There's tattoo much flesh on show! Body art festival organisers are fined after fans were allowed to wander NAKED around a shopping mall in Thailand

There's tattoo much flesh on show! Body art festival organisers are fined after fans were allowed to wander NAKED around a shopping mall in Thailand

Organisers of a Thai tattoo festival have been fined and a local police chief disciplined after participants were allowed to wander around naked in a shopping mall while putting their body art on display. 

The Rayong Tattoo Convention II was held in a shopping centre in eastern Thailand last weekend, and attracted large numbers of body art fans.

In order to show off their ink, many participants had to remove several items of clothing, with some stripping off completely to reveal full-body tattoos. 

The parades of naked men and women exposing their bodies attracted several complaints from visitors to the shopping centre who did not part-take in the convention.  

Ton Naboon said: 'I was visiting to watch a film with my wife and young daughter and my wife was doing some shopping. 

'We had no choice but seeing these people. This should have been in a different place, with only people who choose to see it going inside.'

Wattana Sagasin added: 'This is not acceptable for society and traditional Thai culture.'

Organisers of the event at the SF Senima City in Rayong, Thailand, have now been fined £114 each for 'lewd and obscene' behaviour in public.

While the police chief of the region, Damrong Uansoongnern, who gave the show the green light has been reprimanded and transferred to a desk job doing paper work for 30 days.

Police Lieutenant Traisoon Niamsap, provincial police boss, said a committee has now been set up to investigate how the event was allowed to happen.

He said: 'We apologise to people who were offended by this. The police and the shopping mall did not know that the event would be inappropriate.

'The four people who organised the event aged 28 to 41, have each been fined in accordance with the law.

'The superintendent who oversaw this has been transferred for a period of 30 days to help with the civil service and we have today set up a committee to investigate.'

Bosses at the shopping mall said they were unable to cancel the convention when they became aware of the scantily clad people around the facility because the event had already started.