EVERYTHING INSIDE LOOKED WRONG 💥 CHILLING PHOTOS FROM AUSTRALIAN SUSPECT’S APARTMENT EMERGE AS MU-RDER INVESTIGATION TAKES A DARKER TURN
Grim photos have emerged of the dingy and cluttered flat where an Australian man allegedly strangled a Thai teenager to death.
Simon Peter Carman, 45, from Perth’s southern suburbs, remains in custody after the body of 17-year-old Tunchanok Donhomla was found inside a black suitcase near railway tracks outside Pattaya last Friday night – two days after she was last seen.
Police allege the British-born truck driver placed the teen’s naked body into the suitcase before dumping it in long grass a day earlier.
Carman was arrested at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport just minutes before he allegedly tried to board a Jetstar flight to Perth.
An unnamed friend of Ms Donhomla visited Carman’s cluttered condo after reporting the teen’s disappearance to police.
Photos obtained by the ABC show the friend confronting Carman in the untidy unit, where piles of clothing were strewn everywhere.
The top of the fridge was littered with cleaning products and multiple empty alcohol bottles.
A small pink bow was seen stuck on the front door.
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Simon Carman is accused of killing Tunchanok Donhomla (pictured), whose body was found inside a black suitcase near railway tracks outside Pattaya on Friday night
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Photos emerged of Simon Carman’s flat after the Thai teen disappeared. Carman had rented the condo for eight months
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Carman, 45, was arrested by police in Thailand last Friday
Room 380 at Rimhad condominium in Jomtien, which Carman rented for eight months, can be entered via a dingy hallway where the electrical wires are strung up alarmingly like power lines in Australian streets. The transoms above the doors are lined with newspapers.
Inside it is hardly different with tiny rooms big enough to hold only a double bed, a TV, a nightstand and a small couch.
Extension cords are suspended between a fridge and a microwave opening off onto a tiny bathroom with cracked and mouldy tiles.
The photos of Ms Donhomla’s friend in the room emerged as more witnesses detailed Carman’s alleged movements in Pattaya on the night she was last seen.
Marina 2 Bar and Grill manager Kanyarat Duangdao said Carman appeared intoxicated when she saw him at the bar with another girl before he left alone at 1am.
Another witness told the ABC they saw Carman approach Ms Donhomla and several friends on a beachside street two hours later.
An autopsy has revealed that she died from strangulation, her family told The Age.
Her grieving relatives, who travelled 600km to Pattaya, have since taken her body home in Thailand’s north-east.
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Ms Donhomla’s body was found inside a black suitcase dumped near railway tracks outside Pattaya last Friday night – two days after she was last seen
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Hotel footage captured Ms Donhomla with Carman shortly before she was allegedly strangled to death
Carman has been charged with murder, concealing and moving a body, and taking a minor aged between 15 and 18 for sexual purposes.
He denies the allegations and claims he acted in self-defence, alleging that Ms Donhomla attacked him with a knife during an argument over money.
In taped interviews released by police, Carman addressed Ms Donhomla’s family.
‘I feel bad for what happened to your daughter,’ Carman said.
‘It was out of my control.’
Carman remains in custody at Pattaya Remand Prison, where he is halfway through a mandatory 10-day quarantine period in isolation.
A date has not yet been set for his first court appearance.
A murder conviction in Thailand can result in the death penalty or a jail sentence of between 15 and 20 years.
If convicted, Carman will likely be transferred to the maximum-security Bang Kwang Central Prison, known as the ‘Bangkok Hilton’.
The notorious jail is also dubbed by locals as ‘The Big Tiger’ because it ‘eats men alive’
SOURCE: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15942875/Tunchanok-Donhomla-alleged-murder-Thailand.html
