Thai Police Charge Australian, 45, in 17-Year-Old's Suitcase Murder as CCTV Tightens Timeline
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Updated · The Guardian · Jul 1
Thai Police Charge Australian, 45, in 17-Year-Old's Suitcase Murder as CCTV Tightens Timeline
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Jul 1
Summary
Security footage reviewed by the Guardian shows the missing 17-year-old’s friend visiting Simon Peter Carman’s Pattaya condo on 26 June shortly after reporting Thunchanok Donhomla missing.
Police say Donhomla’s last text read, “don’t worry I already arrived in the room. It’s messy,” and CCTV later showed her holding hands with Carman in the condo lobby before she vanished.
9pm footage then showed Carman leaving the building with a suitcase, riding off on a motorcycle for about 20 minutes and returning without it, according to Pattaya police.
Carman, 45, has denied murder charges after Donhomla’s body was found in a suitcase near railway tracks; police also charged him with concealing a corpse and offenses tied to taking a minor for indecent purposes.
The new footage sharpens the timeline in a case that began when Donhomla, who had arrived in Pattaya about a week earlier, failed to return after going out with a foreigner.