Thai police arrest Australian over killing of teenager found in suitcase
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Suspect was stopped at Bangkok’s main airport as he tried to fly home.
Thai police have arrested an Australian man over the suspected murder of a 17-year-old girl whose body was discovered inside a suitcase near the resort city of Pattaya.
The man, identified as Simon Carman, 46, was detained on Friday evening at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport as he prepared to board a flight to the Australian city of Perth, according to police and local media.
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Investigators say security cameras captured the girl entering a condominium with the man in the early hours of Thursday.
Analysis
Hours later, separate footage showed him leaving the building with a large black suitcase, which he loaded onto the back of a motorbike and rode away.
The girl’s naked body was later found inside the case, dumped near a railway line a short distance from where she was last seen.
Police said she had suffered a severe assault, with heavy bruising to her face.
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