Chumphon governor Somdee Khachayangyuen yesterday ordered the revocation of a death certificate issued to a woman who faked her death to escape a jail term.
Mr Somdee instructed Tha Sae district office to revoke the document certifying the death of Juree Jan-ngam, 72, of Chumphon's Tha Sae district, after she turned herself in to police on Tuesday.
The province will also report the issue to the Provincial Administration Department to remove her death record from the Interior Ministry's database, he said.
The revocation came after authorities found Juree faked her death to escape life imprisonment for hiring a hitman to kill her son's fiancee, Riewprae Chotikarn in Songkhla on Dec 13, 2007.