A 72-year-old woman who faked her death to avoid prison for murdering her son’s fiancée has officially come back from the dead.
Juree Jan-ngam, who had been on the run for months, turned herself into the cops on Tuesday and on Friday they cancelled her death certificate, Bangkok Post reported.
Juree had been sentenced to death over the December 2007 murder of Riewprae Chotikarn, who was just two weeks away from getting hitched to Juree’s son Wikrom.
Riewprae, who was three months’ pregnant, was shot dead along with her assistant in Songkhla.
Juree was convicted of hiring gunman Narin Janchay to kill her son’s fiancee, who she disapproved of because she was from a poor family.
She and Narin were both sentenced to death.
However, after appealing her sentence twice, Juree was released on bail and in February this year her daughter Rasamee Jan-ngam, 40, claimed she had died and showed officials a death certificate.
She also demanded the return of the THB5 million bail money.
However police were tipped off that Juree had been spotted shopping at Hat Yai market, and her daughter had also been seen frequently driving to meet her.
The Supreme Court ruled in her absence she had not actually died and jumped bail, but commuted her death sentence to life.
After months of police searching, Juree finally turned herself in. She still protests her innocence over Riewprae’s murder.
Cops will now investigate Rasamee and the village officials responsible for issuing Juree’s death certificate.
