Old man won’t take ‘no’
A Bangkok taxi driver killed his lover with a hammer and tried to pass off her body as a Buddha statue as he prevailed on two men to help him remove the body from his rental room.
Cheuy Datthuyawat
Pathumwan police arrested Cheuy Datthuyawat, 70, for the premeditated killing of his lover, Ketsuda Sriworakul, 36, on April 5.
Mr Cheuy struck her repeatedly with a hammer after they met at his room in Charat Muang Road for sex. The taxi driver, who had been seeing the victim for three or four months, had just given her 1,000 baht and they started to argue, he told police after his arrest.
After hitting her with the hammer, he washed down the blood and wrapped her naked body with a bedsheet. However, he had to reckon with the problem of moving the body from the second floor. The building where he lives is a former commercial…
