A 48-year-old German man was taken into police custody on Sunday night after he stabbed his Thai wife to death in front of their two young children at the family home in Bavaria.

The couple, named only as Helmut and Nanthida, had been having relationship issues and a heated argument over a return to Thailand on Sunday evening turned into a bloodbath when the German repeatedly stabbed his wife with a large kitchen knife as their 7-year-old son and 10-month daughter looked on.

Police and medics found the woman in a pool of blood with multiple stab wounds but despite the best efforts of the paramedics, the woman was pronounced dead at the scene.

The German newspaper Bild revealed the couple met ten years ago in Thailand and had been married for eight, living in Wernberg-Köblitz, a market town in the Schwandorf district of Bavaria.

Neighbours told police the couple had been having problems lately as Nanthida wanted to return to live in Thailand with the two children.

The suspect was charged and remanded in prison after a brief appearance at the District Court on Monday. The two children are now in the care of their grandparents at the family home.





