Oradee Bussarakum told the media she wants the man responsible for the murder to be executed.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a stepmother, I don\u2019t know what else to say. I just want him executed. I said it this morning. I even asked the police if I could hit him, if I could beat him. Please, just let me. The police told me not to, that he would face the full [consequences] regardless,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Tunchanok Donhomla, 17, had only arrived in Pattaya days before her death. Photo \/ Facebook<\/p>\n
Tunchanok\u2019s parents travelled from their home in the northeastern province of Kalasin to Pattaya after she was reported missing and will now be there to collect their daughter\u2019s body.<\/p>\n
They said that this had been the girl\u2019s first visit to Pattaya and she had only arrived there days before her murder. Her parents, who described her as a helpful person and with no history of drug use, allowed her to travel with a friend.<\/p>\n
The girl’s parents were inconsolable in an interview after her body was found in a suitcase. Photo \/ ABC<\/p>\n
They reportedly learned of her murder while on their way to Pattaya, after the girl\u2019s friend reported her missing. <\/p>\n
Carman, 45, was detained by Thai immigration at Bangkok\u2019s Suvarnabhumi Airport at around 9.30pm local time (2.30pm on Saturday NZT).<\/p>\n
Carman was allegedly trying to leave on a flight to Perth<\/a> before he was taken into custody over the alleged murder of a 17-year-old girl, local media reported.<\/p>\n What is known about Tunchanok Donhomla\u2019s final moments<\/p>\n Authorities in Thailand are still investigating exactly what happened before the 17-year-old\u2019s body was found inside a large suitcase.<\/p>\n CCTV footage shows the 45-year-old walking hand in hand through his hotel lobby in Pattaya with a young woman at around 3.30am local time on Thursday.<\/p>\n At around 9.30pm that night, video footage shows Carman leaving his hotel with a black suitcase.<\/p>\n He is then seen strapping it to a scooter and riding to a railway line about 10 minutes away.<\/p>\n The girl\u2019s body was later found stuffed in a suitcase in grassy scrubland beside the track.<\/p>\n The Bangkok Post reports police found signs of a struggle at Carman\u2019s condominium, as well as his passport, and authorities then arrested him at the airport attempting to buy a ticket to Australia.<\/p>\n The Post reported Carman told police he had not known the 17-year-old before they met and he agreed to pay 1000 baht ($53) \u201cfor her time\u201d.<\/p>\n There was an argument over the price at Carman\u2019s room, The Post reported, \u201cafter which the suspect alleged that the girl picked up a knife to threaten him and demand more money\u201d, the major Thai outlet reports.<\/p>\n \u201cHe claimed he then acted in self\u2011defence, grabbing her neck and causing her death. He insisted he had no intention to kill.\u201d<\/p>\n In a video recorded after his arrest, Carman said he feels \u201cbad for what happened\u201d<\/a> but claimed the situation was \u201cout of my control\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel bad for what happened to your daughter; it was out of my control,\u201d he said in the video.<\/p>\n \u201cI know you will be very sad, upset, same me. It shouldn\u2019t happen and I hope you okay, I know you\u2019re not, but I hope,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Carman remains in the custody of Pattaya City Police, awaiting a court appearance.<\/p>\n Sign up to Herald Premium Editor\u2019s Picks<\/a>, delivered straight to your inbox every Friday. Editor-in-Chief Murray Kirkness picks the week\u2019s best features, interviews and investigations. Sign up for Herald Premium here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oradee Bussarakum told the media she wants the man responsible for the murder to be executed. \u201cAs a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7818,1135,5842,250052,690,634,11773,4190,16719,1649,2109,2082,1874,6868,19724,305,42,1364,78,2944,5620,3375,440,5158,1073,82528,43,1118,3766,23941,60012,2687,6037,34551,5163,25067,8229,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-500672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-allegedly","tag-australian","tag-calling","tag-carman","tag-dead","tag-death","tag-deeply","tag-demand","tag-emotional","tag-execution","tag-family","tag-for","tag-found","tag-girl","tag-given","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-her","tag-in","tag-inside","tag-interview","tag-killed","tag-local","tag-man","tag-media","tag-murderaccused","tag-news","tag-of","tag-parents","tag-penalty","tag-saddened","tag-saying","tag-simon","tag-suitcase","tag-teen","tag-thai","tag-they","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}CCTV footage captured Tunchanok and Carman entering his accommodation together in the early hours of Thursday. Photo \/ Pattaya News<\/p>\n
Thai immigration detained Simon Peter Carman, 45, at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport.<\/p>\n