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Yaba - meth mixed with caffeine, a drug of choice in Thailand available for a few dozen Thai baht - is at the center of another horrific murder of a parent.

 

Siam Rath reported that a police patrol at Kapong Chaipat hospital in Phangnga in the south of Thailand investigated after a man who later died had been stabbed. He was named as Yuthana. He had been brought into hospital by a younger brother. 

 

They went to a house and found bloodstains on the left leg of his son who was named only as "A" in the story.

 

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He was mostly incoherent but managed to suggest that if he hadn't got his father first he would have been killed himself.

 

Relatives reported that the son had attacked the father before they took the victim to hospital with a chest wound. 

 

A 23 cm stainless steel knife was taken into evidence.

 

Siam Rath publish a picture of the suspect being interviewed on the floor at Kapong police station. 

 

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3 hours ago, webfact said:

He was mostly incoherent but managed to suggest that if he hadn't got his father first he would have been killed himself.

Blood ties have a different meaning in Thailand

Ya-Ba the affordable social destroyer.

5 hours ago, webfact said:

He was mostly incoherent but managed to suggest that if he hadn't got his father first he would have been killed himself.

seems a good advert for taking yaba in a a locked room on your own to me