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Sunday 30 May 2021

Deadly four-way affair, bogus mall monk, unlucky thief

Twisted murder tale

Fai

A Nakhon Sawan electrician who killed the married woman he had been seeing for 12 months said he was furious when she started seeing a third man as well.

Sompop “Kang” Raksalert, 30, who is himself married with a family, carried on an open relationship with the victim, Monchaya “Fai” Setwaree, 27, in Takhli district. Her husband and family knew but put up with it. However, not content with two men in her life she sought out a third.

This was too much for Kang, who supported her financially and had beaten her up out of jealousy a couple of days before.

Fai went missing on May 17. After killing her near a local irrigation canal he slipped back home. Her body went undetected in the reed grass for three days before it was finally found, supposedly with the help of a fortune teller who told a family member her body would be found near water.

When police finally laid siege to Kang’s home on May 21 following the gruesome discovery of Fai’s beaten body, he threatened to kill himself.
Kang


Relatives, some of whom travelled from Bangkok during his standoff with police, were able to talk him down from that. When he surrendered after the five-hour ordeal he admitted killing the young woman, in what police said was a case of a four-sided affair gone wrong.

Kang said he lured Fai to an irrigation canal about 200m from the nearest village and beat her when she refused to carry on seeing him. He also disguised her death to make it look like a robbery, police said.

Police earlier called in Fai’s husband Supachai Thongkam, 27, who said Fai left home on May 17 saying she was going to see village health volunteers about getting a Covid jab. He searched for his missing wife for three days. Her body was found after a family member consulted a fortune teller in Sing Buri, who said Fai was dead but they would find her body near water.

Police said Fai’s shirt had been pulled up above her chest and her jeans opened. The killer had also beaten her with a hard object. Fai’s bag and motorbike were missing, the killer, they discovered later, having ditched them in the canal.

Kang, who filled in further details after the aborted siege at his home, said he lured Fai to the roadside spot by the Chainat-Pasak irrigation canal in Takhli district. Fai, still upset after he beat her, refused to keep seeing him, despite his entreaties.

The electrician, angry he had supported her financially over many months, lost his temper and struck her with a piece of wood. When she came to, she pleaded for her life but still asked to leave him.

Unhappy with that, he kept hitting her until she was dead and dragged her body into the reed grass.

Kang stuffed her bag under the motorcycle seat and pushed the bike into the canal. He also burnt her phone and threw it into the water. Police divers, who were able to recover both items, said the bag contained drug taking gear. Family members say both were methamphetamine users.

Meanwhile, police say they had to question Fai’s husband Mr Supachai for hours before he revealed his wife had been seeing Kang. “I knew from the outset it was probably Kang’s handiwork,” he told them.

“He beat up my wife only days before and when he brought her back, spoke brusquely: ‘I’m bringing back your wife...don’t let her meddle with me again. If not, I will kill her.’”

Mr Supachai said he wasn’t happy with his wife’s infidelity but put up with it. “I was angry when he attacked her but Fai didn’t want to take action so I had no choice but to go along. I would have done anything for her,” he said.

He and Fai had been together 10 years and had two children, a boy aged 11 and a girl, 6. The little girl died after spending years in a coma following an accident. Her funeral was held earlier this month.

When police surrounded his home in the early afternoon of May 21, Kang locked himself in the bathroom with a gun. As relatives tried to talk him down, police laced his drinking water with sleeping pills in the hope of sending him to sleep. They were preparing to lob in tear gas when a relative persuaded him to lay down the weapon about 7pm.

An aunt, Toy (assumed name), said Kang is friendly, hard working, and good at making money. “When he is free he helps out on the family fruit farm. His mother and I are shocked and didn’t think he would do such a thing,” she said.

Teerachan, 23, a friend of the victim’s, said Monchaya was a lively, cheerful person. “Everyone knows their relationship was wrong, as both have families, but I didn’t dare warn her as it was a personal matter,” he said.

Police left Kang in the custody of the Nakhon Sawan court, initially on gun possession charges, as they build their case.

The shopping mall monk
Sitthichok
Udon Thani police have nabbed an elderly man posing as a monk after shoppers complained they had spotted him changing in the toilets into civilian gear.

Police from Muang district found Sitthichok Noisuwann, 66, dressed in saffron robes while sitting outside a mall. Even though on this occasion he was wearing monk’s robes, shoppers had complained repeatedly of spotting the monk in the mall toilets changing into ordinary clothes.

When police asked Mr Sitthichok for his monk’s ID card he could not supply one. He said he entered the monkhood at a funeral and had never left. However, after questioning he agreed he wasn’t in fact a monk and liked to don monk’s robes to gain an advantage.

Mr Sitthichok said he would leave home wearing civilian gear and duck into a toilet to change into monk’s robes. He would wander through the market where locals, thinking he was a monk, would offer him food and other supplies.

He was also able to cut the queue to see the doctor at hospital when he needed medical attention. In the evening, he would change back into civilian gear before heading home.

He kicked up a fuss when police nabbed him, asking what he had done wrong. Officers said they had received a complaint two weeks before about him changing in the toilets and let him off with a warning.

However, this time he would be charged with impersonating a monk. He was carrying a bag with discarded gear, including an old battery.

A Thai Rath report from April 2015 said Mr Sitthichok was booted from the monkhood after being caught drinking.

Police, the report said, were called to Sompongchaiwararam temple in Mak Khaeng sub-district after a drunken monk went on a rampage.

Phra Sitthichok, the temple’s elders said, would invite his relatives to the temple for a drink, scaring merit-makers. When monks asked him to move on he started abusing and hitting them.

The angry monk, who was spending Lent at the temple, admitted he had been on a four-day drinking bender to relieve stress. He would ask temple boys to fetch 40-proof alcohol from a shop nearby.

Cops said his monk’s ID card showed he had entered the monkhood in 2012 but was defrocked after he was caught drinking. The temple which admitted him over Lent not checked the details properly.

Gutsy shopkeeper tackles thief
Phattharawadee 
A Rayong woman who put up a fight when a thief stole her necklace and Buddha amulet says she didn’t think about the danger but warned others against following her example.

Phattharawadee Panklang, 34, was alone at her roadside shop in Ban Khai district on May 22 when the thief ordered a soft drink. While she was getting his 30 baht change he snatched the items.

CCTV footage taken from the outside of the open-sided shop shows her trying to wrest back the necklace and amulet, which he grabbed along with his change.

The thief, identified later as Manoj Ubonprasert, 29, from Klaeng district, yanks her to the ground as he tries to get a grip on the necklace, which at first refuses to open. He kicks her in the stomach as she puts up resistance.

After a brief skirmish, Ms Phattharawadee chases him as he jumps on his motorcycle.

At first Mr Manoj can’t start the engine. Ms Phattharawadee leaps across the handlebars and sits there facing the thief as he moves the bike along with his feet.

When the vehicle starts she is carried along for a few metres. Finally she is able to wrest back her necklace and jump off the bike.

No one has since been able to find the amulet, as Mr Manoj, arrested later by police, claims he dropped it. He also dropped his phone in his haste. Police called to the scene found the phone, which led them to the suspect.

Ms Phattharawadee, who was left with bruised legs, said that while motorists passed by, no one came to her aid. The shop, selling fried bananas and coffee, is in front of her home. “I did not think of the danger to myself, I just wanted my necklace back. However, I would warn others against taking on thieves as next time they could be carrying a weapon.

“These are tough times and people might be more inclined to steal. I have worn jewellery for six years without problem but won’t wear it in the open again,” she said.

As police surrounded Mr Manoj at his home, footage taken by the officers shows him trying to escape over a fence. He changes his mind when they threaten to shoot. He admitted taking the goods, saying he was seized by a sudden impulse.

However, he ended up with nothing, he insisted, as he yielded the necklace to a determined Ms Phattharawadee, and dropped his phone and the amulet on the road as he made his escape. He doubled back later looking for both but couldn’t find them. Officers charged him with theft.

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