Thai police recover body of murdered Scot Alan Hogg & Thai wife Nott Suddaen (video)

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The bodies a British man and his wife missing in northern Thailand for the past five days were recovered today after police used earthmoving equipment to excavate part of their garden.

Alan Hogg, 64, and his Thai wife Nott Suddaen, 61, were reported missing from their home in Phrae province, northern Thailand, last Thursday, September 20.

Citing police sources, local media reported that Ms Suddaen’s brother, Warut Satchakit, had paid three men Bt50,000 (about US$1,542) to kill the pair, alleging that there was a long-running dispute. The report did not specify who the dispute was between, or details.

The report claimed three men currently in police custody had first shot dead Mr Hogg near his duck coop with a shotgun, before bludgeoning to death Ms Suddaen with a hammer in the family garage. A mini excavator owned by the couple was used to bury them beside a creek.

The three men were arrested by Thai police after selling the couples pickup truck last Friday, and have subsequently confessed to the double murder, local reports claim. Early today they returned with police to show them where they should look for Mr Hogg and Ms Suddaen’s bodies.

Mr Warut was initially arrested over the theft of Ms Nott’s white Ford Ranger, but was later released on bail. Local media reported late this afternoon that Mr Warut had been apprehended and charged with masterminding the double murders.

Mr Hogg was reportedly a former engineer who moved to Thailand and built the house he was murdered near himself. Originally from Edinburgh, Mr Hogg and Ms Suddaen are survived by a 31-year-old daughter, Robyn.

In Thailand confession to murder generally ensures that a sentence of death at trial is commuted to life in jail.

 

 

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Related:

  • Police find bodies of Briton, Thai wife buried on their Phrae land (The Nation)
  • All three suspects charged with murder of Brit, Thai wife (Bangkok Post)

 

 

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John Le Fevre

Thailand editor at AEC News Today

John is an Australian national with more than 40 years experience as a journalist, photographer, videographer, and copy editor.

He has spent extensive periods of time working in Africa and throughout Southeast Asia, with stints in the Middle East, the USA, and England.

He has covered major world events including Operation Desert Shield/ Storm, the 1991 pillage in Zaire, the 1994 Rwanda genocide, the 1999 East Timor independence unrest, the 2004 Asian tsunami, and the 2009, 2010, and 2014 Bangkok political protests.

In 1995 he was a Walkley Award finalist, the highest awards in Australian journalism, for his coverage of the 1995 Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) Ebola outbreak.

Prior to AEC News Today he was the deputy editor and Thailand and Greater Mekong Sub-region editor for The Establishment Post, predecessor of Asean Today.

In the mid-80s and early 90s he owned JLF Promotions, the largest above and below the line marketing and PR firm servicing the high-technology industry in Australia. It was sold in 1995.

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