Love-hate coupling sours
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| Wanna Danpong |
Wanna Danpong, 55, a labourer, was nabbed for attempted murder after attacking his wife, Tum Thefai, 57, on May 29 outside their home in Nam Phong district.
“Our karma is over forever and I refuse to apologise to that woman”, he vowed, after his stepdaughter Jittiya Nitthaworn, 35, acting on an injured Ms Tum’s behalf, laid a complaint with Nam Phong police.
He said he intended to kill his wife after she dared him to do so and the fact she survived should spare him from karma’s wrath for his ill deed. However, his family says Wanna was easily put out and did not fancy a jail term so hanged himself in the cell.
Wanna attacked his wife in a field next to Wat Silakhan, about 300m from their home. Ms Tum had left home on foot after an argument with her husband. “If you’re really that smart, kill me,” she said. She walked into the neighbour’s field and challenged him to follow. “I grabbed a kitchen knife intending to do just that,” Wanna told police.
Ms Tum charged at him first, he said, slapping his face. He returned the blow, knocking her off her feet. Wanna then ground his boot into her face and slit her throat with the knife, leaving a wound needing 17 stitches.
He thought he had finished the job, and buried her under a pile of leaves to disguise the deed. However, Ms Tum, her throat slit and bleeding profusely, staged a miracle recovery. “I felt a cool sensation and lost consciousness. However, I came to under pouring rain. I shook off the leaves and staggered back to our house to seek help,” she said.
Wanna, after leaving his wife’s body in the field, went home to scoop up her savings and slept rough under a local bridge. He was heading to a relative’s place the next morning to beg for a chicken when police caught up with him.
Wanna told police the pair had been arguing for years. They would part ways, only to get back together again. On the day of the incident, the two were hired for 500 baht to clear a nearby field. They had split up their earnings and were having a drink when the bickering started. As the insults grew, Ms Tum dared him to kill her.
After being caught he spent most of the day in the holding cell pending legal action. After an evening meal, the duty officer saw him go to sleep and went to the toilet. When he returned, Wanna was dead.
Wanna was wearing a pair of shorts under his jeans and took off the shorts to remove a waist cord. He tied that around his neck, and the shorts to the cell bar to hang himself. His body was sent for an autopsy and an inquiry is underway.
Told about her husband’s fate, an unimpressed Ms Tum said she regretted the loss of her money which he stole after cutting her throat. However, she was prepared to forgive him so any further karma vengeance between them would come to an end.
Ms Jittiya, his stepdaughter, said the couple had been back together only a week since their latest bust-up. Her mother had called Wanna asking him to return.
He said he intended to kill his wife after she dared him to do so and the fact she survived should spare him from karma’s wrath for his ill deed. However, his family says Wanna was easily put out and did not fancy a jail term so hanged himself in the cell.
Wanna attacked his wife in a field next to Wat Silakhan, about 300m from their home. Ms Tum had left home on foot after an argument with her husband. “If you’re really that smart, kill me,” she said. She walked into the neighbour’s field and challenged him to follow. “I grabbed a kitchen knife intending to do just that,” Wanna told police.
Ms Tum charged at him first, he said, slapping his face. He returned the blow, knocking her off her feet. Wanna then ground his boot into her face and slit her throat with the knife, leaving a wound needing 17 stitches.
He thought he had finished the job, and buried her under a pile of leaves to disguise the deed. However, Ms Tum, her throat slit and bleeding profusely, staged a miracle recovery. “I felt a cool sensation and lost consciousness. However, I came to under pouring rain. I shook off the leaves and staggered back to our house to seek help,” she said.
Wanna, after leaving his wife’s body in the field, went home to scoop up her savings and slept rough under a local bridge. He was heading to a relative’s place the next morning to beg for a chicken when police caught up with him.
Wanna told police the pair had been arguing for years. They would part ways, only to get back together again. On the day of the incident, the two were hired for 500 baht to clear a nearby field. They had split up their earnings and were having a drink when the bickering started. As the insults grew, Ms Tum dared him to kill her.
After being caught he spent most of the day in the holding cell pending legal action. After an evening meal, the duty officer saw him go to sleep and went to the toilet. When he returned, Wanna was dead.
Wanna was wearing a pair of shorts under his jeans and took off the shorts to remove a waist cord. He tied that around his neck, and the shorts to the cell bar to hang himself. His body was sent for an autopsy and an inquiry is underway.
Told about her husband’s fate, an unimpressed Ms Tum said she regretted the loss of her money which he stole after cutting her throat. However, she was prepared to forgive him so any further karma vengeance between them would come to an end.
Ms Jittiya, his stepdaughter, said the couple had been back together only a week since their latest bust-up. Her mother had called Wanna asking him to return.
“My mother gave him another chance. He has beaten her before, but they like drinking together and arguing,” she said. His funeral was held at Wat Silakhan, metres from where he attacked his wife.
Killer wants clean slate
A Chon Buri man killed two relatives in a drinking circle and was allegedly about to kill his wife and father-in-law when police intervened.
Ban Bueng police nabbed Supaporn “Kan” Charoengnamsap, 38, for shooting two relatives dead and seriously injuring another on May 28 with a handgun he had bought just four days before.
They had chided him previously for his poor behaviour, including his drug-taking habit, and hit him over the head. The shooting took place at a shop in Village 3 of Nong Bon Daeng sub-district. “I vowed to kill them all and on the day of the shooting saw them gathered in a drinking circle outside the dried goods shop,” he told police later.
One report said he drank a beer at a table next to theirs to get up the courage, then went to his home behind the shop to fetch his gun. Another report said he turned up on his motorbike, calmly gave the men a wai, and without saying a word opened fire.
He shot them, godfather-style, one by one. He killed Niphon Thanukaew, 56, and Wichan Yimyaem, 55, and seriously injured Udon Suklert, 50. He shot Niphon first, then Udon. Mr Wichan charged at Mr Kan but he managed to shoot him first. He fell to the side of the road.
Mr Kan fled to his father-in-law’s place in Phanat Nikom district where reports said he intended to kill his wife and her dad. However, police arrived after hearing about the earlier shooting, and he fled into a plantation at the rear of the house.
Police say he seemed spooked, pointing the gun to his own head repeatedly. They talked him down over the next four hours, finally convincing him to lay down the weapon and give up. They seized an 11mm calibre Colt with 21 bullets.
Apologising to her family, Mr Kan’s mother, Jew Saegnui, 58, said her son had a psychiatric condition but stopped taking his meds over a year ago.
As she was fetching a drink of water from a canteen on the sling bed, he grabbed her arm and attacked her head with the 50cm axe. “I also hit her with the ridge of the axe until she fell over,” he said.
Killer wants clean slate
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| The crime re-enactment gets out of control. |
A Chon Buri man killed two relatives in a drinking circle and was allegedly about to kill his wife and father-in-law when police intervened.
Ban Bueng police nabbed Supaporn “Kan” Charoengnamsap, 38, for shooting two relatives dead and seriously injuring another on May 28 with a handgun he had bought just four days before.
They had chided him previously for his poor behaviour, including his drug-taking habit, and hit him over the head. The shooting took place at a shop in Village 3 of Nong Bon Daeng sub-district. “I vowed to kill them all and on the day of the shooting saw them gathered in a drinking circle outside the dried goods shop,” he told police later.
One report said he drank a beer at a table next to theirs to get up the courage, then went to his home behind the shop to fetch his gun. Another report said he turned up on his motorbike, calmly gave the men a wai, and without saying a word opened fire.
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| Supaporn |
Mr Kan fled to his father-in-law’s place in Phanat Nikom district where reports said he intended to kill his wife and her dad. However, police arrived after hearing about the earlier shooting, and he fled into a plantation at the rear of the house.
Police say he seemed spooked, pointing the gun to his own head repeatedly. They talked him down over the next four hours, finally convincing him to lay down the weapon and give up. They seized an 11mm calibre Colt with 21 bullets.
Apologising to her family, Mr Kan’s mother, Jew Saegnui, 58, said her son had a psychiatric condition but stopped taking his meds over a year ago.
Police were forced to abandon a crime-scene re-enactment when family members charged at him. Police charged Mr Kan with murder with intent, attempted murder and firearms offences.
Panties too much to bear
Ban Sadet police nabbed Sayan Kongkam, 53, for killing Chankaew Puangkhan, 63, outside their shanty-style house in Ban Sadet, Muang district on May 30.
He struck Chankaew’s head with the axe. She also had a broken upper right arm, broken left arm, and showed signs of having been throttled. Mr Sayan, who has been treated for a psychiatric condition for the past four to five years, was waiting for police when they arrived.
He said he attacked his wife after she hung her underwear to dry on the line above the rattan sling bed on which he was resting. Some Thais object to underwear, a lower-body garment associated with base things, being strung above their heads, a “higher” part of the body. “I complained and asked her to move it but she refused,” he told police.
Panties too much to bear
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| Chankaew |
A Lampang man killed his wife with a small axe after she strung up her underwear over his head.
Ban Sadet police nabbed Sayan Kongkam, 53, for killing Chankaew Puangkhan, 63, outside their shanty-style house in Ban Sadet, Muang district on May 30.
He struck Chankaew’s head with the axe. She also had a broken upper right arm, broken left arm, and showed signs of having been throttled. Mr Sayan, who has been treated for a psychiatric condition for the past four to five years, was waiting for police when they arrived.
He said he attacked his wife after she hung her underwear to dry on the line above the rattan sling bed on which he was resting. Some Thais object to underwear, a lower-body garment associated with base things, being strung above their heads, a “higher” part of the body. “I complained and asked her to move it but she refused,” he told police.
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| Sayan |
Next, he grabbed his wife around the throat, forced her to her feet, and struck her with a piece of wood from nearby. She begged for her life but died later from her injuries.
His father, Charoen, 74, said he was tending the pineapple field about 100m away and heard his daughter-in-law screaming. “I rushed over and saw my son beating her with a piece of wood. I tried to wrest the wood away, but was hit in the left eye and left arm. Finally, I begged my son to stop by giving him a wai.”
Mr Charoen said his son takes meds for his condition. “Two months ago, the doctor changed his meds, and my son started behaving strangely. He would not respond in conversation, and was easily irritated.”
His father, Charoen, 74, said he was tending the pineapple field about 100m away and heard his daughter-in-law screaming. “I rushed over and saw my son beating her with a piece of wood. I tried to wrest the wood away, but was hit in the left eye and left arm. Finally, I begged my son to stop by giving him a wai.”
Mr Charoen said his son takes meds for his condition. “Two months ago, the doctor changed his meds, and my son started behaving strangely. He would not respond in conversation, and was easily irritated.”
After attacking his wife, Mr Sayan appeared to be seized by remorse. He dragged his wife’s body out to the front of the hut, sat her on his lap and shook her, trying to wake her up. However, she was already dead.
Mr Charoen said he alerted the police, who charged his son with intentional killing. Watcharapol Kladneam, 33, the victim’s son by a previous marriage, travelled to Lampang for the funeral from Bangkok.
He said his mother had assured him she could control Mr Sayan’s erratic behaviour. “When his condition flares, he has fits and is no longer aware of what he is doing. I warned Mum against spending too much time with him alone and urged her to see relatives or head into the community,” he said in tears.
Mr Charoen said he alerted the police, who charged his son with intentional killing. Watcharapol Kladneam, 33, the victim’s son by a previous marriage, travelled to Lampang for the funeral from Bangkok.
He said his mother had assured him she could control Mr Sayan’s erratic behaviour. “When his condition flares, he has fits and is no longer aware of what he is doing. I warned Mum against spending too much time with him alone and urged her to see relatives or head into the community,” he said in tears.
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