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Australian arrested after Thai teen girl found dead in suitcase

Simon Peter Carman faces charges of murder, concealment of a body, moving or destroying a body, and taking a minor for sexual purposes

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Police officers pose with Carman Simon Peter, an Australian man arrested in the suspected murder of a 17-year-old Thai girl in Pattaya, at Suvarnabhumi International Airport, Thailand on Saturday. Pattaya Provincial Photo: Police via Reuters
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The family of a 17-year-old Thai ⁠girl whose body ⁠was found in a suitcase ⁠in Pattaya said they were devastated by her death, for which an Australian man has been arrested and charged with murder.

Thai police said they arrested an Australian man in his 40s at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport ‌early on Saturday in connection with the killing in Pattaya, about 150km (93 miles) east of Bangkok.

The suspect, identified as Simon Peter Carman, faces charges of murder, concealment of a body, moving or destroying a body, and taking a minor for sexual purposes.

Thai police said they reviewed CCTV footage that showed Carman ⁠entering a condominium with the girl, then leaving alone hours later carrying a suitcase.

In ‌a post on its official Facebook page, police said he loaded the suitcase onto a motorcycle and rode to a grassy ‌area near a railway line. Police later issued an arrest warrant and arrested ⁠Carman at the ⁠airport as he prepared to board a flight back to Australia.
Rescue workers, police officers and forensic technicians search a grassy area near a railway track before police found a suitcase containing the body of a 17-year-old Thai girl in Pattaya on Saturday. Photo: Reuters
Rescue workers, police officers and forensic technicians search a grassy area near a railway track before police found a suitcase containing the body of a 17-year-old Thai girl in Pattaya on Saturday. Photo: Reuters

In an investigation room at the police ‌station, Carman issued a message to the victim’s family before being transferred to the Pattaya Provincial Court.

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