Jealousy rears its head
An unsympathetic man admits brutally attacking his wife in a horrendous ordeal at their home when she admitted being unfaithful.
However, he insists he still loves her, "even though she has HIV".
Police last week arrested Paisan Upanta, 33, in his home province of Ubon Ratchathani, after he fled the scene of the attack on his wife four days before.
Mr Paisan admitted attacking his wife Narisara, 27, in their Bang Phli, Samut Prakan home, and fleeing back to Isan rather than facing the law.
Police took him back to Samut Prakan to face legal action when the pitiless nature of his crimes became clear. Mr Paisan, who performed a crime reconstruction for police, admitted tipping boiling water on his wife and penetrating her private parts with a sauce bottle.
The two had argued over his suspicions, which she confirmed, that Ms Narisara had been seeing someone else. "My wife told me she had been raped by a Myanmar guy at work, but also admitted seeing other men behind my back," he told police.
He visited the factory where she worked looking for the alleged rapist, but couldn't find him. "I had long suspected that my wife had found someone new, so asked for a divorce."
Rather than feel sorry for his wife's plight at the hands of the Myanmar man, Mr Paisan said he grew angry, especially as his wife explained what happened. "She said the Myanmar guy attacked her the first time they were together. The second time, he told her that if she did not consent to sex he would tell me, so she agreed," he said.
"I was making instant noodles and was gripped by anger, so I threw the boiling water at her. I also penetrated her vagina with a sauce bottle and hit her over the head with it.''
Ms Narisara said she fled their fourth-storey apartment by jumping from the balcony to the ground below.
She climbed a fence to seek help from a worker's camp nearby, but they told her to go elsewhere. She said she was forced to swim across a canal and seek help from a vehicle inspection business on the other side.
There, Ms Narisara was able to call rescue workers, who found her sitting on the back of a pickup, nursing her injuries and weeping.
Mr Paisan denied his wife was forced to jump for her safety, or that he had forced chili peppers into her private parts as punishment for her sexual transgressions, as some reports claimed.
"Even though I know my wife has HIV I look after her constantly, and I love her very much," he insisted.
Speaking to police, Ms Narisara said the couple had been married a little more than a year. "He asked to marry me just nine days after we met, and I didn't know at the time he was a drug abuser," she said.
"When he was high on drugs he'd start to hallucinate and think I was seeing someone else.
"He locked me inside and said if I got up he would stab me to death. After pouring boiling water on me, he attacked me repeatedly with the bottle. I decided to jump for my freedom."
Police, who say Mr Paisan has no history of trouble with the law, have charged him with indecent assault.
Hi-so scammer targets doctors
A Samut Prakan man who liked to pass himself off as a hi-so would draw close to doctors, steal their money and blackmail them into silence after filming them having sex, police say.
Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau police last week nabbed Phachara Niljeasakul, 32, at a department store in the Watthana area. They were acting on a complaint by a woman doctor who said Mr Phachara duped her into entering a relationship with him.
Over drinks, he drugged her and transferred 1 million baht from her account into his own via her banking app while she was unconscious.
Later, he tried to blackmail her into keeping quiet by threatening to release clips they made of the two of them having sex, she said.
The doctor decided to complain to police anyway, resulting in his arrest. While Mr Phachara denied the charges, police said they had found a pattern of similar offending going back a couple of years.
The complainant in the latest case said she met Mr Phachara online. He claimed he was a hi-so and after the pair grew close they agreed to start seeing each other.
One day the suspect laced her drink with a sedative, which knocked her out.
Police say the suspect then took her finger and scanned himself into her phone's banking app via a biometric scanning device. After stealing the money, he threatened her with blackmail if she complained.
Searching the suspect's place, police found the sedative Alprazolam, two medical gowns, three sets of women's underwear, and various electronic devices including a phone and a computer, which they seized.
They say Mr Phachara liked to target doctors, dentists and nurses with his scam as these people were too busy with their lives to pay much attention to his daytime activities. If they had, they would have realised he was not a hi-so as he claimed, but a common thief.
"He has a history of such offending, but the court keeps granting him bail so he goes back to doing the same thing again," one report said, quoting the police.
On Sept 14, 2021, Yannawa and Metropolitan Police Bureau police nabbed him after he targeted a doctor in a similar scam, when he stole 500,000 baht. On Oct 12 that year, Klong Tan and Metropolitan Police Bureau police nabbed him for duping another doctor, when he stole 100,000 baht. Police have once again charged him with fraud and attempted blackmail.
Big mouth comes at cost
A Nonthaburi man who liked abusing his neighbours when drunk was killed for his efforts, when one annoyed passerby returned and stabbed him in the back.
Bang Bua Thong police found Somchai Noitaek, 67, a gardener in a housing estate, dead on a wooden bed by the side of the road in soi Wat Khlong Ta Khlai 6, village 7 of the district.
He had been stabbed in the back and left side of the throat. His killer also slashed him across the face, and left the murder weapon at the scene by plunging it emphatically into the wooden seat, close to Somchai's body. Thai media reports said Somchai had been killed because of his nasty mouth.
Somchai's son, Panthong Noitaek, 26, said his father had been drinking with four or five friends from early evening when the killer, a local man who knew only as "Berm", went past on his motorcycle about 10pm. "My Dad abused him, upsetting Berm, who attacked him," he told police. "I saw my Dad covered in blood and tried to get help, but his drinking friends told me he was already dead."
Somchai, he said, enjoyed swearing at people when he was drunk. "Dad would abuse people who walked past, especially those he knows." On Wednesday, a day after the killing, suspect Wiroj (no surname given), 49, surrendered to police. He said Somchai had been abusing him for years. "The abuse would continue even if I tried to leave the scene, and he'd insult my relatives too," he said.
Somchai's behaviour disgusted locals, he said. On the day of the killing he just snapped, stabbing the victim with his knife. Police charged him with murder.
