A man who was wanted for killing and burying a 53-year-old bank manager in Nonthaburi has been arrested in Bangkok.
Tasapong Suprom-in, 32, was apprehended by Nonthaburi investigators and Din Daeng police in Din Daeng district on Thursday. The suspect was then taken to the Sai Noi police station in Nonthaburi.
Mr Tasapong was wanted on an arrest warrant issued by the Nonthaburi Provincial Court for murder and concealment of a body, following a complaint lodged with police by the victim’s daughter, Kritika Hasadindetdamrong.
The body of Rotenaruebet Hasadindetdamrong, the manager of the Bangkok Bank headquarters branch on Silom Road in Bangkok, was found buried in the backyard his house in Sai Noi.
Ms Kritika and her cousin had gone to the house on Tuesday after her father had been missing for a few days. They encountered Mr Tasapong leaving the house, and later found a knife, a blood-stained rope and the body.
Police obtained an arrest warrant after surveillance camera video showed the suspect, a Nonthaburi native, cursing at Rotenaruebet in front of the victim’s house.
Pol Col Sakya Saengsaran, deputy commander of the Metropolitan Police Division 1, said the suspect told police that he had gone to see his employer last Saturday to ask for his wages, but Mr Rotenaruebet allegedly refused to pay him as stated in a contract. A quarrel then ensued.
The suspect claimed the victim assaulted him by striking him in the back first. In a fit of anger, he grabbed an electric fan and used it to strike his employer’s head before using the cord to strangle him to death. He then buried the body at the back of the house and spent two nights there.
Upon seeing the victim’s daughter on Tuesday evening, he immediately fled and took a taxi to Bangkok, police quoted the suspect as saying. He took the victim’s ATM card and 1,000 baht in cash. He was arrested at the entrance of Pracha Songkhroh Soi 14 in the Din Daeng area, said Pol Col Sakya.
The suspect, a native of Loei province, had been hired to repair the victim’s dormitory a few months before the murder, said the deputy commander.
