Son stabs his father to death with kitchen knife for forgetting to add fish sauce to his pork soup in Thailand

  • Sakdin Duangphakhon got angry when his lunch took too long to cook 
  • Then he flew into a rage when his father Ngor said he forgot to add fish sauce
  • Thai police found him calmly lying on a hammock covered in his father's blood 
  • He had to return to the crime scene and say a prayer to his father's corpse

By Luke Barnes For Mailonline

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An son stabbed his father to death with a kitchen knife after he forgot to add fish sauce to his favourite pork soup.

Sakdin Duangphakhon, 36, bought the meat for lunch but became angry after dad, Ngor, 65, was taking too long to boil it at their home in Buriram in southern Thailand.

He confronted his father and then flew into a rage when his dad told him he had forgot to add fish sauce - a staple ingredient in Thai cooking.

Sakdinon grabbed the empty bottle and hit him over the head before slapping his mother Pa, 66, when she tried to intervene.

She ran for help while her son picked up a kitchen knife and repeatedly stabbed his father in a frenzied attack.

Police arrived and found the son covered in blood calmly laying in a hammock at the front of the single-storey home.

Officers took the handcuffed son to the scene on Friday to re-enact the crime.

They even made him kneel down and apologise to his father's corpse.

Ngor Duangphakhon, 65, was hit on the head with a bottle before being stabbed repeatedly

Ngor Duangphakhon, 65, was hit on the head with a bottle before being stabbed repeatedly

Deputy Inspector Colonel Nitipat Kitichartchai said: 'The father volunteered to cook the pork.

'The son went to drink a some liquor and then wanted to eat the food. But the dad said it was not finished and not cooked yet. 

'The son did not want to wait. Then he said he forgot the fish sauce and he became angry.'

The son, who has two brothers, had to kneel down, apologise and say a prayer next to his dead father when he returned to the scene. 

Col. Nitipat Kitichartchai said the son admitted the murder and has been sent to Amphore Nangrong prison in Buriram to await sentencing.

He added: 'It was reported to us that the son had used a knife to stab the father at the home.

Sakdin Duangphakhon stabbed his father before calmly laying down in a hammock

Sakdin Duangphakhon stabbed his father before calmly laying down in a hammock

'I knew we would have to go to investigate the scene. It is a single storey house. The father was wearing a loin cloth without a shirt.

'He had more than 10 stab wounds on his back, particularly across the left shoulder, and one the deeply penetrated the heart. The smell of blood stained the area.

'I asked the wife how her husband died and she identified her son as the killer. He was found outside the house in a cradle (hammock) with a lot of blood on him but he was not injured.

'He was detained while we investigated the home.'

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