Two Indian men arrested for murder of restaurateur
TWO INDIAN MEN were arrested on suspicion of stabbing to death a compatriot who ran an Indian restaurant in Sukhothai.
Devender Sink, 225, and Rewis Jaeni, 23 denied committing the crime.
The body of Hem Singh, 36, was found with eight knife wounds in the Yom River in Phitsanulok’s Prom Phiram district. It was tied to a stone bench.
Police inspected Singh’s restaurant Ali Baba Indian Foods in Muang district and came across the same type of stone bench.
They surmised that Singh was killed in his bedroom and kitchen.
DNA samples were collected from both suspects.
Eyewitnesses said the three men were eating and drinking inside the restaurant last Tuesday before Singh disappeared without a trace.
Police were investigating two possible motives – that Sink had fallen in love with Singh’s wife, and that Sink was angry and had argued with Singh over money owed to him for various jobs.
Police suspect that Jaeni may not have played a key role because he had just arrived on the day of the crime.
Singh’s wife Somjai Promnaka, 36, said she had no idea why her husband was murdered.
She positively identified the remains as her husband from his tattoo and clothes.
She described him as a kind and friendly man.
She said she lived with her parents at another house and he would drop by once every four days.
