Let's do it over again
A Lop Buri man said sorry to his wife's spirit on social media hours after shooting her dead in a dramatic confrontation in Phetchabun with her parents.
Channarong "Puak" Kingkham, 35, handed himself in to Si Thep police in Phetchabun after fatally shooting his wife, Ananyaporn "Kate" Phon-in, 23.
He shot her in the head and injured her parents after earlier chasing them from their Si Thep home in his pickup on June 18.
This followed an earlier fraught journey in which the couple picked up their daughter from Nakhon Nayok after she argued with Mr Puak.
Kate had asked to leave Mr Puak but he could not accept it, news reports said. He also believed her father, Kriengkrai, was trying to force them apart.
Mr Kriengkrai, who owns a well-known local eatery, said Mr Puak on June 16 "abducted" Kate from Lop Buri where they had been living as a couple and took her to Nakhon Nayok.
However, Kate was able to call her parents for help.
Before moving to Mr Puak's home in Lop Buri, and the alleged abduction incident in Nakhon Nayok, the pair had lived together at Kate's family-owned eatery in Si Thep district.
However, friends say they broke up after arguing over money.
The couple later made up, and Kate moved in to Mr Puak's place in Lop Buri. However, that arrangement wasn't to last either.
Speaking after the chase which left his daughter shot dead by the side of the road, Mr Kriengkrai said Mr Puak was hooked on gambling and had spent his way through 300,000 baht of her savings. He denied trying to keep the couple apart.
After he and his wife picked up Kate from Nakhon Nayok, they drove back to their home in Si Thep, only to find Mr Puak had arrived ahead of them and was lying in wait.
Mr Kriengkrai said he decided to seek help from friends, but when he arrived found no one home. Mr Puak, he said, tailgated them as they tried to flee.
Their vehicle turned into the road with the car repair yard. However, a truck was blocking their path, which forced them to stop. Mr Puak saw his chance and shot at his vehicle.
"I told my daughter and her mother to flee, but as Kate was getting out of the vehicle, he shot her in the head," Mr Kriengkrai said.
Mr Puak fled back to Lop Buri after the shooting but in a blizzard of social media posts before his eventual surrender back in Phetchabun the next day, apologised to his wife.
"In our next life I would ask to come back as husband and wife again. Don't let a cruel man like your father keep us apart."
Police charged him with premeditated murder and firearms charges.
Jealousy strikes
A jealous intruder stabbed the new boyfriend of his ex-lover in the foot, and remarked to a neighbour as he left that he was lucky he did not aim for his head.
Bang Sao Thong police in Samut Prakan were last week hunting for a man identified as Wen, who together with two friends burst into his ex-girlfriend's place and started stabbing her new boyfriend.
Anna, 21, said Wen and his mates turned up and created a hue and cry. She and her elder sister, who also lives at her housing authority flat, tried to stop them, without success.
Wen, she said, charged at her new boyfriend, Supakit, 19, who was resting on their bed. The two have been seeing each other for about a month.
Wen stabbed him in the foot, severing a tendon. After the confrontation, Wen and his mates fled.
Roongarun, 29, Anna's elder sister, said the intruders caused a commotion when they arrived and one pulled out a knife. "I tried to stop him but he pushed me away," she said.
Supakit said he was shocked to be attacked and did not know any of the young men who burst in.
Anna said she and her sister called the police, adding Wen was a possessive type who would not let her go.
A neighbour, responding to the noise, said she saw the young men leaving the apartment.
"When I asked what they were doing, one replied that his girl had taken a fancy boy home with her and she was lucky he didn't stab him in the head," the neighbour said. A man who left with him was holding the sheath for what looked like a knife. Police were looking for the trio.
Brutal end
A fisherman took 30 speed pills and in a drugged state beat his sleeping wife to death with a wooden coconut grater.
Nuea Klong police in Krabi nabbed Thanongsak "Bao" Yodnual, 35, for the death of his wife, Uthumporn Panrak, also 35.
He had just come back from a fishing trip in Surat Thani to see his wife and their one-year-old child when the couple argued.
He took the drugs, and in his spaced-out state thought his wife was about to harm him.
Police say he waited until she was asleep and beat her with the coconut grater about the face and head.
He covered the body with a mosquito net and left the house, taking their young child with him.
News reports say he told a local what he had done before taking shelter at a house nearby.
Neighbours tracked him down and held him until police arrived. They charged him with premeditated murder and drugs charges.
Phantom death
A Pathum Thani man was shocked to find a friend he had assumed was dead was in fact still alive, after a forensic doctor checked his pulse and found he was still breathing.
Wachirawit, 43, called police and rescue workers to an apartment in Klong Luang last week after finding his friend, Techit, 48, lying motionless in his room.
He and a mate gained entry through a window after he failed to hear from Techit for four days.
They found Techit's belongings scattered about, and Techit himself lying face down in a corner of the room.
Wachirawit, thinking Techit had died, called for help.
The rescue workers and police who turned up were accompanied by a forensic doctor from Thammasat University Hospital, who had expected to take the man's body back to the hospital morgue.
He checked Techit's pulse just to make sure, and found he was still alive. He was breathing shallowly and no doubt ill. The doctor quickly arranged for an ambulance.
A rescue worker at the scene said he was shocked to discover the man was still alive, as he could not see his body moving. There was no word on Techit's condition.
