Murderer arrested in Thailand after 16 years on the run

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Photo via Nation TV

 

by leah

 

A Thai man who brutally murdered his wife 16 years ago was arrested at a temple in Roi Et province in northeast Thailand yesterday. He confessed to beating his wife to death with a helmet in 2007.

 

Police arrested 63 year old Adirek at a temple in Nong Phok district under an arrest warrant from Phitsanulok Provincial Court dated August 19, 2007, which accused him of murder.

 

In 2007, Adirek and his wife drove a motorbike out of their house in Saraburi province in central Thailand and headed towards Adirek’s wife’s mother’s house in Phrae province.

 

Along the way, in Phitsanulok province, Adirek attacked his wife with a helmet until she was dead. He dumped her corpse on the roadside and fled, reports BangkokBizNews. The accused fled the scene.

 

Full story: https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/crime/murderer-arrested-in-thailand-after-16-years-on-the-run

 

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[KhunBENQ]

What does "hide in a temple" mean here?

Did he play the monk?

 

[soi3eddie]

16 years to catch a Thai murderer but 1 day to catch a foreign overstayer. Priorities?

 

[bristolgeoff]

He must have gone quiet for a long time,just wonder who told the police where he was