Husband ‘killer’ released from jail for retrial
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A Nakhon Si Thammarat woman sentenced to life in prison for her husband’s 2003 murder has been released pending a retrial after the Justice Ministry re-opened the case based on the discovery of evidence that suggests she might be innocent.
Jarupan Woonsuwan was released by order of the Appeals Court Region 8 after serving almost seven years at Thung Song Prison, said deputy permanent secretary for justice Dussadee Arayawuth.
Jarupan filed a petition with the ministry, claiming she didn’t hire Thawatchai Phokaew to kill her husband for Bt80,000. After Jarupan passed a lie detection test, Thawatchai admitted to wrongly implicating her and was jailed for 18 months for the additional charge of providing false testimony, Dussadee said.
