Police investigators claim to have obtained key evidence against an anti-junta female DJ facing an animal cruelty charge over the death of a kitten.
The "evidence" was uncovered when police from Phetkasem searched Wararat Krasae’s apartment room on Krung Thon Buri Road and her parents’ house in Thawi Watthana district, Bangkok, Pol Col Wutthichai Thaiwat, the station chief, said on Thursday.
It was found in her mobile phones, a notebook computer, a computer CPU and 16 books written in Japanese, he said.
An expert in Japanese had read the books and found two of them contained content and imagery about torturing people and animals, Pol Col Wutthichai alleged. He said the content was most unpleasant and would not be made public.
It had been passed to the Office of Police Forensic Science for examination, and the findings would be included in the police case report, he said.
Wararat, 30, known as “DJ Sun’’, is the focus of an animal cruelty case. She failed to show up on Wednesday to acknowledge the police charge, citing illness. Police said later that she would be summonsed again to appear on Oct 29.
Isaraporn Samutklalin, 29, has accused Ms Wararat of brutally killing an adopted kitten during a live stream allegedly broadcast on a website that caters to fetishists on the dark web. She was allegedly paid in bitcoin for doing it. No details have been released about how Ms Israporn knew this.
Ms Isaraporn filed a complaint with Phetkasem police in Bangkok. The accused DJ had handed over the dead kitten, saying it had been killed by a car.
Pol Col Wutthichai said a pathologist was closely examining the dead cat. To date, no other people had been implicated in the alleged cruelty.
If the evidence was strong enough, investigators would seek court approval to arrest the DJ without having to issue the second summons, he said.
Watchdog Thailand veterinarians handed further evidence of alleged animal cruelty by Ms Wararat to the Phetkasem police chief on Wednesday.
Ms Wararat was an early, public critic of the 2014 coup that brought the current military government to power.
