Parents Built Him the Perfect Life—Now Simon Carman Faces Horrific Murd-e-r Allegations in Thailand
HIS PARENTS DREAMED OF THE PERFECT FUTURE… NOW HE’S IN A THAI PRISON ACCUSED OF A H0RRIFIC CRI-ME 
THE TRAGIC STORY BEHIND SIMON CARMAN’S FALL
The Australian accused of killing a Thai teen and stuffing her body in a suitcase grew up in an idyllic harbour village after his family moved across the country for a new life.
Simon Peter Carman is charged with murdering Tunchanok Donhomla, 17, in the seedy seaside hotspot of Pattaya last Thursday and dumping her remains in a 29-inch suitcase on a railway siding that night.
But Carman was the same age as the girl he allegedly murdered when his family swapped regional Victoria’s Ballarat for picturesque Oyster Bay in Western Australia‘s Great Southern region.
As a 17-year-old, Carman moved with his parents into the first of several homes overlooking the breathtaking estuary close to Albany’s deepwater port on Princess Royal Harbour.
His father, Brian Carman, 68, had worked in Ballarat as a technician for the government body which ran Australia Post and Telecom (now Telstra).
By the 1980s, Mr Carman and his wife Wendy, also 68, owned property in Jerramungup, the gateway to WA’s Fitzgerald River National Park, 450km south-east of Perth.
But in 1997, the couple sold that rural property and moved their family from Ballarat into a sprawling 4-hectare spread in Kalgan on the edge of Oyster Bay.
While Simon’s brother was sporty, car-mad Carman apparently lacked any matching talent and instead worked on a farm as a teenager, without any tertiary qualifications
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Simon Peter Carman was the same age as the girl he allegedly murdered when his family swapped regional Victoria’s Ballarat for picturesque Oyster Bay in Western Australia
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Simon Peter Carman is charged with murdering Tunchanok Donhomla, 17, in the seedy seaside hotspot of Pattaya last Thursday and dumping her remains in a 29-inch suitcase on a railway siding that night.
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Pattaya police officers opened the suitcase and found Ms Donhomla’s naked body inside, along with her belongings, including the clothes she had been wearing
The Carmans lived in Kalgan for more than a decade before investing in the boutique suburb of Bayonet Head, across Oyster Bay from Kalgan, with spectacular views and all the advantages of living in inner Albany.
After finishing school in the late 1990s, Carman briefly registered a business, Simon’s Agricultural Services, but it did not last.
He lived in the three-bedroom Bayonet Head house with his parents before moving out on his own, up to Rockingham, just south of Perth.
The Daily Mail can reveal that Carman’s family now lives in a $1.5million home in a waterside enclave in a boutique suburb of Albany.
While living in a squalid unit in one of Rockingham’s industrial parks, and in other suburbs south of Perth, Carman worked as a mechanic and truck driver transporting fuelling systems.
His drop-off points included locations in Victoria, as well as Leda and Casuarina, near WA’s largest maximum-security correctional facility for men, Casuarina Prison.
In recent years, Carman reportedly lived off a disability pension and workers’ compensation payments he was awarded for injuries he suffered as a truck driver.
Now 45, his posts on social media revealed Carman has had links to Thailand sex workers for more than a decade and regularly travelled to and from the country.
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Police arrested Simon Carman at Suvarnabhumi Airport at about 9.30pm on Friday, just minutes before his Jetstar flight, JQ76, to Perth was due to depart
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As a 17-year-old, Carman moved with his parents into the first of several houses overlooking Oyster Bay, near Albany’s deepwater port on Princess Royal Harbour
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CCTV shows the Simon Carman leading Ms Donhomla through the foyer of his condo at Pattaya last Thursday around 3.30am
He had reportedly been living in Pattaya for at least eight months before he was arrested at the dingy condominium where Thai police allege he murdered Ms Donhomla.
The girl’s family, who live in a mostly poverty-stricken region of Kalasin province, in Thailand’s far north, near the Laos border, said she had only travelled to Pattaya 12 days before her death.
Ms Donhomla had made the trip south with an LGBTQIA friend who was attending Pattaya’s Gay Pride events, and had reportedly acquired a fake ID, which added five years to her age.
The girl’s father, Thongchai Donhomla, and stepmother, Ordee Bussarakum, are both just a year older than their daughter’s alleged killer.
Ms Bussarakum said she was a ‘good girl’ who supported the family and had kept in touch with them daily while in Pattaya.
CCTV footage along the Beach Road stretch known locally as ‘Coconut Bar’, where street food stalls and bars operate in the early hours, showed Carman walking hand-in-hand with Ms Donhomla.
Towering over the diminutive teen, he walked slowly before the pair are said to have gone back to his flat at the Rimhad Jomtien Condominium complex.
At 3.34am, building CCTV showed Carman leading the girl by the hand through the foyer into an elevator.
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Police allege Simon Carman strapped the suitcase stuffed with Ms Donhomla’s body inside (above) to his bike and took it on the ten-minute trip to the dumping spot near Pattaya markets
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Simon Carman is in Pattaya police custody, charged with murder, concealment of a body, burying, moving or destroying a body to hide death or its cause, and taking a minor for indecent or sexual purposes
Around 9.30pm, vision shows Carman leaving his condo wheeling a black suitcase.
He is then caught on camera with the suitcase strapped onto the back of his red and black rented Yamaha Aerox motorcycle as he allegedly rode to a railway line behind the Pattaya Floating Market, about ten minutes away.
Pattaya police allege he dumped the suitcase, with Ms Donhomla inside, in grass beside the track, then drove back to his condo, packed his belongings and left.
When Ms Donhomla failed to return to her friends, they reported her missing and told police she was last seen with a foreign man.
Police searched the condo and seized the motorcycle, took DNA and fingerprint samples but found no sign of Carman.
On Friday, Thai authorities issued an urgent alert through the Immigration Bureau system while Pattaya investigators sought an arrest warrant.
Police arrested Carman at Suvarnabhumi Airport at about 9.30pm on Friday, just minutes before his Jetstar flight, JQ76, to Perth was due to depart.
Less than three hours later, at 12.08am, officers opened the suitcase and found Ms Donhomla’s naked body inside, along with her belongings, including the clothes she had been wearing in the CCTV footage with Carman.
Carman is currently in Pattaya police custody, charged with murder, concealment of a body, burying, moving or destroying a body to hide death or its cause, and taking a minor for indecent or sexual purposes.
He faces the possibility of the death penalty if convicted, or life in prison.
SOURCE: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15940079/simon-carman-thanchanok-donhomla-pattaya-suitcase-murder.html
