Bad drug memories
A young monk in Ayutthaya knifed to death an elderly abbot in a frenzied attack which police believe was brought on by drug-fuelled psychiatric problems.
Bang Sai police nabbed Phra Ano Mukpradap, 26, for stabbing to death the abbot, Phra Khru Khantithammanuwat, or Ekanart Ketchot, 75, in his living quarters at Bang Sai Nai temple.
The young knifeman did not wait around to be defrocked but changed into civilian gear of shorts and a military-pattern T-shirt while waiting for police.
Police video shows him yelling and crying as he was led away. He had tossed the weapon, a long knife, into a lake in front of the monks’ quarters, which police retrieved.
While the suspect was talking little sense, one temple worker heard him say that a “higher authority” had urged him to kill the abbot.
Family members say the suspect had been in the monkhood just two or…
