attempted to commit suicide to fend off imprisonment
As police released more details about the grisly death of a young girl about to enter college, a young male suspect was in officers prison on Wednesday after allegedly trying to kill himself to escape imprisonment.
Only hours later, on Wednesday morning, when the woman’s bound, bagged, and handless body was discovered among trash beneath the Udon Ratthaya Expressway in the Phon Bang Phun in Pathum Thani, police detained the 18-year-old suspect.  ,
A motorcyclist had been seen , dumping something there , about 5am by a car mechanic in a garage. When questioned, the motorcyclist had replied it was a” thing he loved”.
According to a source, the suspect tried to kill himself by taking pills while being apprehended in a housing estate in Pathum Thani. He was taken to Pathum Thani’s Krung Siam St. Carlos Hospital by police.  ,
Pathum Thani police chief, Pol Maj Gen Yutthana Jonkhun, said investigators looked at surveillance camera footage of the roads leading from the location where the body was discovered.
The case involved investigators from Pathum Thani police, Provincial Police Region 1, and Pak Klong Rangsit police station.
They named the suspect only as Thanakorn, 18, of Bangkok, and the victim as Waranya, also aged 18, of Uttaradit.  , Both were about to enter university as freshman students.
The suspect’s elder brother, who lives in the same house, claimed to have heard his brother argue with his girlfriend in their room at night. He yelled at them to stop, and they all sat still.
The older brother claimed that when he and his girlfriend left for work on Wednesday at around 6am, they noticed that his younger brother’s motorcycle had some fresh red marks on it. He was unsure whether it was blood or not.
About noon, he received a call from his mother, asking him to return to the house and check on his brother. When he arrived, the door to Thanakorn’s bedroom was locked. He entered through the door and observed his young brother lying unconscious and convulsing. He thought his brother tried to kill himself.
Their parents arrived later, and then the police, the suspect’s brother said.
The suspect was unable to provide his side of the story. According to the police source, he was still being treated in a hospital in Pathum Thani.
The home where the alleged murder took place was being looked at by forensic officers. The father informed the police that his son had a history of mental illness and had received treatment.
On Wednesday night, police reported that it took about two hours to track the suspect to a housing estate in Rangsit. Commissioner of , Provincial Police Region 1. For three years, the suspect and the victim had lived together.  ,
After allegedly having a fight with his girlfriend, the suspect allegedly left the house to dump the body around 5am. On returning to the house, he took an overdose of pills, but his elder brother came to his rescue.
The suspect had a long history of obscenity and had been receiving mental health care at a hospital. According to Pol Lt Gen Jirasan, a court had granted him an arrest warrant for the murder and body concealment.
There were blood stains in the bathroom in the victim’s bedroom. Police had also found a blood- stained machete. The search was continuiing for the victim’s missing hands.  ,
Rescue workers took the victim’s body to the Justice Ministry’s Central Institute of Forensic Science for autopsy.
The young woman’s body will be removed from Pathum Thani’s site beneath the Udon Ratthaya Expressway as rescue workers work. ( Photo supplied/Wassayos Ngamkham )
The woman’s body was discovered tied around her knees, waist, and neck with three black belts, which were worn by Phranakhon Rajabhat University students. From the waist down, her legs were fastened with coat hangers.  ,
She had slash wounds to her neck, and both of her hands had been severed at the wrists. Her hands were mssing.
Initial reports in Thai media stated that she was only wearing a skirt, but later claimed she was unclothed.
Thongdaeng Bonsungnern, 49, owner of a car garage beneath the expressway, said he saw a man riding a motorcycle dump something beneath the expressway about 5am. At the time, Mr. Thongdaeng had been sleeping inside his car.
The motorcyclist initially made an attempt to cover the object with grass before picking up bags of garbage lying nearby and dumping them over the spot before removing his bike.
About 8am, Mr Thongdaeng’s wife Amphawan Sudsawang, 46, saw the garbage scattered over the area,  , went to look closer and saw what appeared to be a human foot. She immediately called police.