Jealous Thai man slits wife’s throat with machete for ‘talking to another man on the phone’

A Thai man coldly murdered his wife with a machete in Krabi province in southern Thailand yesterday. He said he slit her throat out of rage because she was “topless and talking to another man on the phone.” Then he fled the scene.

Police tracked down and arrested 50 year old Prachuap Nuanchan at a shrimp farm in Pak Trae subdistrict, Ranot district, Songkhla province.

Prachuap confessed to killing his 58 year old wife Rattanakul, or “Khlad,” at their home in Phela subdistrict, Khlong Tom district, Krabi province.

Jealous Prachuap said he returned home from work yesterday to find his wife lying topless on the phone to another man. He saw red, grabbed a machete, and slashed her to death.

He told the police that there is evidence of the phone call on his wife’s phone – as if that would make his crime any less heinous.

The married couple lived together for more than 20…