Two Japanese suspects in murder-mutilation case

Thai driver heard capturing and noticed physique after taking duo to warehouse in Bang Bua Thong

Two Japanese males are prime suspects within the homicide and dismemberment of one other Japanese man whose stays have been present in Nonthaburi province final week.

Decaying components of the physique have been present in black plastic baggage on Soi Jadsan Thee Din 2 off Ban Kluai-Sai Noi Road in tambon Pimolrat in Bang Bua Thong district final Friday and once more on Tuesday.

Police started their seek for the 2 males after a Thai suspect was arrested on Tuesday night time. He stated two Japanese males had just lately killed and dismembered the sufferer in Bang Bua Thong.

The 34-year-old Thai suspect was recognized solely as Games. He advised police that two Japanese males had employed him as a chauffeur, stated Pol Lt Gen Jirasant Kaewsaeng-ek, commissioner of the Provincial Police Region 1.

The commissioner quoted the suspect as saying that he introduced three Japanese males to a restaurant on the Thon Buri facet of Bangkok on March 27. Later that night time he drove them to a warehouse in Bang Bua Thong. The two suspects sat within the again seat of the white automobile and the third Japanese man within the entrance passenger seat, and so they argued alongside the best way, he stated.

When they reached their vacation spot, the Japanese males ordered their driver to get out of the automobile and so they drove it into the warehouse. The Thai man waited close by and heard a gunshot contained in the warehouse. Later he noticed the sufferer lifeless within the automobile.

At about 10am on March 28, the 2 Japanese suspects returned to the warehouse, dismembered the physique and put its components in plastic baggage. They rented a purple automobile and had the Thai man drive it to areas the place the plastic baggage have been dropped.

The sufferer’s cranium was discovered on Tuesday and it had a bullet gap, stated Pol Lt Gen Jirasant.

Police are nonetheless figuring out the suspects and the sufferer, however they consider all three have been a part of the identical gang and have been concerned in illicit enterprise in Thailand after having accomplished so in Japan.

Police consider the suspects are nonetheless hiding within the nation.

Police on Wednesday query the Thai suspect on the warehouse the place he stated a Japanese man was shot lifeless in Bang Bua Thong district of Nonthaburi. (Police photograph)