Court sentenced the country’s first Olympic gold medallist to just over three years in prison for the abduction and attempted rape of a teenager.
Thailand’s Somluck Kamsing competes with Canada’s Benoit Gaudet during their Olympic Games preliminary featherweight boxing match in Athens on August 16, 2004. A Thai court on January 23, 2025 sentenced the country’s first Olympic gold medallist to just over three years in prison for the abduction and attempted rape of a teenager.
The Khon Kaen provincial court found Somluck guilty of child abduction for molestation and attempted rape, before granting him an appeal and bail. Somluck filed a request for bail, which the court granted at 300,000 baht while he pursues his appeal.A 17-year-old girl filed a complaint in December 2023 against Somluck saying he had assaulted her in a hotel in Khon Kaen, a city in the kingdom’s northeast.
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