A 23-Year-old Man Inflicted Many Wounds With A Knife On His Girlfriend, From Which She Later Died

At 4:00 p.m. today (August 18, 2024), the 191 radio center of Bo Phut Police Station received a report of a stabbing incident at a product sales area in a large shopping mall, Village 6, Bo Phut Subdistrict, Koh Samui District, Surat Thani Province. Pol. Lt. Col. Sirachach Kamuni, Deputy Chief of Investigation, Bo Phut Police Station, was notified and traveled to the scene of the incident along with Pol. Col. Den Duang Thongsrisuk, Superintendent, Pol. Lt. Col. Charoen Ketkaew, Deputy Chief of Investigation, Pol. Lt. Col. Phanumas Chukeo, Chief of Investigation, Pol. Lt. Col. Boonnum Srinarat, Deputy Chief of Crime Suppression, along with detectives and patrol police.


The incident occurred at a product sales area. Blood was found scattered all over the floor. The injured person was in critical condition. The emergency medical team of Thai International Hospital Samui has taken him in. The perpetrator is a Thai man. The police arrested him after the incident along with a knife. He was identified as Mr. Chokchai or Ek Intharak, 23 years old, from Na San District, Surat Thani Province. It was found that his right hand had a severe wound from a sharp object. The police therefore took him to the nurses at Thai Inter Hospital to treat the wound. It was found that there was a deep wound on his right hand to the tendons.


In the emergency room behind the suspect where the wound was being treated, the doctors performed CPR to save Rinrada Sukjit, 23 years old, from Koh Samui District, Surat Thani Province. It was found that she had been stabbed with a sharp object in the chest, torso, and arms 6 times and was hit in the head with a hard object once, totaling 7 wounds. She was in serious condition. The doctors from Thai Inter Hospital sent her to Koh Samui Hospital. In front of the emergency room of Thai Inter Hospital, many relatives of Mr. Rinrada came to watch and were angry at Mr. Chokchai or Ek, her boyfriend, for hurting her.


Initially, from the interrogation, Mr. Chokchai or Ek, her boyfriend, confessed that I am an electrician for a company. I have been dating Mr. Rinrada for 4 months and we love each other very much. We just had a problem 4-5 days ago, but we still talk on the phone. However, the injured person has insulted me in many ways and said many things to me until I can't stand it anymore. The suspect brought the Line chat messages for the police to see. The conversation between the suspect and the injured person, which contained violent messages that the injured person said on the chat messages, which cannot be described.


Before the incident, I rode my motorcycle to the department store where my girlfriend worked selling things at the sales area. I brought a motorcycle shock absorber with me and a long knife with a length of more than 7 inches. When I got there, I hit Mr. Rinrada on the head with the motorcycle shock absorber. Then I used the sharp knife to stab my girlfriend several times until the knife broke and cut me. My girlfriend was lying in a pool of blood, motionless. I was then taken into custody by the officers. And he confessed and took full responsibility for the incident that he had done, the accused said.


Most recently, Mr. Rinrada, the injured person, “suffered from the wounds and died at Koh Samui Hospital. Initially, the police officers took Mr. Chokchai into custody and charged him with intentional murder and carrying a knife in public without just cause.”