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You are here: Home / News / World News / Thai serial killer, released from prison, arrested again

Thai serial killer, released from prison, arrested again

December 30, 2019 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By BUSABA SIVASOMBOON
Associated Press

BANGKOK (AP) —Thai police on Dec. 18 arrested a convicted serial killer who was accused of a fresh killing just seven months after his early release from prison.

Somkid Poompuang was arrested aboard a train after a nationwide manhunt launched when he was identified as a suspect in the Dec. 15 killing of a hotel maid in the northeastern province of Khon Kaen.

Somkid had been dubbed the “Jack the Ripper of Thailand’’ after being convicted in 2005 of killing five women who worked as nightclub entertainers and masseuses by strangling or drowning them. He was freed in May this year in what prison officials now say they regard as a misguided policy regarding well-behaved convicts.

Police Col. Khajornrit Wongrat, who is overseeing the investigation into the killing, said the woman, Rasamee Mulichand had met a man online and he had moved in to live with her in early December.

“She told her daughter and neighbors that she was going to marry the man on Dec. 15, which was the day she died. The boyfriend went missing on the day, too,“ Khajornrit said.

Photos that Rassamee posted on her Facebook page of her and her boyfriend led police to conclude that he might be Somkid, triggering a manhunt.

His photos and details were released to the public, with a reward of 50,000 baht ($1,655) offered for information leading to his arrest, along with a warning that he is very dangerous.

A student couple on a train going from the northeast to Bangkok phoned police to tell them he was sitting near them, and he was arrested when the train made a scheduled stop.

Corrections Department Director General Narat Sawettanan said at a news conference that releasing Somkid was a mistake and he appointed a committee to consider a new policy for reducing the sentences of well-behaved inmates.

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Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2019, 2020, DECEMBER 28, JANUARY 3, VOL 39 NO 1

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