Phuket home owner stabbed to death in her garden

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Phuket home owner stabbed to death in her garden
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A forensics officer photographs the knife where it was found in Mrs Nonglack’s garden

PHUKET: -- A 42-year-old woman died after this afternoon being stabbed in the walled garden of her house in Baan Manik.

Neighbours rushed the victom, Nonglak Thavorn, to Thalang Hospital but she died not long after.

Police searched the garden of and found a knife in the grass in the garden with blood on it. It was sent for forensic examination.

Mrs Nonglak’s neighbour, Amnuay Limpanon, told police that he was in his garden when he heard her calling out for help.

He climbed over the wall to find her lying on the ground with a knife sticking out of her head, just behind her right ear. He pulled out the knife and shouted for help. Another neighbor carried her to his pick-up truck and drove her to hospital.

Mr Amnuay said that Mrs Nonglak lived in another house not far away from the one where she was stabbed; she would come to the house from time to time to look after it.

From what they found in the garden police believe that, before she was stabbed, Mrs Nonglak was using the knife to peel a santol fruit (in Thai, katorn).

Police are working on the theory that her killer may have been hiding in the garden waiting for her. When she came out of the house, this person tried to steal her gold necklace and gold bracelet but she resisted, so the criminal used the knife to stab her before fleeing.

Source: http://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-home-owner-stabbed-to-death-in-her-garden-46565.php

-- Phuket News 2014-05-30

[rhythmworx]

He pulled the knife out of her head, you know like you would in a case like that.

Police are working on a theory etc,,,,

[FireMedic]

I don't know who stabbed her, but whoever pulled the knife out, most likely killed her.

[ggt]

He pulled the knife out of her head...without thinking...after having plunged the knife into her skull...then threw the knife in the bushes and called out for help...before heading off to the local gold shop...

[ChoakMyDee]

Damn, don't pull the knife out. It seems many people in Thailand have not even basic first aid.

[NamKangMan]

If the house was vacant, and the victim would "come to the house from time to time." - that's a lot of waiting in the garden, if "from time to time" varied.

If someone did lay in wait, in the garden, for the purpose of a robbery, wouldn't they bring their own knife, to threaten the victim? In any case, that's a lot of work just to steal a necklace and bracelet.

I'm thinking the victim and the neighbour engaged in an argument which escalated.

A convenient story by the neighbour that puts his prints on the knife.

How does someone "shout for help" with a knife sticking out of their head?

How much of the "santol fruit" was peeled before she was stabbed? Wouldn't a robber attack as soon as she enters the garden? Why would they wait for her to peel a fruit?

So many more theories that should be looked at, other than robbery.

[joshstiles]

MAYBE SHE FELL AND IMPALED HERSELF WITH THE KNIFE?

[MMarlow]

If the house was vacant, and the victim would "come to the house from time to time." - that's a lot of waiting in the garden, if "from time to time" varied.

If someone did lay in wait, in the garden, for the purpose of a robbery, wouldn't they bring their own knife, to threaten the victim? In any case, that's a lot of work just to steal a necklace and bracelet.

I'm thinking the victim and the neighbour engaged in an argument which escalated.

A convenient story by the neighbour that puts his prints on the knife.

How does someone "shout for help" with a knife sticking out of their head?

How much of the "santol fruit" was peeled before she was stabbed? Wouldn't a robber attack as soon as she enters the garden? Why would they wait for her to peel a fruit?

So many more theories that should be looked at, other than robbery.

"How does someone "shout for help" with a knife sticking out of their head?"

By shouting before she was stabbed?

[NamKangMan]

If the house was vacant, and the victim would "come to the house from time to time." - that's a lot of waiting in the garden, if "from time to time" varied.

If someone did lay in wait, in the garden, for the purpose of a robbery, wouldn't they bring their own knife, to threaten the victim? In any case, that's a lot of work just to steal a necklace and bracelet.

I'm thinking the victim and the neighbour engaged in an argument which escalated.

A convenient story by the neighbour that puts his prints on the knife.

How does someone "shout for help" with a knife sticking out of their head?

How much of the "santol fruit" was peeled before she was stabbed? Wouldn't a robber attack as soon as she enters the garden? Why would they wait for her to peel a fruit?

So many more theories that should be looked at, other than robbery.

"How does someone "shout for help" with a knife sticking out of their head?"

By shouting before she was stabbed?

So, the victim had time to "shout for help" before being attacked.

The offender had time to stab her in the head and to leave the garden, unseen.

How long does it take to jump a garden fence, after hearing the initial "shout for help" yet the offender was not seen?

Edited May 30, 2014 by NamKangMan

[Guest]

So, the victim had time to "shout for help" before being attacked.

The offender had time to stab her in the head and to leave the garden, unseen.

How long does it take to jump a garden fence, after hearing the initial "shout for help" yet the offender was not seen?

42 seconds.

[NamKangMan]

So, the victim had time to "shout for help" before being attacked.

The offender had time to stab her in the head and to leave the garden, unseen.

How long does it take to jump a garden fence, after hearing the initial "shout for help" yet the offender was not seen?

42 seconds.

It takes 52 seconds to leave the victim's garden, therefore, the neighbour should have sighted the offender over a 10 second period.

Surely, he saw him long enough to tell the police he was Burmese.

[Loles]

- Doctor Watson, what do you think about Mr. neighbor who pulled out the knife from victim's skull?

- I guess he was who pulled onto also Holmes.

[Dap]

So, the victim had time to "shout for help" before being attacked.

The offender had time to stab her in the head and to leave the garden, unseen.

How long does it take to jump a garden fence, after hearing the initial "shout for help" yet the offender was not seen?

42 seconds.