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<\/p>\nA 45-year-old Australian man accused of murdering a 17-year-old girl in Thailand has told her family he feels “bad for what happened” to their daughter. <\/p>\n
Simon Peter Carman was arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok on Friday after Tunchanok Donhomla was reported missing. <\/p>\n
Shortly after, police found a large suitcase near railway tracks, which contained a naked body identified as that of Tunchanok.<\/p>\n
In a video recorded while he was in custody, Carman spoke directly down the camera and addressed Tunchanok’s family, saying he felt bad for “what happened to your daughter”.<\/p>\n
“It was out of my control,” he said. “Um, I hope you \u2014 I know you’ll be very sad, upset; same-same me.<\/p>\n
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Simon Peter Carman was arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok. (Source: Nine)<\/p>\n
Carman has been charged with four offences; murder, concealment of a body, moving or destroying a body, and taking a minor aged between 15 and 18 for sexual purposes.<\/p>\n
CCTV allegedly shows the 45-year-old walking hand in hand through his hotel lobby in Pattaya with a 17-year-old girl around 3.30am (local time) on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Around 9.30pm that night, vision allegedly showed Carman leaving his hotel with a black suitcase, before strapping it to a scooter and riding to a railway line about 10 minutes away.<\/p>\n
The girl\u2019s body was found stuffed in a suitcase in grassy scrubland beside the track.<\/p>\n
Carman reportedly also told authorities he acted in self-defence, alleging Tunchanok threatened him with a knife. <\/p>\n
Speaking to Reuters outside a police station in Pattaya, Tunchanok’s father, Thongchai Donholma, said he was “deeply saddened” by his daughter’s death and said she was always helpful to him.<\/p>\n
“We were scared. We just hoped it wouldn’t turn out the way we feared,” her stepmother, Oradee Bussarakum, said. <\/p>\n
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