The Mukdahan resident told Nakhon Phanom police chief Pol Maj Gen Suwichan Yankittikul on Wednesday that another teacher, Suriya Nuancharoen, had promised to pay him Bt400,000 to be the scapegoat in the case so that Jomsap could be exonerated.

Sap said he had not yet received the money.

Jomsap was sentenced to three years and two months in prison over the death of cyclist Lua

Phorbumrung in the March 11, 2005, accident in Nakhon Phanom’s Renu Nakhon district.

She was granted a royal pardon in April 2015 after serving 18 months and sought a retrial to clear her name.

But the Supreme Court last week rejected her petition, citing suspicions of “hired scapegoats”.

Sap now insists he was at home in Mukdahan at the time of the accident.

Nakhon Phanom police have vowed to bring perjury charges against Sap and six others who they believe procured false witnesses on Jomsap’s behalf.

Sap had originally claimed that Jomsap was falsely accused due to a mix-up, since her pickup truck bore the licence plate “Bor Khor 56 Sakhon Nakhon”, while his was “Bor Khor 56 Mukdahan”.