Death in the trees, rapist leaves number, bloody foot probe

Don’t look up now

Roi Et provincial police are heeding a mother’s pleas to take another look at the mysterious death of her son, after a mushroom picker found his remains hanging 15m up in a tree.

Rasamee Donnuea, 59, accompanied by her daughter, Piyaporn Ekanuch, 34, visited the region’s police last week after turning to a local webpage to air their plight.

Ms Rasamee said local police were too quick to dismiss the case as suicide when for her, many questions remain unanswered about the plight of her son, Natthaphol “Beer” Wongsuwan, 26.

A mushroom picker found his remains on Aug 4 when fossicking about a forest in Pathum Rat district. He found a skull on the ground which bore signs of having been hit in the left cheek with a blunt object.

When the mushroom picker looked up he saw a pair of jeans, belt, boxer shorts and a yellow shirt,…