Plutaluang police arrested a Cambodian fisherman for allegedly robbing and killing a karaoke bar hostess.
Mu Set, 33, was brought to re-enact the killing Sept. 7, a day after he allegedly killed Luksanaree Suttitham, who worked at Aom Karaoke in Plutaluang’s Eakthani Market. He was charged with assault inflicting death, and theft.
Luksanaree was killed in her room about 50 meters from the karaoke club shortly after midnight Sept. 6. Bar owner Orawan Momta, 56, said she’d been drinking with a customer she assumed was a Cambodian laborer.
Security cameras caught Mu Set following her back to her room after the bar closed.
About 30 friends and family members of the 43-year-old Buriram native swarmed the re-enactment, requiring about 20 police officers to keep the suspect safe.
Police took less than six hours to catch their suspect, using CCTV footage to identify and track Mu Set back to the Samae San fishing pier.
Police said a drunk Mu Set followed Luksanaree back to her apartment intent on raping her. But she fought back and he slit her throat and stole her mobile phone. Mu Set then disposed of the blade on the road near the pier.
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