Crowd control police stationed overnight at Supreme Court before ex-PMs appear

A police source told The Nation that officers were ordered to stay overnight at the court on Monday and Tuesday. 
Hundreds of crowd control police from the Metropolitan Police Bureau were deployed at the Supreme Court to keep peace and order. Fences were installed in front of the court’s entrance.
On Tuesday at 9.30am, the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division on Political Office Holders will hear a closing statement from former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra in her trial linked to the the controversial rice-pledging scheme.
Yingluck was charged with negligence for allegedly failing to prevent corruption and irregularities in the scheme carried out while she was in office.
The Supreme Court’s Criminal Division on Political Office Holders is set to deliver a verdict in the case on August 25.
On Wednesday, it is scheduled to deliver its verdict in a case involving two former PMs and two former police chiefs for alleged malfeasance after being held responsible for the fatal police crackdown on yellow-shirt protesters on October 7, 2008.
The four defendants are former prime minister Somchai Wongsawat, his then deputy Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, who is also an ex-PM, former national police chief General Patcharawat Wongsuwan, and former Metropolitan Police commander Lt-General Suchart Muenkaew.
The incident left two demonstrators dead and 470 injured.