Female official shot dead in Pathum Thani

[StrontiumDog]

Female official slain in Pathum Thani | Bangkok Post: breakingnews

Female official slain in Pathum Thani

• Published: 15/10/2012 at 12:32 PM
• Online news:

A woman employed by the Provincial Administration Department was attacked and killed in Lam Luk Ka district of Pathum Thani province while driving to work early Monday morning.

Pol Maj Saman Semi, an investigator at Lam Luk Ka police station, said the shooting occurred about 6.30am between kilometre markers 23-24 near Khlong Sip bridge on Phahon Yothin road in tambon Bung Thong Lang of Lam Luk Ka district.

The body of Suri Yuwadamrongchai, 45, of the Bang Nam Priew district office in Chachoengsao province, was found in a brown Toyota Vios that had skidded off the road and rammed into a power pole.

Mrs Suri was hit by three bullets - one in the head and two in the neck. Four bullet holes were found on the right front glass window of the car.

According to witnesses, her car came under attack while she was driving to her office in Bang Nam Priew district.

Police were investigating the motive for the killing.


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[StrontiumDog]

Husband held in shooting - The Nation

Husband held in shooting

The Nation October 23, 2012 7:37 pm


The husband of a senior provincial administrative official shot dead in Pathum Thani last week was arrested yesterday along with three accomplices including the alleged hit man.

While he reportedly confessed to having his second wife murdered out of rage, police suspect the husband was also after her money.

At 7am on October 15, Suree Yuwadamrongchai was shot dead in her car in Lam Luk Ka district.

Somkuan Kaewkhiew, 47, the husband, was suspected of being the procurer; Danai Matarat, 29, the getaway motorbike driver; Pawin Kongmeng, 26, the hit man; and Thammanoon Boonwai, 36, the boss of a gun-for-hire gang. The weapon and motorbike used in the attack were also seized.

Somkuan allegedly claimed he often quarrelled with his hot-tempered wife, who held a grudge against him and pestered his first wife and children in Ayutthaya by phone. He said she also didn't let him take the district-clerk post in another province and threatened him, so he hired the gunman for Bt600,000 to get rid of her.

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Utterly callous.
These people aren't Buddhists.
They all pay lip service to Buddhism though, and are scared stiff of the spirit world.

I hope the four of them rot and go insane in jail.

[goostewart]

600k? That is quite a lot of money for the hit...

[ENT]

He must have thought he was going to get some massive pay-off, I can't imagine it was mainly about loss of face.

Ah well, the dummy's lost the lot now.

[taxexile]

These people aren't Buddhists.

they are neanderthal meatheads, they cannot understand that actions have consequences, they are ruled by their primeval urges, urges that are reflexively acted upon , urges that are not tempered by reason or thought, urges fuelled by a sense of entitlement, by greed, jealousy and hate, urges that in people of a more intelligent nature might be counterbalanced by rational thought before irreversible action is taken.

there are many like this in this lawless failed state.

[Sailing into trouble]

SIckening this seems to happen on a regular basis. But do these sad bastards not read the papers. The cops seem always to catch the bad guys before they make it home!

[ENT]

^^ Very true and ^ no, they simply don't think beyond the moment, feelings predominate.

Sad sacks, the lot of them, molly coddled since birth and think that they have the right to do anything if they can get away with it, must be something in the water.

[Zooheekock]

urges fuelled by a sense of entitlement, by greed, jealousy and hate

Ha ha! No shortage of that round these parts.

[Rocksteady]

There's a reason why this country isn't developed - they haven't made it to the enlightenment and are suspended in the 5th dimension left far behind by the West- buried in the mists of time.

It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow - between science and superstition and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is a dimension of chaos - it is an area we call Thailand!

[StrontiumDog]

Sweet talk leads police to hit men | Bangkok Post: news

Sweet talk leads police to hit men

Husband charged in shooting murder of cancer-stricken wife

• Published: 29/10/2012 at 12:00 AM
• Newspaper section: News

When Somkuan Kaewkiew started referring to his dead wife as "darling dearest", police in Pathum Thani figured something was amiss.


Amnat: ‘A drama script’

The man's wife, Suree Yuwadamrong, 48, a provincial administration official and terminal cancer patient, was found murdered inside her Toyota Vios on Oct 15 in Lam Luk Ka district. She had been shot multiple times.

Police called Mr Somkuan, 47, in for questioning, believing him to be the person with the strongest links to the victim and hoping he might be able to offer some clues to investigators.

Pol Col Amnat Chancharoen, deputy superintendent of Pathum Thani police, said officers originally mulled over three possible motives for the murder _ adultery; financial debts; and an alleged graft offence at the administration office, for which Suree was facing a disciplinary inquiry at the time of her death.

Pol Col Amnat said that after witnesses and evidence were examined, investigators analysed video footage taken of the crime scene, but it proved inconclusive. The pillion-riding motorcycle gunman who shot Suree could not be seen clearly in the footage _ he and the driver were both wearing helmets.

Police then turned their attention to the testimony of Mr Somkuan, the victim's husband.

Mr Somkuan told police he and his wife were very much in love. He told them he would rise early to go to work and kiss his wife on her cheek while she was still asleep, before leaving home. When he arrived in his office, he would call Suree to wake her up, Mr Somkuan told police.

He told police that the moment he learned of his wife's murder, he fainted from distress.

"We knew this didn't add up. We thought it was like he was trying to write a drama script or something," Pol Col Amnat said.

Police began digging into Mr Somkuan's personal life and assets.

They ran checks on his mobile phone records around the time of his wife's death, and made a startling discovery.

Shortly before the murder, Mr Somkuan made frequent calls to two numbers which had not been saved in his mobile phone's contact list. After his wife was killed, he never called the numbers again.

Pol Col Amnat said investigators spent three days tracing the numbers, one of which was discovered to belong to Krit Polsakoo, 41, from Nakhon Pathom.

A search of Mr Krit's phone records showed he had been in contact with a suspected figure in the Phrong Madua hitman syndicate based in Nakhon Pathom. One of the numbers Mr Krit called belonged to a suspected gunman in the syndicate.

On Oct 1, police raided one of the gang's hideouts in the province, where they captured Pawin Kongmeng, 26, the alleged shooter, along with alleged syndicate leader Thammanoon Boonwai, 36, and Danai Matarat, 29, who allegedly drove the motorcycle in the shooting.

The three suspects were interrogated by Pathum Thani police, and allegedly admitted that Mr Somkuan had hired them to kill his wife, with Mr Krit acting as the broker.

Arrest warrants were issued for Mr Somkuan on charges of premeditated murder, and the other suspects for a variety of charges including colluding to murder and possessing firearms without permission.

Mr Krit has so far escaped arrest.

Pol Col Amnat said Mr Somkuan later confessed to the contract killing, saying he was fed up with his wife's temper and her erratic behaviour. Mr Somkuan and Suree often argued, Pol Col Amnat said, and she often called his previous wife and caused her trouble.

Mr Somkuan allegedly told police he paid Mr Krit 200,000 baht to find a gunman, who he then paid another 600,000 baht to carry out the killing.

"We worked our hardest to solve this case. The victim was brutally killed, even though she was suffering from cancer. She didn't have very long to live and her husband still did this to her," Pol Col Amnat said.