Sh0cking Twist in Thailand Case as Perth Man Allegedly Mu-rd-ered Girl and Hid Bo-dy in Suitcase
Chilling new details have emerged just days after a Perth man allegedly murdered a girl in Thailand and stuffed her body in a suitcase.
Simon Carman, 45, is facing the death penalty after being charged over the death of 17-year-old Tunchanok Donhomla.
The teenager’s body was found in a suitcase near railway tracks just outside Pattaya, about 10 minutes from the hotel where Mr Carman was staying on Saturday morning.
t is alleged Mr Carman engaged the teenager for sex before killing her. He denies murdering her, claiming he acted in self-defence after allegedly being attacked during a payment dispute.
Mr Carman has since been charged with murder, concealing a body, moving or destroying a body, and an offence relating to taking a minor aged between 15 and 18 for sexual purposes.
However, in a gruesome revelation, this is not the first time a woman has been found dead in a suitcase in Pattaya.
According to DailyMail, two other bodies have been discovered stuffed into suitcases in the last three years.
PerthNow does not suggest Mr Carman has any connection with the two other bodies or that any allegation to that effect has been made.
In September last year, a half-naked woman — who officers have still not been able to identify — was found dead and bound inside a suitcase floating in a reservoir.
The suitcase was reportedly secured with heavy chains, padlocks and cable ties when a member of Thailand’s national rowing team spotted it while training nearby.
Police believe the woman is a foreigner in her early 30s who died from asphyxiation.
The tragic discovery came just six months after another eerily similar find.
In February 2025, a local fisherman’s line became hooked on a suitcase floating in Ban Chang — just a 43 minute drive from Pattaya city.
When police officers arrived to inspect the contents of the suitcase, they found the naked body of a woman.
The suitcase had been weighed down with dumbbells, like the Pattaya murder.
This woman has also not yet been identified.
