HAT YAI: A 61-year-old Malaysian man, who escaped with seven million baht (US$0.2 million) worth of gold necklaces in a robbery at a Hat Yai gold shop on Tuesday (April 8), has a long criminal history as both a robber and contract killer, police said on Wednesday.
A police officer from Provincial Police Region 9 identified the suspect as Yee Bun Long, a Malaysian national recently released from prison. He had previously been convicted for robbing gold necklaces worth 2.3 million baht (US$0.066 million) from the Thai Yindee Gold Shop in Hat Yai on 6 January 2017.
