Explanation lacks ring of truth

YASOTHORN: After being arrested, a mobile phone thief told the officers that he stole the phones so that he would be sent to jail – the only way he could think of to get away from his hen-pecking wife. Niwatanachai Plaesaeng, a mechanic, confessed to stealing phones from customers who had left them in their cars. The young thief explained that his 18-year-old wife followed him everywhere, even to work, and wouldn’t give him a moment of peace. He said that stealing the phones was a deliberate attempt to put himself in the only place he could think of where his wife couldn’t follow: the slammer. Police, however, didn’t buy his story, and said they suspected Niwatanachai was a member of a gang of mobile phone thieves.