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Murderer arrested in Thailand after 16 years on the run

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A Thai man who brutally murdered his wife 16 years ago was arrested at a temple in Roi Et province in northeast Thailand yesterday. He confessed to beating his wife to death with a helmet in 2007.

Police arrested 63 year old Adirek at a temple in Nong Phok district under an arrest warrant from Phitsanulok Provincial Court dated August 19, 2007, which accused him of murder.

In 2007, Adirek and his wife drove a motorbike out of their house in Saraburi province in central Thailand and headed towards Adirek’s wife’s mother’s house in Phrae province.

Along the way, in Phitsanulok province, Adirek attacked his wife with a helmet until she was dead. He dumped her corpse on the roadside and fled, reports BangkokBizNews. The accused fled the scene.

Police from Nakhon Thai Police Station found Adirek’s wife’s body and gathered evidence which they presented to…

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