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Oct 14, 2009
Thai beheads, cuts up boy



Thai police officer escorts Siriphong Kanchannaniwit (left) for crime reenactment in Bangkok on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009. -- PHOTO: AP



BANGKOK - A THAI man confessed to the gruesome murder of a 5-year-old boy, saying he shot the child and then decapitated and dismembered his body after a lover's quarrel with his mother whom he also murdered, police said Wednesday. The child's body parts were discovered on Monday in four plastic bags at an abandoned housing development, stunning Thailand and becoming a national media sensation. The suspect, a 40-year-old Bangkok resident, fed the media frenzy by turning himself in Tuesday evening at the headquarters of a Thai television station where he was arrested on charges including premeditated murder. Police then allowed him to hold a televised news conference.

The suspect, Siriphong Kanchannaniwit, said he committed the two murders over the weekend while he was driving the woman and her two children in a borrowed taxi, said Bangkok Deputy Police Commissioner Maj. Gen. Amnuay Nimmano. Siriphong told police his girlfriend, the child's 38-year-old mother, had been pressuring him to kill one of her ex-husbands, said Gen. Amnuay. Siriphong said he refused and the woman insulted him, sending him into a rage. 'She kept insulting me, saying I had no guts,' Siriphong said calmly during the Tuesday news conference. Siriphong told police he pulled out a gun and started firing shots, which killed the boy and the mother, identified as Sunan Srisuwan, whose body was dumped at a side street. -- AP