Crime Man Murders Disabled Adoptive Grandmother with Stone, Attempts to Stage Accident Scene

[Georgealbert]

 

Picture courtesy of Khaosod.

 

A 49-year-old man has confessed to the brutal murder of his disabled adoptive grandmother in Khon Kaen, after initially attempting to conceal the crime by claiming she had fallen in the bathroom.

 

Police from Phra Yuen Police Station, led by Pol. Col. Chalit Morakotsriwan and Pol. Lt. Col. Saksit Saisombat, brought the suspect, Mr. Singha, to the scene in Moo 1, Kham Pom subdistrict, to re-enact the crime.

 

Authorities were alerted late on the night of 1 June by a local resident who reported the discovery of a body in a two-storey wooden house. Upon arrival, officers found the lifeless body of Ms. Boonma, aged 87, lying on a bamboo platform inside the house. She had sustained deep wounds to the forehead and left cheek, with bruising around one eye, suggesting blunt force trauma inconsistent with a fall.

 

Initially, Mr. Singha told officers that he had returned home in the evening to find his grandmother lying face down in the bathroom, apparently from a fall. He claimed he had cleaned her body and laid her on the platform before calling neighbours for help.

 

However, forensic examination quickly disproved his account and Mr. Singha eventually confessed during further questioning the following morning.

 

He admitted that his growing frustration with caring for his disabled grandmother, who was unable to walk and had to crawl around the house, led to frequent arguments and minor physical abuse over the years. Mr. Singha had lived with Ms. Boonma for many years. She had adopted him as a child, transferred her assets to him and supported him financially. Despite this, he harboured resentment, especially after his wife left him five years earlier, taking their child.

 

On the night of the incident, Ms. Boonma had crawled to a neighbour’s house, pleading for help and claiming her grandson had assaulted her. Mr. Singha reportedly followed her, carried her home and deliberately avoided the household CCTV cameras. Once inside, he used a stone to strike her on the head and face two or three times until she died.

 

He then washed her body, laid her on the platform, covered her with a blanket and told neighbours she had died after slipping in the bathroom.

 

Following his confession, police charged Mr. Singha with murder and tampering with a corpse to conceal the cause of death. He has been handed over to investigators for prosecution.

 

 

  Adapted by Asean Now from Khaosod 2025-06-03.