Worayuth Yoovidhya

Thai police have arrested the Ferrari-driving grandson of the co-creator of the Red Bull energy drink on suspicion of killing a policeman in a hit-and-run collision yesterday, officials said. The suspect, 27-year-old Worayuth Yoovidhya, is accused of hitting the police officer, who was on a motorcycle, and dragging the body about 100m down a main road at around dawn in the capital Bangkok.

“We traced the gasoline trail which leaked onto the road until it led us to the house with the Ferrari,” said police Lieutenant Colonel Viradol Thubthimdee His grandfather Chaleo Yoovidhya was one of Thailand’s richest men thanks to the global success of the Red Bull empire that he co-founded with Austrian Dietrich Mateschitz in the 1980s. Chaleo died in March aged 89.