PATTAYA: A woman sought police help in Pattaya after escaping her abusive ex-boyfriend in Lop Buri province.
Pol Capt Sombut Keawmoonsuk, deputy inspector at Muang Pattaya station, said the victim, identified as Bam, 29, filed a complaint against her ex-boyfriend, Golf, accusing him of being a loan shark who abducted her from her home in Maha Sarakham province in the Northeast on May 6.
Police said Golf, 39, had been seeing Bam for a year before she asked to leave him due to his abusive nature.
The victim said the man would hit her, strangle her with a charging cable, threaten her life with a pistol, drown her in water and even handcuffed her while he slept at night, police said.
Police said she asked to leave him after she could no longer tolerate his conduct.
However, after one month, Golf and his friends turned up at her home and dragged her out at gunpoint. The man also threatened to kill her parents if they reported her abduction to the police, Pol Capt Sombut said.
Police said Golf drove the victim to a friend’s resort in Lop Buri.
There, he continued to assault her by hitting her face with his shoe and shooting steel pellets at her body, police said.
At one point, he forced her to lie on the floor while tattooing “STOP LOVE” on her chin.
The man also recorded them having sex to blackmail her from reporting his loan shark business to the police, police said, adding he threatened to destroy her life.
On May 12, Golf allegedly forced Bam to ride with him in a car to Bangkok. Along the way, she escaped and took a taxi to Pattaya, where she decided to file a police complaint. She said she was afraid to file a complaint in Lop Buri, as her ex-boyfriend was connected to the local police there.