killer of Canadian in Patong

Pol. Lt. Gen. Santan Chayanond, commissioner of police region 8 looking after upper south Thailand, on Saturday held a meeting with the investigation team, tourist police and immigration officers in Phuket to work on the murder case of a Canadian property developer in Patong. Mr. Francis Alex Degioanni, aged 34, was shot dead in a car while coming back to the front of his house in Patong on Thursday night. The commissioner spent two hours meeting with his officers and instructed the operation unit to check the clues from Closed Circuit Television or CCTV installed nearby the location where the shooting took place. Police suspect 3 killing motives, being a business conflict, personal conflict and marital affairs. The victim was reported to be a businessman with hundreds of millions of baht in assets. Police have now detained one suspect and are still working on the evidence and witnesses. They are believed to be able to bring the gunman to face conviction soon.
We also pass our condolences to his family and friends. Andaman News NBT (VHF dial) + Radio Thailand FM90.5 at 8.30am & perhaps repeats on Phuket Cable TV channel 1 at 7pm & 1am, broadcast to Phang Nga, Krabi & Phuket provinces & maybe Mazz Radio FM108 at 7pm in Phuket, Monday 23rd February 2009 http://thainews.prd.go.th/newsenglish/ & www.YouTube.com/AndamanNews.com Comments to AndamanNews@yahoo.com

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[syalm69]

This guy was my cousin, I was in Thailand at that moment to visit. I was delayed to see him on his birthday and this is what happened to him... May God bless his soul.