CHIANG MAI: Police arrested the prime suspect in the gruesome murder of a teaching couple in Rayong, along with a man accused of helping him flee.
Supakrit Sujasee, a native of Saraphi district, and Panuphong Bualoy were arrested early yesterday as they were trying to flee to Myanmar.
Supakrit: Plans to flee thwarted
Mr Supakrit, 22, was wanted on charges of premeditated murder and theft. He is accused of killing Arocha Supanith, 33, a physics teacher at Assumption College Rayong, and his wife Preeyaporn Piang-ngam, 33, a mathematics teacher at the school.
The husband and wife were found dead with multiple stab wounds in their two-storey home in Rayong on Thursday afternoon and their 600,000-baht Ducati motorcycle was missing. The bike was found on Friday at a motorcycle shop in Chon Buri.
Media reports said autopsy results showed the couple had been shot in the head before being stabbed. The suspect reportedly went to the couple's home on the pretext of buying the motorcycle that Arocha advertised for sale. Thai media reported police had examined CCTV images which showed the suspect entering the teachers' house and later riding away on the bike.