Pair charged with slaying wife's lover

Pair charged with slaying wife's lover

A married couple has been arrested for the brutal murder of the husband of a local kamnan in Phichit whose naked, sexually mutilated body was found in a field.

Police question local residents after the murder of the husband of a local leader. Authorities on Thursday arrested a married couple for the murder. (Photo by Sitthipoj Kebui)

Noppadol Srithong, 40, known as Damnoen, and his wife Supranee Srithong, 37, were apprehened in a pre-dawn raid on their house in tambon Nernbo of Phichit’s Sam Ngam district on Thursday, police said. 

The couple has been charged with colluding in the murder and with theft related to the murder, of Amporn Damminsek, Ms Supranee’s lover.

Amporn, 49, the husband of Sakulta Damminsek, the sub-district chief of tambon Paikhwang in Muang district, was found murdered with his genitals cut off in a banana orchard along the Phichit River on Wednesday afternoon.

Mrs Sakulta had earlier filed a complaint with police asking them to find her husband who had been missing for a week. Amporn was wealthy and owned several rice harvesters worth several million baht. 

During interrogation, Mr Noppadol confessed to all charges, but Mrs Supranee, who was known to have been sexually involved with the victim, denied all charges, Thairath Online reported.

The duo were detained in Phichit Prison pending further investigation.

It was earlier reported Ms Supranee had an affair with Amporn with her husband's consent after the man promised her valuables and cash in return for her favours, and that he later reneged on the promise.

Pol Maj Gen Sirin Padungcheewit, deputy chief of Provincial Police Region 6, said investigators have sufficient evidence against the two accused, even though the woman pleaded her innocence. There were no other suspects in the case, and it was not complicated, he added 

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