A 17-year-old Thai girl was on a lively strip of palm-fringed sand in the seaside city of Pattaya on Wednesday night where a friend said she met a foreign man and struck up a conversation.
Investigation
In the early hours of Thursday, they returned to his apartment, where she was strangled and killed, police said. Two days later, Thai police said they found the teenager’s naked corpse, stuffed inside a suitcase and dumped in waist-high grass, near a railway track, a short distance away from the beachfront.
Thai immigration authorities at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport apprehended a middle-aged Australian man, Simon Peter Carman, as he prepared to board a flight out of the country. Carman has been charged with intentional murder, concealing a corpse, moving or destroying a corpse and abduction of a minor for indecent purposes.
Police Colonel Anek Srathongyoo, the superintendent of Pattaya City police station, told Reuters that Carman made a partial confession, stating that he did not intend to kill her, but admitted strangling her, causing her death.
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