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‘Ice Metal Casket’ gets life for murder

‘Ice Metal Casket’ gets life for murder

Court rejects notorious killer’s claim that he acted out of anger

Rescue workers retrieve human bones from a pond in the backyard of the house of Apichai Ongwisit (inset) in Bang Khae district of Bangkok on Jan 17, 2020. (Photo: Pornprom Satrabhaya)

Apichai Ongwisit, aka “Ice Metal Casket”, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a young woman whose body was found stuffed inside a metal casket at his Bangkok house.

The Thonburi Criminal Court also ordered Apichai, 41, to pay 2.9 million baht to the mother and a child of his victim, Warinthorn Chaiyachet, 22.

The court handed down its judgement on Friday morning via video conference to the Thon Buri Remand Prison where Apichai is…

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