‘Taen’ leaves trail of destruction
Taen in security guard gear.
Bang Lamung police were looking for a rabble rouser known as Taen (no surname given), 37, who throws his weight around in Na Kluea sub-district where he lives, media reports say.
Local Mum, Elle (no surname given), 36, took her son, Tang, 15, to lay a complaint after Taen assaulted him at a friend’s place and abducted him, while bringing along a woman acquaintance who herself fell victim to his wild rampage.
His bender appears to have lasted hours, and as victims come forward police have also learned that in another incident, Taen allegedly assaulted a man at a car repair yard, apparently without provocation.
Back to Tang’s saga, Elle said the beating left her teenage son with cuts to his left ankle, a swollen face, bloody eyes, and blood coming from his ears.
He met Taen a month ago through a friend. The older man turned up at the house he was staying in, pulled him from his bed, abducted him, and after a savage beating abandoned him unconscious by the side of the road, according to news reports.
After they first met, Tang said Taen tried to get him to do “bad things” such as delivering drugs, and beat him when he refused.
Fearing for his safety, he fled home to sleep with an ex-work friend of his mother’s in soi Thep Prasit of Nong Prue sub-district.
However, Taen found out where he was staying and on the night of Sept 30 turned up with a woman he knew and pulled him from his bed.
He took the pair to the community near Paekong shrine in Na Kluea sub-district. Elle, the mother, said Taen punched her son and kicked him until the boy fainted. Locals were able to take a partial clip of the beating.
“Taen said his girlfriend had left him and he blamed me for driving her away, even though I knew nothing about it,” Tang told police.
The young woman Taen brought with him, Noi (assumed name), 20, an assistant chief at a hotel in Pattaya, is another victim of the saga.
Noi, who did not spell out how they met, said Taen forced her to accompany him on his motorbike as he cruised about looking for his runaway girlfriend, and later abducted Tang.
Noi said he beat Tang and took the pair to a place in soi Chaipornwithi 8 in Nong Prue where he held the pair against their will. He ordered Tang into the bathroom so he could not watch, as he raped Noi to let off steam, news reports said.
Later he released Noi. She fled and told her boyfriend what happened, before laying a complaint with Nong Prue police. Elle, the teen’s mother, said Taen dumped her son unconscious by the roadside in soi Chaipornwithi 8. Locals found him and alerted police.
Meanwhile, Sarawut (no surname given) 28, who hails from Nakhon Ratchasima, also complained to Bang Lamung police, after Taen allegedly threw rocks at him and punched him.
“I was having a motorcycle repaired in the soi Na Klua area on Sept 30 when Taen walked up and hit me. We’d never had a problem before, I don’t know what provoked it,” he said.
Police are looking for Taen. The case continues.
Murder out of the ordinary
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| Big (wearing blue) at the scene of the crime by the pond. |
Locals in Songkhla are shocked at the cold-hearted way a schoolboy killed a classmate, supposedly after he criticised his Mum.
The body of Nong Fang (no surname given) a Mathayom 3 student, aged 15, lay by a deserted pond in Khlong Hoi Khong district for up to five days after his friend, Big (no surname given), 15, lured him to the spot, beat him, and returned later to strangle him.
He stole the boy’s motorcycle and left it with relatives of his girlfriend’s in Hat Yai, and his phone, which he later sold after blocking attempts by his worried family to track down the young man.
Khlong Hoi Khong police turned up at Big’s house to question the boy, as he was the last one to see the victim alive. The body was found by a mushroom picker on Sept 29 after the boy went missing five days earlier. Fang was seen leaving school with Big and one other boy about 1pm.
At first Big denied knowing what happened, saying Fang dropped him and his friend off at home, as was his custom, before taking off alone. However, after police probed further, he admitted the killing, saying Fang had insulted his mother so he attacked him to get even.
Fang was found wearing his school uniform. Bruises covered his body, as if he had been hit. He was found with nylon rope around his neck, which Big admitted using to strangle him.
Big, who was regarded as the leader of their “gang”, would regularly get Fang to take him home after school. However, on this occasion he ordered him to take him to the pond.
At some point Fang must have said something to annoy him. When they got off the bike they started hitting each other, but Fang was no match for the bigger boy’s strength, and was knocked out.
Big left on his motorcycle but later returned with a nylon rope, strangling the boy’s unconscious body. Later still, in another callous move, he took his girlfriend back to view the boy’s body, before taking the stolen motorcycle to Hat Yai and leaving him there.
Fang’s elder sister, Fern, says her brother normally takes his mother to work in the mornings and picks her up after school. “That day he didn’t turn up, which raised our concerns. His teacher and friends told us he came to school as usual; there were no dramas that day with his mates,” she said.
His family alerted police and posted to social media appealing for sightings. Fang’s granddad, unnamed in news reports, said he called the boy’s number.
“For the first two days it was ringing, until the person at the other end blocked us,” he said. Reports say Big later sold it to a shop in the area.
Police also spoke to the third boy on the bike that day, Sam (assumed name), who said he was shocked to hear Big had killed Fang.
He said the three took the same bike home about 1pm on Sept 24 after finishing their exams. “Fang took me home first, and I don’t know what happened after that. Big kept coming to school as usual, but Fang had vanished,” he said. “When they were on the motorbike together they were still talking nicely enough,” he added.
Police say they followed the signal of Fang’s phone to a location close to where Big lives, and about 3km from where the body was found. When they called, the recipient cut off the call.
They also tracked CCTV cameras and saw Big leaving the school that afternoon on Fang’s motorbike, with Fang on the back.
Big’s mother, who apologised to the victim’s family, said her son, the youngest of four, was a good student who showed no tendency to flare up in anger. Reports did not spell out what charges Big will face.
A complicated manoeuvre
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| The barn where Utt was found dead with his hands tied behind his back. |
Mystery surrounds the death of a man in Surin found strangled in a deserted barn with his hands tied behind his back.
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| Utt, as he was found |
While his family suspects he was depressed and may have taken his own life, locals wonder how he managed to tie his hands.
A rescue worker in Khok Takhian of Kap Choeng district, where the body was found, posted images of the body. The dead man was identified as Utt (no surname given), 41, and appeared to have been murdered, he said.
Utt was found in a rice barn with the light left on. He is thought to have slept there regularly since returning from the provinces a couple of years ago.
Police found a pair of scissors, a water canister, cigarette lighter, tobacco, and clothes. They also found a large pile of cigarette butts, as if the man had been smoking furiously beforehand as he decided whether to take such a fateful step.
Utt’s body was found seated, legs crossed, with his arms tied behind back and a rope around his neck. He is thought to have been dead for about two days.
No suicide note was found. That, and the fact his hands were tied, led to social media speculation that he may have met with foul play, though police have no suspect. They say they are keeping an open mind.
His elder sister, who lives in the provinces, said Utt had no problems with anyone, but may have been depressed. “Last month, when I returned for a relative’s funeral, he said he’d be the one who died next,” she said.
“I have no idea why my brother was speaking like that. But when I heard about his death, I was not surprised, and we do not suspect anything amiss,” she told reporters.
Netizens, who widely shared pictures of the body, said a man who strangles himself would presumably need to keep his hands free.
Police, who sent the body for an autopsy, said the rope fastening his hands was wound over rather than being tied in a hard-and-fast knot. Inquiries are continuing.
A rescue worker in Khok Takhian of Kap Choeng district, where the body was found, posted images of the body. The dead man was identified as Utt (no surname given), 41, and appeared to have been murdered, he said.
Utt was found in a rice barn with the light left on. He is thought to have slept there regularly since returning from the provinces a couple of years ago.
Police found a pair of scissors, a water canister, cigarette lighter, tobacco, and clothes. They also found a large pile of cigarette butts, as if the man had been smoking furiously beforehand as he decided whether to take such a fateful step.
Utt’s body was found seated, legs crossed, with his arms tied behind back and a rope around his neck. He is thought to have been dead for about two days.
No suicide note was found. That, and the fact his hands were tied, led to social media speculation that he may have met with foul play, though police have no suspect. They say they are keeping an open mind.
His elder sister, who lives in the provinces, said Utt had no problems with anyone, but may have been depressed. “Last month, when I returned for a relative’s funeral, he said he’d be the one who died next,” she said.
“I have no idea why my brother was speaking like that. But when I heard about his death, I was not surprised, and we do not suspect anything amiss,” she told reporters.
Netizens, who widely shared pictures of the body, said a man who strangles himself would presumably need to keep his hands free.
Police, who sent the body for an autopsy, said the rope fastening his hands was wound over rather than being tied in a hard-and-fast knot. Inquiries are continuing.
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