A computer programmer with an honors degree from a prestigious university shot himself to death on Monday morning after suffering from a headache and depression, police said.

A 57-year-old housemaid, whose week-old decomposed body was found on Thursday night at a retired Army general's two-storey house in Bangkok's Phayathai district, was said to have been sick two weeks earlier, Metropolitan Police Bureau 1 deputy chief Pol Colonel Chayut Marayat said on Friday.