"It was once a warm, loving family, but now my daughter is aware there are problems," she said.
Since the confrontation at the motel he had also started bad-mouthing her in front of their daughter. Once when their daughter called him on one of his trips, supposedly to Chiang Rai, he spoke to her brusquely, which aroused her suspicions. Her husband, she said, liked to claim he was away on lengthy business trips, and would refuse to have moo kra ta (Thai bar-b-que) meals with his family even as he was dining in the same style with his other woman. When asked if the woman she saw at the motel was the same person, he refused to say. She suspects the other woman is a teacher whom she discovered her husband taking an interest in years ago. "I have decided to make the clip public because he won't take responsibility," she said. She is demanding compensation and maintenance to support their child, but her husband insists he has no money to give her. Ms Prang said she left her husband after the motel encounter and talks between them have collapsed.
They include romantic chats, video calls, and pictures in which the couple goes on outings together, wears matching clothes, even matching sanitary masks. Ms Prang said her daughter managed to unlock the phone, which yielded a treasure trove of incriminating evidence showing the extent of her husband's illicit relationship. "I told him I would give it back but I wanted to remove the evidence of his philandering first," she said. She does, however, grab his smartphone, setting off feverish scenes, not caught on the clip, in which her husband gives chase from the motel as he attempts to retrieve his phone. Later, as the father tries to explain himself outside to their daughter, Ms Prang heads back inside to confront her husband's sleeping partner, who has managed to take her belongings and flee through the back door. The clip shows her husband inviting her outside to plead with her, as the couple's daughter looks sadly at her father. Ms Prang says she doesn't care, as she intends filing for a divorce. She is able to gain entry to the room, where her husband's sleeping partner denies sheepishly that she is a kept woman. He can be seen inside with the woman, who is still in bed. In the dramatic scenes which followed, Ms Prang, phone in hand and accompanied by their daughter, knocked angrily at the window of her husband's unit. Having finally tracked down her husband to the motel, Ms Prang told staff that she had come to see a friend. "I was praying so I would have my eyes finally opened as to the extent of his unfaithful behaviour," she recalled later. She was still driving around at 8am the next day, praying for divine intervention, when she finally saw her husband's car parked at a motel nearby. She even visited the local police station, asking to see footage from CCTV cameras around the 7-11, but they told her to come back during business hours. It shows my husband standing next to a woman at the counter as they make their purchase," she told the media last week after she decided to make his affair public.Īfter seeing the CCTV vision, Ms Prang drove about for hours looking for her husband's car. "I persuaded the staff to show me their CCTV vision.
Ms Prang set off in her car to track down the branch, though she had to visit four or five outlets before she found the right one. She contacted the 7-11 call centre to ask about the purchase.Ĭlaiming someone had stolen the card, she asked where the purchase had been made. Ms Prang had given her card to her husband, who was supposedly away on a business trip. The purchase raised her curiosity, as she knew nothing about it. Prang Natpimol, 39, was sitting at home with their 10-year-old daughter on Oct 9 last year when a message arrived on her phone about 9.49pm saying she had earned new points for the purchase of four packs of sanitary napkins and a drink of milk.