Bangkok police confirmed that a warrant of arrest is out for Mr Hsu Wei Hua, who fled the crime scene in his wife's BMW.
Singaporean suspect 'may surrender soon'
BANGKOK police received an anonymous phone call on Sunday, informing them that the Singaporean thought to have killed his wife's lover would surrender in a few days.
Bangkok Metropolitan Police Bureau spokesman, Major-General Piya Uthayo, told The Straits Times last night that the police in the Bangkok suburb of Sutthisan received the call from a man who asked what would happen if the Singaporean were to turn himself in.
Maj-Gen Piya said the police could not be sure if the caller was the suspect, whom he named as Hsu Wei Hua.
'We told him that the Singaporean can go to any police station. Then the man said that maybe the Singaporean would surrender in a few days,' he added.
The caller then hung up, he said.
Bangkok police confirmed that a warrant of arrest is out for Mr Hsu.
The 38-year-old is alleged to have stabbed his wife's lover, Mr Ittiphan Kuwakorn, nine times during a scuffle at a condominium unit in the popular Chatuchak area last Thursday.
Thai media reports said Mr Hsu had eavesdropped outside the door of the apartment, then kicked the door in and found his wife naked with Mr Ittiphan, 26, who is known in the motorsport fraternity as a drift driver.
Footage from a closed-circuit television camera showed the two men getting into a scuffle along the corridor outside the apartment.
Mr Hsu then went into the apartment and came back out with a knife.
After Mr Ittiphan was stabbed, he stumbled into the bedroom where he collapsed and died.
Mr Hsu fled the scene in his wife's BMW, leaving his Singapore passport and driver's licence at the scene.
Records with the Registry of Marriages show that he married a Thai woman named Siriwan Yaemsi in 2009.
That was his second marriage; he had been married to a Singaporean woman 12 years prior to that.
When The Straits Times visited a Tuas plastics manufacturing company, for which Mr Hsu was listed as a director between 1998 and 2001, a former business associate who spoke on condition of anonymity described him as someone who hated confrontation.
He added, however, that he and Mr Hsu had not been in touch, and that the man could have changed in the more than eight years since they last spoke.
Employees from another company for which Mr Hsu is still listed as a director and shareholder claimed they did not know him or anything about him.
The police in Singapore said they have not been asked by the Thai police to help out in this case.
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He allegedly stabbed his Thai wife's lover to death after catching the two together, naked, in a condominium in Bangkok. Now an anonymous caller has tipped off the Bangkok police, saying the Singaporean man would 'surrender in a few days'.
Previously, STOMPer Zaitsev wrote in about the incident, warning Singaporeans to beware when marrying someone from a different culture, as they could find themselves in a similar situation. CCTV footage of how Singaporean Hsu Wei Hua, 38, allegedly stabbed Mr Ittiphan Kuwakorn, 26, repeatedly with a knife was also uncovered.
In a report in The Straits Times today (Nov 29), Bangkok Metropolitan Police Bureau spokesman, Major-General Piya Uthayo, told the paper last night that the police in the Bangkok suburb of Sutthisan received the call from a man who asked what would happen if the Singaporean were to turn himself in.
Maj-Gen Piya said the police could not be sure if the caller was the suspect: "We told him that the Singaporean can go to any police station. Then the man said that maybe the Singaporean would surrender in a few days."
The caller then hung up.
Suspect Hsu Wei Hua left behind his Singapore passport and driver's licence at the scene when he fled in his wife's BMW. Records with the Registry of Marriages show he married a Thai woman named Siriwan Yaemsi in 2009. This was his second marriage.
Mr Hsu was listed as a director between 1998 and 2001 for a Tuas plastics manufacturing company, and is still listed as a director and shareholder of another company.
Singapore police has not been asked by the Thai police to help out in this case.
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