Headman steals wife, shooter on run, uncle pays for sin

Local leader lets down the team

A village headman in Buri Ram is facing calls to resign after he took off with another man’s wife.

“Samreng”, 57, a village headman in Sawaijeek, Muang district, says he wants to start life again with a village health volunteer, “Hong”, 55, whom he claims he has loved for 30 years.

The couple abandoned their families and left town for five days recently. They came back to declare they loved each other and had started building a house in the middle of the village.

The news upset locals who said it was a poor way to behave for a local leader. Mr Samreng is himself married and has three children. His critics have now started a petition calling on the district office to sack him.

Hong, who has declined…