Uttaradit: Waitress found murdered in boarding house

By the time Kamolrat was found, her body had started decomposing and a doctor determined that she had died about three days ago.

The boarding-house owner, 60 year old Yothin Chanrungruang, told police that after other tenants were troubled by the smell coming from the room, he had checked and found the body in the morning.

He said Komolrat worked as a waitress and had been renting the room for the past two months, after telling him she was on the run from her abusive husband.

On Saturday, however, her husband traced her to the boarding house and demanded that she return home with him, which she refused to do. According to witnesses, the two then quarrelled, after which she registered a complaint at Mueang police station that her husband had threatened to kill her, Yothin added.

STORY: The Nation