04 October 2018 :

The First Court in Chumphon province on September 28, 2018 sentenced Ronnachai Panchart and his girlfriend, Naruemon Chuaysombat, to death after finding them guilty of involvement in killing the man’s fiancee. However, the Court reduced the punishment to life sentence as Ronnachai and Naruemon confessed and gave information useful to the trial. Ronnachai and Nonthiya Kraujatturat, a dental official of a hospital in Chumphon, were going to tie the knot on December 24, but on December 19, Nonthiya’s body with a single gunshot wound to the chest was found in a dormitory in the hospital’s compound. Police at first focused the investigation on the suspicion of a robbery gone wrong. However the probe was shifted to the groom after they found Nonthiya’s angry Facebook messages against Ronnachai, denouncing him for having a new girlfriend. Ronnachai confessed after a lengthy police investigation that he had changed his mind about the marriage and wanted to cancel the wedding due to a new girlfriend, Naruemon. The court sentenced Naruemon to the same punishment as Ronnachai as she had helped plan the murder, drove him to kill Nonthiya and purchased the gun used in the murder.