According to the indictment, in a note from the Oporto District Prosecutor's Office, "the defendants killed the so-called Thai collaborator, after which they cut the body to pieces, decapitated it and put at least the head in the freezer", some time between 28 December 2018 and 07 March 2019.

They did so, according to the Public Prosecutor's Office, in the massage parlour that they both ran in Matosinhos, with the collaboration of the victim", who worked there as a masseur.

After the murder, the District Attorney's Office claims "they disposed of the body parts, leaving the head in a plastic bag, inside or next to a container placed on the beach of Leça da Palmeira", in the municipality of Matosinhos.

About a month later, on April 5, the Polícia Judiciária (PJ) arrested, as an alleged author of the crime, a 52-year-old Thai masseur, Sangam Sawaiprkhon, who is awaiting the development of the trial in pre-trial detention, charged with murder and desecration of the body of her compatriot and employee Natchaya Jenrob, 40 years old.

On 15 August this year, the PJ announced the arrest of a suspect who was responsible for the actual murder and desecration of a corpse.

In a communiqué issued at the time, PJ's Northern Department explained that the 32-year-old man was arrested "on the Turkish-Greek border" and is a Pakistani citizen for whom the victim was working, who "left" Portugal "as soon as the appearance of the woman's head was reported".

The murder and decapitation of the victim are related to an alleged debt of the defendant to the victim of €10,000, "which she insisted on seeing paid," the police explained in a statement, after arresting the suspect.

The Thai press was interested in the case and even reported that the husband of the alleged murderer, a man born in Pakistan, but who acquired Thai nationality, was complicit in the crime.