Reenactment prepared for Japanese man's murder case

BANGKOK, October 23 (TNA) - Thai police are about to have the couple charged with killing a 79-year-old Japanese man conduct a reenactment to back their confession. Soldiers of the 2nd Cavalry Division handed Pornchanok Chaiyapa and her husband Somchai Kaewbangyang to Police Lieutenant General Rueangsak Jarit-ek, acting deputy national police chief, at the Metropolitan Police Bureau Thursday. The suspects were detained under martial law following their arrest Sunday in Ang Thong province. The two were brought before the eyes of the media for the first time. At the press conference, the suspects confessed to dismembering a body of Japanese-language teacher Yoshinori Shimato, putting his body parts in bags and sinking them in a canal in Bang Bo district of Samut Prakan province. At the request of the police, rescue workers retrieved all the bags from the canal. Shimato had gone missing since September 21. Pornchanok insisted that she did not kill the Japanese man but conceded that she knew him for a long time. Police Lieutenant General Rueangsak Rueangsak questioned both suspects himself and had doctors examine their bodies to prevent any possible subsequent allegation that they were beaten and forced to confess. The reenactment will take place at the Pornchanok's house and at the canal where they disposed of the victim's body parts on Friday. (TNA)