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PENANG: A former horse owner was brutally murdered, chopped into 10 pieces and packed in plastic bags before the remains were dumped along a roadside in Pa Daed in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Thai police believe Kwa Hock Choon, 41, a Penangite, was killed in connection with drug-related activities, especially along the Thai-Myanmar border.
"Kwa was believed to have been tied up, beaten and tortured before he was chopped with an axe into 10 pieces," said a Thai police spokesman.
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Police believe the gruesome murder was drug-related after they detained seven people, including a 38-year-old Malaysian and his 29-year-old Thai wife, in a series of raids in Chiang Mai and Haadyai several days after the remains were found on June 15.
The source said Thai police, during investigations into the killing, stumbled upon the activities of a major transnational drug syndicate that operates along the Thai-Myanmar border.
Kwa was an accomplished horse owner on the Malaysian racing circuit and had won the RM1mil Yang di-Pertua Negri Gold Cup with Centroview in 1999.
He was also the winner of the RM500,000 (S$215,800) Coronation Cup in 2001 with Baby Tycoon and the RM500,000 (S$215,800) Tunku's Gold Cup in 2002 with After Me Please.
A close friend who declined to be named said Kwa planned to make a comeback to horse racing this year after missing from the local circuit two years ago. "I spoke to him last month and he was keen to make a comeback."
