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An aunt of the murder victim launches herself at the confessed killer

Phuket Murder Victim's Aunts Attack Rapist at Police HQ

Thursday, July 12, 2012
PHUKET: Two aunts of a young woman killed in a savage murder and rape attacked the man who admitted the crimes during a wild media conference at Phuket City Police Headquarters this afternoon.

In the first attack, an aunt tried to beat the man, crying: ''How can you do this? She was just a girl. You have the heart of a dog.''

The attack was recorded on video. So was the second aunt's attack on the man a little later.

The two women were doing what many people on Phuket probably wished they could do in response to a brutal slaying that Kittikhun Wonghajak, 28, eventually admitted carrying out alone.

His victim was 17-year-old Sunisa Chaiyoi, who usually worked selling fruit with her family at Phuket Vocational College in Phuket City.

On Tuesday afternoon, she went home to the family's house in Chanakan Village, Chalong, early with a headache and she happened to be asleep in her bedroom when Khun Kittikhun, a regular house-breaker, decided the house was next on his list.

After his arrest, Khun Kittikhun at first said he had acted with two other men, and that he had committed another murder, slashing the throat of a ladyboy.

But under intense interrogation at Phuket City Police Headquarters, he eventually confessed to acting alone.

He chose the Chaiyoi family house on Tuesday and went from room to room, ransacking and stealing.

When he reached Khun Sunisa's room he found her asleep in bed and decided on an impulse to rape her.

However, when he could not have an erection, he used a candle to penetrate her vaginally and anally.

Police found the girl's body kneeling at the foot of her bed.

Doctors at Vachira Phuket Hospital have not clarified whether Sunisa died from blood loss or from suffocation as Khun Kittikhun pushed her head face-down into the bedding.

A footprint in the bedroom was later identified as matching Khun Kittikhun's shoe.

He told police he did not realise he had killed the girl until he saw the television news later on that evening.

Patrol police pulled over Khun Kittikhun today because he and his companion were riding a red Honda Scoopi - the style of motorcycle that neighbors identified as being ridden by someone checking out the neighborhood on Tuesday.

Khun Kittikhun denied any connection with the murder and rape.

However, when taken back to his room behind the Vichit council offices, police found an amulet and other items that Sunisa's father quickly identified as coming from the family's home.

After owning up to acting alone, Khun Kittikhun sat impassively through the attacks at this afternoon's media presentation.

His companion, Teang Sangsuwan, 31, will be charged over other break-ins that the pair committed.

The video can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T62qyT-krOU&feature=youtu.be

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People who steal Buddhist amulets will suffer greatly in this life and next! As for his other sins... well...

check it out at 2:24... whacked with a shoe! Good coverage Phuketwan!!

Posted by j on July 12, 2012 20:32

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Wonder how much his bail will be ....

Posted by geoff on July 12, 2012 20:37

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The news of this poor girls murder brought me to tears. A young girl who had done nothing wrong and yet was murdered in her own home. The family will live the rest of their lives heartbroken by whats happened. Rest in peace Sunisa.

Posted by sateeb on July 13, 2012 00:37

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The pain on the aunts' faces is so heartbreaking.

Posted by Greg on July 14, 2012 00:54


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