Death penalty given to woman linked to 14 poisoning murders

A Thai woman believed to be among the worst serial killers in the kingdom’s history was found guilty of poisoning a friend with cyanide and sentenced to death on Wednesday in the first of 14 murder trials.

Sararat RangsiwuthapornThe 36-year-old online gambling addict is accused of defrauding his victims of thousands of dollars before killing them with chemicals.

A court in Bangkok found him guilty on Wednesday of fatally poisoning his friend Siriporn Kanwong.

The two met near Bangkok in April last year to release fish into the Mae Klong River as part of a Buddhist ritual.

Siriporn collapsed and died a short time later, and investigators found traces of cyanide in his body. Last year, the police said They collected fingerprints and other evidence from Sararat’s Toyota Forerunner.

Police were later able to link Sararat to unsolved cyanide poisonings dating back to 2015, officers said.

Speaking to reporters after the decision, Siriporn’s mother Tongpin Kiatchanasiri said, “The court’s decision is fair.” “I want to tell my daughter that I miss her so much and that justice was served for her today.”

Police said Sararat financed his gambling addiction by borrowing money from his victims — as much as 300,000 baht (about $9,000) in one case — then killed them and stole their jewelry and mobile phones.

They said he persuaded 15 survivors, one of them, to take poisonous “plant capsules.”

Sararat faces 13 other murder counts and has been charged with nearly 80 crimes in total.

Ex-husband Vitoon Rangsiwuthaporn police lieutenant colonel The victim’s family’s lawyer said he was sentenced to 16 months in prison and his former lawyer was sentenced to two years for complicity in Siriporn’s murder.

Although the couple was divorced, they were still living together. BBC reported. Police said Rangsiwuthaporn was likely involved in the alleged murder of Sararat’s ex-boyfriend, Suthisak Poonkwan, the BBC reported. Police said Rangsiwuthaporn picked her up in his car after killing her and helped her extort money from Suthisak’s friends.

Thailand has been the scene of many dirty and high-profile criminal cases.

Earlier this year, Six foreigners were found dead at a luxury Bangkok hotel following cyanide poisoning believed to be linked to debts worth millions of baht.

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