Woman arrested for hitman murder of playboy husband
published : 15 Jun 2022 at 16:18
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Wassayos Ngamkham
A woman has allegedly admitted hiring the hitman who killed her playboy husband, telling police she was angered by his many affairs with other women.
When police found Charoensri Thongkham, 41, she was working as a masseuse in Bang Khen district, and was arrested there on Tuesday.
Ms Charoensri told police she had lived with her husband for 11 years. He had changed a lot and had affairs with other women. Worse still, he had spent money she earned and gave it to those women.
When she learned what was going on they had quarrelled frequently and he often physically assaulted her.
She said she loved him but was afraid he might kill her some day, because he often carried a gun. So she allegedly hired a hitman to kill him first. It cost her 100,000 baht.
When the hitman killed her husband he allegedly stole his gold necklace and his gun.
Ms Charoensri was being held in police custody.
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Vocabulary
- affair: a sexual relationship between two people, especially when one of them is married to someone else - ความสัมพันธ์เชิงชู้สาว
- afraid (adj): scared -
- allegedly: claimed to have done something wrong, but not yet proven - ที่ถูกกล่าวหา
- assault (verb): to attack someone violently, either physically or in some other way, e.g., smell - ทำร้ายร่างกาย, ทำร้าย
- custody: the state of being in prison or under police control, especially while waiting for trial - การกักขัง, การคุมขัง
- earn (verb): to get something that you deserve, usually because of something good you have done or because of the good qualities you have - ได้รับ, สมควรได้รับ
- frequently: happening often - บ่อยๆ
- hitman: a person who is paid to kill someone - นักฆ่ามืออาชีพที่ใช้ปืนเป็นอาวุธ
- masseuse: a woman whose job is to give people massages - หมอนวดที่เป็นหญิง
- quarrelled: argued, disagreed noisily - โต้เถียง
