Drug-crazed husband brutally kills wife, leaves her in chicken coop

Uttaradit, A drug-addicted husband was arrested after he thought his wife was a Krasue ghost and assaulted her before slitting her throat with a knife and throwing the head in a chicken coop. Officers were notified of a murder of a couple at a house in Tambon Chaichumphon. They went to the scene and found a single-story concrete house. They found the body of Ms. Phatra, aged 50, dead in front of the house, without her head. Asked Mrs. Yanisa, the village headman, she said that she heard Mr. Narin, the perpetrator and the deceased's husband, sitting drinking alcohol with Ms. Phatra, his wife, and they started arguing loudly. So she went to warn him, but when she arrived, she found Mr. Narin using a knife to slit his wife's throat. Then he carried her head and ran away from the house. So she contacted the officers to help find the deceased's head and arrest the perpetrator. Until they found the head thrown in a chicken coop near the house. As for the perpetrator, the officers searched the nearby area but cou ld not find him. Then they found the perpetrator who had not run away but was hiding inside the house. His shirt was covered in blood. He was drunk and talking incoherently. He was holding the machete that was used in the crime. Asking neighbors, they said that the couple often drank alcohol and took drugs regularly. At the time of the incident, the couple were drinking alcohol and started arguing. The husband physically abused his wife. The neighbors heard the last thing the woman said was... she couldn't breathe and then went quiet. It is believed that the man probably strangled the woman until she stopped breathing before using a machete to cut her neck. When someone saw them, they took the head and threw it in the chicken coop. While Mr. Narin said that he was drinking alcohol together, he suddenly saw his wife as a Krasue ghost, so he went to attack her until she was still, then used a knife to slit her throat, thinking that he was killing a ghost, not killing his own wife, and that his wife did not di e. Then he dragged her body out of the house and took the head to throw to the chickens to eat, but someone found it first. Source: Thai News Agency