Man wanted for strangling ex-partner in Phuket caught on Bangkok-bound bus

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Man wanted for strangling ex-partner in Phuket caught on Bangkok-bound bus

By Tanyaluk Sakoot

 

The suspect, Eak Tomphet, 40, from Trang, was caught in Prachuap Khiri Khan – more than 500km from Phuket – on a bus heading to Bangkok. Photo: Prachuap Khiri Khan Highway Police

 

PHUKET:-- The man wanted for strangling his ex-partner in a rented room in Rassada, north of Phuket Town, has been caught more than 500km from Phuket on a bus heading to Bangkok.
 

Officers stopped the bus, which was heading from Hat Yai to the capital, at a routine Highway Police checkpoint in Prachuap Khiri Khan province’s Mueang District at 5:30pm yesterday (July 2).

 

“We had been informed by Phuket Police that a man was wanted for the murder of a housemaid in an apartment in Phuket,” Maj Narongrit Ngamchang of Prachuap Khiri Khan’s Highway Police told The Phuket News.

Full Story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/man-wanted-for-strangling-ex-partner-in-phuket-caught-on-bangkok-bound-bus-71987.php#9tZO0vUUQAmlePKM.97

 

-- © Copyright Phuket News 2019-07-03

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[ianezy0]

Talk about a fast getaway vehicle...

personally I would have flown from the airport.

[OneMoreFarang]

It's always amazing how fast and efficient the Thai police can work if they want to...

[steven100]

Well done RTP .... credit to them on this one  !!

[legend49]

13 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

It's always amazing how fast and efficient the Thai police can work if they want to...

Yes all 11 of them, LOL.