Jilted husband ‘takes revenge on ex-wife by blowing up her car’

A jilted husband allegedly took revenge on his ex-wife by blowing up her car as she slept in it with her new lover.

Shocking CCTV footage shows the heartbroken man walking across a petrol station before throwing a homemade petrol bomb on to a car in Nakhon Si Thammarat province, Thailand on March 17.

The man in red shirt, identified by police as Niwat Chankaew, allegedly tracked his ex-lover’s pickup truck and erupted in rage after seeing she was with another man.

Niwat is then said to have returned with a molotov cocktail and hurled it to the truck while his ex and another man were sleeping as flames quickly spread all over the vehicle.

Pattarapond Kongsidee, 26, scrambled to safety with only minor burns. She told police they stopped over at the gas station to rest while travelling to deliver fruit with her new boyfriend Suchart Suksakul, 38, when the incident happened.

She said she reported the incident to the police, who later arrested Niwat on and took him on a crime reconstruction on April 29.

He reportedly confessed to setting his ex-lover’s car alight because he was heartbroken over the split and that she owed him money.

Niwat told local media he was not hiding from the police and was waiting for them to arrest him.

Police Captain Rakkiat Chotsak said that officers are still working on the case.

He said: "We interviewed and interrogated all witnesses and the evidence was already collected. We initially invited the man who was allegedly on the video for questioning but he did not show up. An arrest warrant was issued and we found him and he confessed to starting the fire."

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