Irishman suspected of torching Pattaya house

When a local Thai woman returned to er bungalow after a dinner date with a new beau, she found her home had sustained considerable fire damage. She immediately suspected her former lover, an Irishman, to have set the house ablaze. Her former lover is still her current husband, and 29-year old Uraiwan Busba has no doubt it was a jealous rage that left her bedroom burned out with a total of 300,000 baht in damages.

Fire fighters arrived at the Moo Baan Pattaya Park Hill 2 condo with 10 fire engines shortly after 01:00 yesterday and it took 10 minutes to fully extinguish the flames. The fire had been started in the bedroom, and the girl’s three relatives who were in the house at the time managed to escape safely. Busaba told police that her Irish husband had bought the house for her, but they were having troubles and they were going through a separation process.