NEW HAUNTING DETAILS REVEALED… – Thai police have released shocking new autopsy findings that they believe could shed crucial light on the d-e:ath of a teenage girl allegedly k!lled by Australian man Simon Carman.
Royal Thai police are investigating whether an Australian man drugged a 17-year-old girl before allegedly strangling her to death in his apartment.
The results of an autopsy on the body of Tunchanok Donhomla, which have yet to be finalised, will be a key part of the police probe.
Pattaya police chief Colonel Anek Srathongyoo said his team of investigators were conducting a thorough, forensic investigation into Ballarat-born man Simon Carman.
Mr Carman intends to plead not guilty, claiming he was acting in self defence.
“We’re waiting for the autopsy results to see if there is any DNA or drugs in her body and we’re going to follow the trail,” he said in an interview in his office on level two of the Pattaya police station.
Tunchanok Donhomla, 17, is believed to have been murdered and stuffed into a suitcase. Picture: Facebook
Colonel Srathongyoo said his team were also investigating reports that Mr Carman had been aggressive towards women working in bars in Pattaya.
“Simon, when he goes out to bars he has a tendency to be violent towards women,” he said.
The Australian embassy also provided information to Royal Thai police about allegations of violence towards women in Australia, he added.
This masthead has also uncovered claims that Mr Carman “bit” a woman in a bar on the same night he allegedly killed Ms Donhomla.
Marina Bar 2 hostess Sky Kanyarat, 23, said she saw Mr Carman in her bar.
“He bought one drink for the lady and drank one bottle of beer,” Ms Kanyarat said in a translated interview.
“Then he was grabbing her arm and he bit her on the arm, it left a mark.”
Simon Carman, reportedly from Ballarat, was arrested in Thailand for the alleged murder of 17-year-old Thai girl Tunchanok Donhomla. He allegedly killed her in his hotel room, stuffed her body in a suitcase, transported it on the back of a scooter, and dumped it a short distance away. Picture: Pattaya News
The accused killer had sat on a blue chair at the front left hand side of the bar for 30 minutes.
This masthead photographed Ms Kanyarat on that chair this week.
Her friend and the bar staff were concerned about Mr Carman’s alleged behaviour and he was refused sexual services.
Mr Carman was later seen at a convenience store with two young men and two young women.
That was shortly before Ms Donhomla’s friends captured chilling footage of them walking hand-in-hand along the Jomtiem Beach foreshore.
Mr Carman allegedly took the teenager back to his apartment on the 15th floor of the Rimhad Jomtien Condominiums, entering the lobby at 3.34am on June 25.
He was seen leaving with a suitcase at 9.48pm that day, which police alleged contained Ms Donohomla’s body.
Her remains were found dumped in a suitcase near railway tracks.
Mr Carman had been living at the apartment block for eight months.
CCTV footage allegedly showing Simon Carman, 46, and Thai girl Tunchanok Donhomla, 17, walking into his apartment block foyer. Picture: Pattaya News
He was involved in an accident recently when a scooter mounted the footpath and knocked him over.
Concerned friends raised the alarm about Ms Donhomla after she did not return after meeting Mr Carman.
A friend of the murdered teenager is seen visiting Mr Carman the day after the alleged murder. Pictured: Supplied
They visited his filthy apartment, which according to photographs had piles of messy clothes, empty alcohol bottles and WD-40, but he told them he had not seen her.
Police found an old passport when they raided his room on suspicion that he had harmed Ms Donhomla.
He was arrested just minutes before he passed through security at Bangkok airport.
Police say they would have been unable to press charges if he had boarded a flight to Perth last week.
Ms Donhomla’s body was cremated earlier this week, with her family holding a funeral service at a Buddhist temple.
