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The jealous strangler

A Nakhon Ratchasima man convinced himself his girlfriend was seeing someone else and spied on her for a week before deciding to take her life.

Nong Bun Mak police charged truck driver Prasert “Mod” Nguanklang, 33, for strangling to death his girlfriend of four years, Emon Inkanon, also 33, at an abandoned petrol station near village 4 in Nong Takai sub-district on July 10.

A goods trader who runs a casual car-parking service at the abandoned station said Emon left her motorcycle there every day at 6.30am before catching the bus to work, and picked it up again in the evening.

“Keow” (assumed name), said while Emon would typically get the bus back before the next leg of her journey home, on some nights she would be dropped off at the station in a private motor vehicle.

“For the past week her boyfriend…