Mistress under fire, ungrateful beggar, jail request

Dumped like a temple dog

The wife of a man dumped at a temple by his mistress is getting her own back, seeking police help against the minor wife for ill-treatment of her ailing husband.

Municipal staff were called to Chang Yai temple in Thung Fon district, Udon Thani last week after reports emerged on social media that a crippled man, later identified as Panuwat, or Lung Than, 45, had been dumped there by a woman on a motorbike.

She had propped him on the back of her motorcycle and tied his body around her own waist for the 50km journey from Wang Thong in Ban Dung district, where they lived.

However, evidently tiring of the weighty burden, she left him at the temple for…