Spite takes boy’s life, bitter old love, parting anxiety

Loving dad turns bad

Locals are aghast after a young Prachuap Khiri Khan father who by everyone’s accounts deeply loved his son nonetheless took the six-year-old’s life to spite his wife, who had left him a month earlier and refused to return.

Hua Hin police nabbed Natthapol “Joe” Sangprasert, 24, for killing his son, Ratchanon “Nong Japan” Sornchalerm, by asphyxiation as the little boy sat in his lap.

Mr Natthapol, who after killing the boy concealed his body in a remote grasslands area about 300m from his home, and claimed to police that the boy had disappeared from his pickup as he ducked into a roadside eatery to buy a meal, kept up this pretense for the next couple of days before being caught out.

He organised a search for the boy, laid a bogus police complaint, conjured up a sighting of a suspicious looking vehicle close to where…