Jenjira Ployangunsri, aged 23, was a fifth-year medical student at the Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital in Bangkok in 1998. She had been in a relationship with Serm Sakhonrat, a second-year medical student at the BMA Medical College, who was one year her junior. The two had met a few years earlier at church (both were Catholic), when Serm was an engineering student (he had gained early university admission at the age of 15, and entered medical school after completing his engineering degree).
