Ex-boyfriend gunned down as intruder in Bangkok

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Ex-boyfriend gunned down as intruder in Bangkok

By The Nation

 

 

A man was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly shooting dead his girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend at her Bangkok townhouse.
 

Manachai Watanamara, 42, told police that he emptied his pistol into Natthapol Traiprawt, 29, because he thought Natthapol was a burglar.

 

Natthapol was killed outside the bathroom on the top floor of a three-storey townhouse owned by Orathai Baithao, 36, on Soi Chokchai 4 in Lat Phrao district.

 

Chokchai police were called at 5.20am and found Natthapol dead with gunshot wounds to the left wrist and left thorax.

 

Orathai told police she’d broken up with Natthapol years ago but he kept asking that they reunite.

 

On Tuesday morning, she said, he’d scaled the fence and broke into the house. She heard someone trying to get into her bedroom and called Manachai.

 

Manachai said Natthapol ran into the bathroom when he arrived and he assumed it was a burglar. He told him to come out, then fired at the bathroom door twice.

 

Natthapol came out and ran towards him, so he fired five more times.

 

Police found seven spent 9mm shells.

 

Manachai was charged with intentional murder.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30351630

 

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[Classic Ray]

Gun properly licensed? Why not just tell him you are armed, to stay in bathroom and call police? Didn’t woman recognise his voice, or just everyone shoots first and asks questions afterwards? Idiot + gun = dead fool.

[thesetat2013]

intentional murder? Perhaps I read this all wrong.. but it seems to me that a man broke into their home... when confronted through the bathroom doors he bursts out and runs towards the shooter.. seems like self defence to me.. surely not intentional murder unless the police are withholding some facts. 

[Cereal]

Shades of Oscar Pistorius.

[Aussieroaming]

1 hour ago, Cereal said:

Shades of Oscar Pistorius.

Shades of Pistorius' fantasy excuse you mean. 

[connda]

No such thing as a Castle Doctrine here in Thailand.  Kill someone in self-defense in the confines of your own home and it's 'intentional murder'. 

[oldrunner]

I'll have to bear in mind this "Intentional Murder" law in our land of Smiles.

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

It's a twisted world here...

 

The actual killers walk free or never are charged here.  But kill someone in self defense in your own (GF's) home after they've broken in at night, and you're charged with intentional murder.