Take your meds, dear
Jatupol being consoled by police
The suspect, identified as Jatupol, or “Golf” (no surname given) had been unemployed for nearly two years after returning from work outside the province.
He lived with his mother, 54-year-old Jarasrat, in a two-storey wooden house in Ban Phai district.
Cries for help were heard from the house on Thursday morning, as captured by CCTV outside the house. When the noise suddenly stopped, locals rushed over but found the door locked.
Forcing their way in, they saw Jatupol sitting cross-legged beside his mother’s body, apparently meditating.
Her face was swollen and bruised, the result of a fight with her son as she tried to fend off his attack.
Police said he beat and kicked her, and repeatedly slammed her head against a wooden post.
Police took him into custody. Under questioning, Jatupol admitted he had lashed out at his mother after she tried to make him take pills for depression.
He insisted he was healthy and “normal”, though he confessed to being under stress and wanting to be left alone.
The village headman said Jarasrat had long been worried about her son’s behaviour.
Although he had no criminal record and no sign of drug use, she noticed him becoming withdrawn and listless.
Two days before the killing, he had gone to sleep at a local temple. Concerned, his father brought him home, and his mother stayed with him in the house to keep watch.
Out of desperation, she obtained sedatives from relatives and tried to give them to him. That confrontation, police believe, escalated into a quarrel that ended in her death.
Officials described Jatupol as quiet and polite, someone who liked music and had never caused trouble.
His clean background made the killing all the more shocking to those who knew the family.
His grandfather, Thikun, 80, said Jatupol had long exhibited signs of mental health struggles.
For the past two to three years, he had displayed depressive symptoms and unusual behaviour.
After returning from working outside the province, he struggled with stress, debt and high personal ambitions — including dreams of building a shopping mall in his hometown.
In the nights leading up to the tragedy, Jatupol would talk to himself and even carry a small knife around the house, out of fear or paranoia.
He had also written letters wishing others well, which the grandfather described as “strange” but not suicidal.
On the morning of the incident, Jarasrat went to get the meds for her son. He refused the pills, insisting he was healthy, leading to their row.
Grandad Thikun said he could hear repeated thuds, suggesting she was being struck, and called on neighbours to help, but it was too late to save her.
While he stayed at his grandfather’s house, he appeared increasingly stressed and withdrawn, refusing offers to seek medical treatment.
Police say they are still investigating before pressing formal charges.
Rising to the challenge
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| Medics at the scene of the teen stabbing |
A Nonthaburi teen was stabbed after daring two teens wielding a knife to attack him.
The boy, unnamed in reports, was in a critical condition after being stabbed in the chest, while a friend sustained a knife wound to his arm, following the clash between the pair and another group of youths at a red light in Pak Kret district.
District police received a report of the stabbing in Ban Mai subdistrict. They found a 17-year-old male, identified only as A, with a serious stab wound to the chest.
He was taken to Chulabhorn Hospital. His friend, B, 16, suffered a stab wound to his right arm and was also hospitalised.
B told police that he was riding pillion on a motorcycle with A on a late-night food run when they stopped at a red light.
Another motorcycle carrying two teens pulled up in front and blocked the way.
A asked them to move aside, but instead they reversed to obstruct his path, sparking an argument.
The two rivals then pulled out knives and brandished them.
A shouted back: “If you’re carrying knives, do you dare stab us?”
One of the assailants took up the challenge, lunged forward and stabbed both A and B before fleeing.
B said he had never seen the attackers before but could identify them and their motorcycle, as neither wore helmets.
Police have reviewed CCTV footage along the escape route and confirmed the suspects’ identities.
They have contacted their parents to arrange for the teens to surrender.
Beast turns on owner
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| The buffalo which lost its cool |
A Buri Ram family wasted no time in putting a buffalo on the market after it gored its owner to death.
The five-year-old buffalo, normally peaceful, turned on its owner as he led it down to a pond.
Shocked relatives, fearing further attacks, promptly announced the male buffalo would be sold for 50,000 baht.
The attack took place near a public reservoir in Nang Rong district.
Police, rescue workers and a doctor found Vasant Komkamin, 59, lying dead by the water’s edge, his stomach ripped open and head gashed.
The buffalo was herded back into its pen to prevent more bloodshed.
Villagers said the victim had lovingly raised the animal since it was young.
Vasant had taken the buffalo to graze and bathe at the pond every day, and it had never shown any signs of aggression before.
No one witnessed the actual attack.
Vasant’s sister, Sombun, said the family kept eight buffalo in total. Her brother had two of them, including the one that attacked him.
“He raised it since it was small. We don’t know why it suddenly turned and killed him. It has never hurt anyone before.”
Shaken by the incident, the family immediately decided to sell the buffalo.
One buyer aware of the family’s rush to sell the animal offered just over 30,000 baht, but the family is holding out for 50,000.
“We’ve raised it for years, it’s worth at least that much. But we can’t keep it — what if it attacks someone else?”
Another sister, Udomporn, added: “We all raise buffalo, it’s what we do.
“My brother always took them to drink and swim here. None of us ever thought one would kill him.”
Police confirmed no foul play was suspected — the buffalo was indeed the killer. The body was released to the family for religious rites.
Thief’s wai to the spirits
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| The thief takes an incense burner |
A Chachoengsao temple is pleading for the return of an antique brass incense burner, which a CCTV camera caught a man stealing.
The thief raised his hands to offer a wai to the spirits before making off with a burner from Wat Suwan Temee in Bang Nam Priao district.
Temple staff are now pleading for its return, citing its sentimental and spiritual value to the community.
Assistant monk Phra Apiwat, 46, showed reporters the Luang Pu shrine behind the bell tower where the theft occurred.
The shrine houses statues of former abbots and their brass urns, where residents worship.
The antique brass burner, a showcase of the shrine, was stolen on Aug 27. It is over 80 years old.
Phra Apiwat said the shrine previously held a donation box for water and electricity fees, but it had been broken into multiple times, and the money inside stolen.
The abbot moved the donation box to the main hall for safety.
Soon after, a thief took the incense burner, with the act captured on CCTV.
A stocky man walks into the temple, pauses to glance around the Luang Pu shrine and, perhaps fearing the consequences of his sin, raises his hands in a wai to the Buddha inside.
He pulls up his shirt to cover his face, then places the 3kg burner — valued at 30,000 baht — into a black bag he had brought with him.
Calmly, he walks out as if nothing had happened.
The abbot filed a police report at Chim Phli station, but the thief has yet to be caught.
Locals say the burner was donated by ancestors and carries deep spiritual significance.
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