Teenagers axed man to death: police

Made off with victim’s cash to play online games

NAKORN PATHOM: -- Police yesterday arrested two teenage boys for allegedly killing an old man with an axe and robbing him of Bt1,000 cash to pay for online computer games.

Following a tip-off, police arrested the boys, aged 15 and 13, while they were gambling in a house in Muang district, said Lt-Colonel Chaiyos Mukdakarn of the Muang Nakhon Pathom Police Station.

Police also took a 12-year-old to be summoned at the police station, and were still searching for a 16-year-old, he said. The boys’ names were withheld.

Chaiyos said the two boys, aged 13 and 15, confessed to police that they, together with the 16-year-old, had killed a man identified only as Som, 60, and robbed him of Bt1,000 cash. The boys had regularly sold stolen goods to the man.

The boys told police that last Friday at about 11pm, Som asked them to steal a pig at a nearby farm in exchange for Bt200. Later, the 16-year-old allegedly hatched a plot to kill Som as he slept in order to steal his money. The others allegedly had agreed.

As the fatal axe blows were delivered to the head of the sleeping Som, the axe also cut the ear of the 12-year-old, who is the brother of the eldest boy and who was sleeping alongside the Som, police said.

The four boys then fled the scene and took the 12 year old to hospital and paid Bt400 for his treatment.

They later divided the money and spent it playing online computer games, Chaiyos said.

The 13 and 15 year olds have been charged with armed robbery and murder. The 12 year old is being held as a witness, and police are still searching for the fugitive 16-year-old boy, the officer said.

--The Nation 2005-06-09

This is very distrurbing to read. To kill someone you know for 1,000bt? I could understand if they were using drugs, but just to kill for temporary gain? At ages 13, 15 &16? Thai society has it's hands full if this is an example of the way the young people are thinking.

This is very distrurbing to read. To kill someone you know for 1,000bt? I could understand if they were using drugs, but just to kill for temporary gain? At ages 13, 15 &16? Thai society has it's hands full if this is an example of the way the young people are thinking.

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The whole episode probably just seemed like a video game to them! It's easy to make mistakes like that...the difference between fantasy and reality is really blurred for some people.

To hack someone to death with an axe while they slept..... for a US$8.23 cut ...

unfathomable....

mai kao jai....???

Edited June 9, 200521 yr by sriracha john

This is very distrurbing to read. To kill someone you know for 1,000bt? I could understand if they were using drugs, but just to kill for temporary gain? At ages 13, 15 &16? Thai society has it's hands full if this is an example of the way the young people are thinking.

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The whole episode probably just seemed like a video game to them! It's easy to make mistakes like that...the difference between fantasy and reality is really blurred for some people.

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very sad to hear but its true.

I seen a young thai girl taken off a bus (dead). Guy slashed her throat for a 1 baht gold chain.

Now i falang kee nok

Edited June 9, 200521 yr by Nam Kao