Man ‘confesses’ to killing sister and her millionaire Brit husband

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Man ‘confesses’ to killing sister and her millionaire Brit husband

By NISANART KANGWANWONG, 
KRIANGKRAI RATTANA 
THE NATION

 

 

A BRITISH MILLIONAIRE and his Thai wife, who had been missing, were allegedly killed by her apparently vengeful brother in Phrae province.

 

“He resented being scolded by the couple,” Provincial Police Region 5 chief Poonsap Prasertsak said on Tuesday. 

 

He convened a press conference after the bodies of Alan Hogg, 64, and Nott Sudaen, 61, were found buried beside a creek on their vast plot in Tambon Chor Hae, Muang district. 

 

The authorities began searching for the couple after their friend told police she had been unable to contact them since September 19. 

 

 

The trail led to Nott’s elder brother, Warut Wattanasajjakit, his friend Pia Khamsai, both 63, and Kittipong Khamwan, 24. 

 

Warut reportedly told police that he had often been reprimanded by the couple. Anger from the scolding eventually drove him to plot their murder, he said. 

 

“He hired his friend to shoot Hogg for Bt50,000,” Pol Lt-General Poonsap said.

 

Police say the double murders took place at about 6pm last Tuesday after Marut allegedly offered the bounty to his two accomplices. 

 

According to investigators, Pia allegedly shot Hogg as he was leaving the house to feed his ducks. Meanwhile, Kittipong restrained Nott and Warut reportedly delivered the fatal blow to his sister’s head with a steel spanner. 

 

The three accomplices then allegedly used a mini bulldozer to bury the bodies deep by a creek on the property. Authorities had dug at the spot two days ago but failed to find the bodies. 

 

Police and rescue workers returned on Tuesday and dug deeper, revealing the two bodies lying in water seeping from the stream.

 

 

The second dig took place after police traced the couple’s pickup truck and found it was registered in the name of a Lao livestock vendor living in Thailand. The Lao man said he had bought the pickup from three men on September 21. Police traced and arrested the three sellers, who turned out to be Warut, Pia and Kittipong. 

 

The couple had been together for over 10 years and had bought more than 100 rai of land to farm in tambon Chor Hae. The property also housed a large home they had built.

 

“The brother claims he did not want the couple’s assets. He claims he sold the pickup only in the hope of funding their escape,” Poonsap said. 

 

Warut, Pia and Kittipong have been charged with pre-meditated murder. 

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30355204

 

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-09-25

[poohy]

63 and cant handle being scolded utter madness !

 

didn't want any money, thats good cause he cant spend over the next 20 years in prison

oh while we are here now about this brother

 

now how much did the rest of the family know?

[z42]

Utterly pathetic and tragic. This is 1 case where execution really is merited.

And every credit to the cops here. Once the spotlight has been on them they've fronted and got all these scumbags in real quick.

 

[theguyfromanotherforum]

Confession! 

 

Punishment will probably be halved to 250b and half a wai

[moe666]

More than likely borrowing money and finally told no. The Brit had the right to spend his money as he saw fit but why flaunt your wealth in a poor country next to poor relatives.

[thequietman]

28 minutes ago, poohy said:

63 and cant handle being scolded utter madness !

It's called FACE and it is and continues to be, the downfall of this country.

 

Lovely country but needs a population transplant.

[LomSak27]

17 minutes ago, moe666 said:

More than likely borrowing money and finally told no. The Brit had the right to spend his money as he saw fit but why flaunt your wealth in a poor country next to poor relatives.

  Its all about flaunting wealth eh.... conducting a seance are we?!    ????

 

[anon789561]

so the brother was the one that killed his own sister with a spanner. got to be seriously deranged.

how could anyone do that.

throw that scum in a shitty cell alone and let him rot with no food, executions too much of an easy way out.

filth.

such a sad and tragic story

[Argus Tuft]

That

 

is a hell of a grave

 

RIP

[zzaa09]

1 hour ago, theguyfromanotherforum said:

 

 

33 minutes ago, LomSak27 said:

  Its all about flaunting wealth eh.... conducting a seance are we?!    ????

 

Yes, but if one hasn't noticed general assumptions are accepted commonplace within this eclectic venue.

Edited September 25, 2018 by zzaa09

[MickTurator]

1 hour ago, moe666 said:

More than likely borrowing money and finally told no. The Brit had the right to spend his money as he saw fit but why flaunt your wealth in a poor country next to poor relatives.

He didn't flaunt his money.  He drove a pickup and a Ford Fiesta.

He lived very quietly.

[Enoon]

6 minutes ago, MickTurator said:

He didn't flaunt his money.  He drove a pickup and a Ford Fiesta.

He lived very quietly.

 

The question of how (generally poor) Thai people perceive foreigners wealth (what constitutes "flaunting") and how foreigners (living among those Thai people) perceive their own wealth (and what constitutes flaunting) is well worth a discussion away from the emotive arena that has been set up on this particular thread.

 

I was told by a Thai person, 8 years ago, that it takes surprisingly little (by forum members oft expressed economic expectations/standards) to be perceived as arrogant and overmighty.

 

 

 

[Rhys]

Felontives....

[KneeDeep]

Why oh why do these people crawl out of the woodwork after a tragedy such as this?

That thing that killed his own sister! So stupid statements about flaunting wealth by having house and land, pale into insignificance. 

Prison is too good for it. There seems to be suggestion that it killed another member of it's own family. 

Just appalling. 

Please...contain yourselves at least this one time. At least reserve your negative comment for the pond scum and not the victims.

[gerritkaew]

So sad,

you want to spent your years with your loved ones and get killed by your brother in law??

whats becoming off thailand, its not like 10 or 20 years ago when thing like this not happening...

R.I.P People.

[samsensam]

6 minutes ago, Enoon said:

 

The question of how (generally poor) Thai people perceive foreigners wealth (what constitutes "flaunting") and how foreigners (living among those Thai people) perceive their own wealth (and what constitutes flaunting) is well worth a discussion away from the emotive arena that has been set up on this particular thread.

 

I was told by a Thai person, 8 years ago, that it takes surprisingly little (by forum members oft expressed economic expectations/standards) to be perceived as arrogant and overmighty.

 

 

 

 

indeed; but it's all relative, to an average village dwelling thai someone, thai or foreign, with two cars and a decent house with a swimming pool would be seen as a wealthy person, but to your average westerner probability not so.

 

this is, of course, one of the main reasons why so many thai women (and men) from a poorer less educated background are attracted to foreigners. and not because they have arrived in thailand and suddenly become hansum.

[PhilAtUbon]

I think the RTP had to pull their collective finger out with this one as it is all over the British press. Sky, BBC, ITV, you name it, it's getting an awful lot of coverage.

 

 

[zzaa09]

1 hour ago, Enoon said:

 

The question of how (generally poor) Thai people perceive foreigners wealth (what constitutes "flaunting") and how foreigners (living among those Thai people) perceive their own wealth (and what constitutes flaunting) is well worth a discussion away from the emotive arena that has been set up on this particular thread.

 

I was told by a Thai person, 8 years ago, that it takes surprisingly little (by forum members oft expressed economic expectations/standards) to be perceived as arrogant and overmighty.

 

 

 

There are exceptions to this particular and forced upon myth, especially among the class of Farang that Thais refer to as Farang Kee Nok . 

Any perceived notions will certainly contradict such stereotypes.

[tropo]

2 hours ago, samsensam said:

 

indeed; but it's all relative, to an average village dwelling thai someone, thai or foreign, with two cars and a decent house with a swimming pool would be seen as a wealthy person, but to your average westerner probability not so.

 

this is, of course, one of the main reasons why so many thai women (and men) from a poorer less educated background are attracted to foreigners. and not because they have arrived in thailand and suddenly become hansum.

It could be a good reason to live in communities with lots of other foreigners who are wealthier, and in areas where it doesn't stand out.

 

I think the guys that live in poor rural communities, showing some semblance of wealth, are putting targets on their backs. If they do want to live in the boondocks, go where lots of wealthy Thai people live too.

[webfact]

Thai police discover bodies of British man, Thai wife

 

Thai Police and workers recover the bodies of a British citizen Alan Hogg, a 64-year-old retired businessman and his Thai wife Nod Suddaen, 61, buried near a creek on their property in the country's north province of Phrae, Thailand September 25, 2018. Dailynews/Handout via REUTERS

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Police in Thailand discovered on Tuesday the bodies of a British man and his Thai wife buried near a creek on their property in the country's north, days after the couple were reported missing.

 

Alan Hogg, a 64-year-old retired businessman, and his wife Nod Suddaen, 61, were reported missing from their home in the province of Phrae last week.

 

Police have arrested three Thai men in connection with the deaths.

 

"The three men conspired in the murder of the couple and our investigation is ongoing to determine exactly who did what," deputy police spokesman Colonel Kissana Phatanacharoen told Reuters.

 

A spokesman for the British embassy in Bangkok said they are in contact with Thai authorities and "providing support to the family of a British couple who have died in Thailand".

 

(Reporting by Panarat Thepgumpanat and Panu Wongcha-um; Writing by Amy Sawitta Lefevre; Editing by Darren Schuettler)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-09-26

 

Thai Police and workers recover the bodies of a British citizen Alan Hogg, a 64-year-old retired businessman and his Thai wife Nod Suddaen, 61, buried near a creek on their property in the country's north province of Phrae, Thailand September 25, 2018. Dailynews/Handout via REUTERS

 

[YetAnother]

9 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

“He resented being scolded by the couple,” Provincial Police Region 5 chief Poonsap Prasertsak said on Tuesday. 

more paper-thin thai male ego

[Chomper Higgot]

Imagine being a cop having to deal with this kind of stuff.

 

Cops in Thailand get a bad press, much of it deserved, but they also deal with stuff none of us would want to see.

 

They got a good result here.

 

RIP Alan and Nott.

Edited September 26, 2018 by Chomper Higgot

[worgeordie]

I want what you have,but I don't want to work for it,

Greed ,jealousy,that's what it boiled down too,could

not stand getting scolded ,pathetic excuse.

regards worgeordie

[robblok]

5 hours ago, tropo said:

It could be a good reason to live in communities with lots of other foreigners who are wealthier, and in areas where it doesn't stand out.

 

I think the guys that live in poor rural communities, showing some semblance of wealth, are putting targets on their backs. If they do want to live in the boondocks, go where lots of wealthy Thai people live too.

I actually disagree and agree with you *LOL*. 

 

I for one find the Thais in Pattaya where there are many foreigners a lot less friendly then in my area where there are a lot less foreigners. I would say foreigner concentrations build resentment for sure. You see it in other countries too in Spain there are area's where they don't want any English people anymore as they change the local value's too much. So it can work both ways. I can see your scenario happen too.

 

I live here among Thais (same style house so no obvious wealth though the house is better maintained then others and never have a problem. Besides one crazy neighbor... but the others are nice. Its not a matter of him being anti foreigner.. its just that he is an ass and other neighbors agree. I can see if you flaunt wealth (no victim blaming here as I am not talking about this case here) in a real poor area it could of course build resentment. 

[soalbundy]

10 hours ago, theguyfromanotherforum said:

Confession! 

 

Punishment will probably be halved to 250b and half a wai

No, the story has gone international, anyway what decent person would want to reduce the sentence for these scumbags.

[madusa]

10 hours ago, moe666 said:

More than likely borrowing money and finally told no. The Brit had the right to spend his money as he saw fit but why flaunt your wealth in a poor country next to poor relatives.

Yeah, I do feel that was what happened, you most probably right. If you want to lend money to them you might as well give it to them. How are they going to  pay you back the money they borrowed when they don't even have enough to live on?

People not willing to work hard for a living is a pain in the behind not only in Thailand, just about everywhere.

[Destiny1990]

How high is the brother his bail set this time?

[mercman24]

i have a friend from the UK, had a farm and a son in Chang Rai, maybe 5 years ago, he was met by his wifes 2 brothers, who said if he did not walk away he would be buried on the farm, no questions asked. needless to say he walked away back to the UK

[kwak250]

I really dont think this has anything to do with flaunting wealth.

Its more to do with a 63 year old boy .

Such sad news R.i.p

[oldlakey]

9 hours ago, Enoon said:

 

The question of how (generally poor) Thai people perceive foreigners wealth (what constitutes "flaunting") and how foreigners (living among those Thai people) perceive their own wealth (and what constitutes flaunting) is well worth a discussion away from the emotive arena that has been set up on this particular thread.

 

I was told by a Thai person, 8 years ago, that it takes surprisingly little (by forum members oft expressed economic expectations/standards) to be perceived as arrogant and overmighty.

 

 

 

If anybody should be used to flaunting of wealth Thais should be, after all it even includes getting away with murder in Thailand