Bangkok police arrested a 19-year-old temple boy for killing a 58-year-old man and torching his body after their relationship turned sour in less than a month.

Metropolitan police commissioner Sanit Mahathaworn told a news conference at the Prawet police station on Monday that the teenager lived at Wat Kaew Pitak Chaoren Dham in Suan Luang district.

The boy got to know Sompong "Jay Nui" Boonyuen when they exercised at the Suan Luang Rama IX public park in the same district three weeks ago.

The teen moved in to the older man's apartment on Vibhavadhi Rangsit 16 Road in Chatuchak district after the latter bought him an iPhone 6 and promised to give him 30,000 baht a month.

The suspect reportedly confessed to killing Jay Nui because the latter was bossy and forced him to walk beside him at department stores, instead of behind him as he preferred. He also wanted the younger man to eat at the same time.

The last straw came when Jay Nui told him to go to a party with him against his will. They had a fight and the young man stomped the partner's neck. He found out later that his partner had stopped breathing.

The young man then packed his bag, put the body in a suitcase and returned to his temple to burn it.

He reportedly bought two bottles of petrol from a local petrol station and set the body on fire with four used tyres at the deserted garbage-burning yard of the temple at about 2am Sunday.

After burning the body, the young man returned to his monk's residence where he used to live, Pol Lt Gen Sanit said.

A friend of Jay Nui came to the temple later in the same morning but the teenager denied knowing Jay Nui's whereabouts. On Sunday night, the friend reported to police who then found the burnt body.

Phra Prakot, the monk at Wat Kaew Pitak Chaoren Dham, said the young man was his distant grandson and served him at the monk's residence. The young man finished only grade three and was illiterate, the monk said.

Source:
courtesy of BANGKOK POST

by Bangkok Post

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