S'porean murders wife's lover in Thailand
Lianhe Wanbao
Mr Ittiphan Kuwakorn (right), a drift-racing driver, was stabbed with a knife in nine places, including his chest and back, at an apartment in Bangkok last Thursday. -- PHOTO: INTERNET
A Singaporean man is suspected to have murdered his wife's lover in Thailand.
Local businessman Xu Wei Hua, 38, was reportedly filmed by a closed circuit camera (CCTV) stabbing a man to death at his wife's apartment in Bangkok.
Xu had gone to Bangkok to look for his Thai wife but instead, caught her naked in bed with another man. Xu was at his wife's sixth floor apartment in the north part of Bangkok at about 1pm on 24 November.
A CCTV outside the house caught him loitering in the corridor for about half an hour. It is believed that Xu was listening for noises inside the house.
After a while, he was seen kicking down the door to enter the apartment. There, he had purportedly found his Thai wife, 25, fully nude in bed with another man, 26.
The man turned out to be Xu's Thai chauffeur, a well-built man covered in tattoos. Both men began fighting from inside the apartment to outside in the corridors.
Xu was then seen going back into the house and returning with a knife. With it, he stabbed the fully nude Thai man a total of nine times, including in his heart, chest, back and right arm.
The badly injured Thai man left a long trail of blood to the lift as he tried to escape from Xu. Somehow, the man turned and staggered back into the apartment's bedroom before he finally collapsed and died.
After the gruesome deed, Xu escaped in his black BMW car but left his passport in the apartment. He is currently on the run in Thailand and is being pursued by the Thai police.
Xu, by all appearances a successful businessman, has four companies in Singapore dealing in the plastics business. He was known to have doted on his Thai wife, giving her an allowance of about S$3,000 every month, as well as her own BMW car.
His family in Singapore appears to be unaware that Xu is wanted by the Thai police, but told reporters that they will attempt to contact him.
The deceased Thai man, while working as Xu's chauffeur, is also a Drift Racing Driver. Xu, in comparison, appears to be a softspoken man.
Source: Lianhe Wanbao, 27 November 2011.
