Paralysed elderly woman found with son’s decomposing body
An 84-year-old woman was found living alone in a house in Ubon Ratchathani province with the decomposing body of her 50-year-old son, who is believed to have died a week earlier.
A neighbour alerted police on Sunday evening after she smelt a stench coming from the women’s house.
The neighbour had not seen the woman’s son for about a week.
When no one answered the elderly woman’s door, police broke into the two-storey town house in the Theprit housing estate in tambon Warinchamrab of Warinchamrab district and found the woman, Hia Kittiphaisit, barely breathing on a bed beside the front door.
She was taken to Warinchamrab Hospital.
The body of Sutthisit Kittiphasit was found lying face-down.
Thong Asirujjinda,75, who lives next-door to Hia, said the woman lived with her son alone and she was paralysed and her son had cared for her.
Police did not detect any sign of foul play at the scene.
The hospital has not yet performed an autopsy to determine the cause of the son’s death.
