{"id":946539,"date":"2026-10-30T15:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T15:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/946539\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T15:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T15:56:15","slug":"simon-carman-perth-man-accused-of-killing-thai-teen-says-hes-not-an-evil-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/946539\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Carman: Perth man accused of killing Thai teen says he\u2019s not an \u2018evil monster\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Perth man accused of killing a Thai teenager and hiding her body in a suitcase claims he is not an \u201cabsolute evil monster\u201d.<\/p>\n

Simon Peter Carman claimed to Nine newspapers that he was the victim of a street hustle gone wrong.<\/p>\n

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Simon Peter Carman told Nine Newspapers he\u2019s the victim of a street hustle gone wrong and claimed he\u2019s not an \u201cabsolute evil monster\u201d.\u00a0Zach Hope<\/p>\n

The 46-year-old has spent the past four months behind bars in Thailand, fighting claims he intentionally strangled the underage girl to death.<\/p>\n

In the new interview from jail, the former truck driver said he had good reason not to call police the night 17-year-old Tunchanok Donhomla, nicknamed Cake, died.<\/p>\n

Carman is facing the death penalty or life over the alleged murder.<\/p>\n

He was seen on CCTV walking hand-in-hand with the 17-year-old to his Pattaya apartment in June.<\/p>\n

She was never seen alive again.<\/p>\n

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CCTV allegedly shows Carman walking hand in hand through his hotel lobby with 17-year-old Thanchanok Donhomla.\u00a0Supplied<\/p>\n

Carman said they got into a physical struggle after he claims the teen threatened him with a pocket knife to his throat, demanding money.<\/p>\n

Speaking through a telephone behind a large glass panel and bars, he said he pinned her to the ground before she died.<\/p>\n

An autopsy found the teenager died from suffocation and a brain injury.<\/p>\n

Carman told The Age he was 100 per cent certain he didn\u2019t restrict the teen\u2019s airway.<\/p>\n

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He was seen on CCTV walking hand-in-hand with 17-year-old Tunchanok Donhomla (pictured) to his Pattaya apartment in June.\u00a09News<\/p>\n

\u201cI could physically see her breathing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

“She had, like, a floral dress on, and I could see her ribcage and stomach going up and down.”<\/p>\n

Last month, he confessed in court to hiding the girl\u2019s body in bushland near railway tracks.<\/p>\n

Carman says police corruption was the reason he didn\u2019t call for help.<\/p>\n

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Carman is facing the death penalty or life over the alleged murder.\u00a0Supplied<\/p>\n

He claimed he had once been breath tested by \u201cfake police\u201d who allegedly coerced him into paying 20,000 Baht ($850).<\/p>\n

Carman originally denied all charges against him, including murder.<\/p>\n

However, he changed his plea to one of the charges after a judge said leniency would be on his side if he admitted to concealing the teenager\u2019s body.<\/p>\n

Carman returns to court in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Perth man accused of killing a Thai teenager and hiding her body in a suitcase claims he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-946539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}