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Published on September 26, 2007

The victim, Winij Jindakham, is said to have refused to perform oral sex on one of them late on Sunday night, leading to the fatal assault.

Following the discovery of Winij's body with about 50 knife wounds in Klong Ejang 1 irrigation waterway on Monday, police arrested two Mathayom-3 students from Phothawattanaseni school, Ae and Neung (not their real names), who reportedly confessed the murder to police.

The teens told police they had ridden a motorcycle to pick up Winij at his home at about 7pm on Sunday, because Winij had a crush on Neung and had asked them to go fetch him.

They went to a house belonging to Neung's friend, where Winij allegedly performed oral sex on Neung, after which Ae asked Winij to do the same.

However, the boy refused and told Ae he should not have made such a request.

On their way back, they stopped by the canal to urinate and Ae again asked Winij to comply, but the boy again refused.

Ae then allegedly pulled out a pocket knife and stabbed Winij until he fell into the canal. Ae then went down to the canal's edge and continued to stab him to make sure he was dead.

They then left Winij's body and threw the knife and the victim's cellphone away.

Police yesterday morning took the two suspects to the canal to retrieve the murder weapon, before taking them to give testimony to police in front of medical and psychiatric professionals.

They were then sent for detention at the Ratchaburi Juvenile Observation and Protection Centre.

Meanwhile, Child Protection Foundation secretary-general Montri Sintawichai said the number of youths committing violence was increasing.

He thought their circumstances directly affected their behaviour and they were now turning to violence to cope with problems in their family, community or even in the country.

A local source told Montri that Ae's father had said his son was not a bully and did not talk much.

"Just because the boy doesn't not talk much, it doesn't indicate that he is not aggressive," Montri said.

The Nation

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