A 10 baht knife did the job
Scene of the killing at the eatery
Muang police last week nabbed Munkong Sukmanee, 41, described as “still and dangerous” in media reports, after slaying his ex-girlfriend Parichat, 37, as she was having a meal with friends.
CCTV cameras showed Mr Munkong, out of work and reduced to getting about on a borrowed pink bicycle after Parichat refused to return his ATM card, turn up at the store where she was dining and ask for his money and the return of his ATM card.
He remained on his bike initially, and addressed Parichat as she sat with her friends over their hotpot meal in front of the shop.
“Can I have my 1,000 baht,” he asks. “We have to help each other, and if we stop seeing each other, we should end things well.”
“You can’t have it, because you hit people,” she replies in front of her friends. “I still carry the bruises.”
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| Munkong Sukmanee |
When the pair were together, Mr Munkong had entrusted his ATM card to Parichat so she could pay the bills. However, since they broke up a month ago she had yet to return it.
Worse, Mr Munkong had learned that she had since lent 1,000 baht of his money to her ex-boyfriend, Tum, with whom she had taken up again after leaving Mr Munkong.
Mr Munkong asked how she could afford to dine with friends if she was out of money as she claimed. A friend pipes up, saying she was paying first and Parichat had agreed to reimburse her at the end of the month.
Parichat and her friends, employees at a nearby petrol station, were meeting for a meal after work. Mr Munkong had also worked there as a general cleaner, but had since lost his job. He complained to friends that he was behind on the rent and in danger of being evicted.
Mr Munkong had biked to the store earlier and sat there impassively as she and her friends had their meal, but said nothing. When he returned later and asked for his money from Parichat, he came armed with a kitchen knife.
After she fatefully refuses to part with his cash, Mr Munkong pronounces: “In that case, you have to die.”
He calmly leaves his bike, walks over to Parichat as she sits at the table, and brings out the knife. He slashes her throat and stabs her in the chest multiple times as her friends scream and flee in shock. She remains seated for a moment before toppling to the ground.
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| 10-baht weapon |
One of her friends at the table, Tuk, said she knew the victim for many years. She was aware of Mr Munkong’s money problems and the fact that Parichat refused to return his card.
She was also aware she had gone back to her ex-boyfriend, Tum, and lent him Mr Munkong’s money.
“Parichat is like someone who suffers from an illness where she can’t be without a man in her life for even a minute,” she said. “I warned her about the possible consequences of such behaviour, and they came true,” she said.
Soi Khaodang, 63, who runs a food store in the soi, said she spoke to Mr Munkong earlier that evening.
She said he would often complain about his problems when he turned up for a meal. She had loaned him the bike he was getting around on, as he didn’t have the 500 baht to pay for it.
"Today I will go and clear things with her... I will kill her,” he declared.
When his meal was over he reached for her kitchen knife, but Ms Soi swatted his hand away and smacked it once as if to reprimand him for having bad thoughts.
He left the shop and an hour or so later returned on his bike. “Aunty, I’ve killed her now,” he said, before continuing on his journey.
Ms Soi said she didn’t believe he would actually harm anyone, as he was not the hot-tempered type.
“I was shocked to find out later that he had stabbed Parichat to death,” she said. “He went and bought a knife after I refused to let him have mine.”
CCTV vision shows him dropping into a 20 baht store after his meal at Ms Soi’s place, where he bought the murder weapon for 10 baht.
Mr Munkong, who said he asked the victim for the return of his money and card so he could go back to his home province of Surin, admitted the crime. Police charged him with premeditated murder.
Festering dispute erupts
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| The dogs which caused the row |
A fight over dogs in Chachoengsao escalated into a punch-up at a market and finally the brutal slaying of one neighbour by another.
Muang police last week nabbed Kamol Puangsee, 43, for killing his neighbour, Sujarit Sukaching, 38, with whom he earlier had a bust-up at a local market.
He also shot Sujarit’s wife, Chalinee Puangsee, 25, twice in the leg after the pair exchanged words and he hit her.
The two families, who live next to each other without an adjoining fence, are related and once treated each other civilly, neighbours say.
However, that changed when their dogs bit each other a couple of years ago. Since then they had openly skirmished, with the victims mocking Mr Kamol for his limp, after he injured his right leg in an accident.
Mr Kamol, who admits the killing, shot the pair with a 9mm calibre handgun through a window behind their house.
This followed the fight at the market with Sujarit, caught on CCTV, and the encounter with Sujarit’s wife Ms Chalinee.
Uthen Jamhathai, 48, Ms Chalinee’s older brother, said she called to say Mr Kamol and Sujarit had come to blows at the market.
Locals intervened and they went their separate ways. Mr Kamol drove back home, saw Ms Chalinee there, and still unhappy after the run-in at the market, abused her and hit her, he said.
“She called her husband, asking him to take her to hospital, but when he returned, he abused Kamol, who grabbed his gun and shot them,” he said.
Reports say the killer fled the scene to regain his composure. He handed himself in to police later along with his weapon.
Police charged him with premeditated murder, but abandoned a plan for a crime reconstruction amid fears for his safety.
Officers say Mr Kamol was sorry for his actions and succumbed to the passion of the moment.
However, many relatives live next to each other in that area and could have attacked him in anger for what he did.
Kids save own parents
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| The tree where Theerapol tried to take his own life |
Quick action by two children in Khon Kaen helped save the lives of their parents after their Dad killed their Mum in front of their eyes, then tried to hang himself from a tree in the backyard.
Muang police last week nabbed Theerapol Puangroi, 45, after he stabbed his wife, Patcharin Puangroi, 40, 10 times shortly after she walked in the door after work.
Their children, no ages given, say their father walked over to their mother and stabbed her without a word.
When she fell to the ground, their father walked to the backyard and tried to hang himself with a loincloth from a Siamese rough bush tree.
However, the shocked children saw what was happening and raced to a neighbour for help.
Locals were able to get Theerapol down from the tree and call rescue workers to take his wife to hospital. Both were later declared out of danger, though have yet to talk to police.
A neighbour said the two were at odds after Mr Theerapol accused his wife of seeing someone else.
The pair had agreed to sign their divorce papers earlier the same day. It is unclear what happened to that arrangement.
Police had yet to charge Mr Theerapol as they waited to talk to him, though they had handcuffed him to his hospital bed.
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