Matichon reporting that the suspect in the killing of the Swiss tourist is in fact a 27 year old Thai man who lived nearby. We are still waiting for the police press conference #Thailand #PhuketSandbox

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1423921756360765442

 

4 hours ago, Harsh Jones said:

The Sun header.

 

 

The Sun doesn't really count as a proper newspaper. It's trash/garbage.

3 hours ago, joecoolfrog said:

Wrong !

Its in all the British papers and on the BBC.

Thailand for a number of reasons , some of which cannot even be mentioned , has been getting bad press for some time over here.

This horrible crime simply reinforces that negativety.

The murder was mentioned very briefly about 2 hours ago on cable station CNA - Singapore news.

4 minutes ago, Kinnock said:

Investigated ...... certainly ...... along with anyone else who may be a suspect, which could include any of the 3000 tourists on the island, plus the local Thai people.  Calling in to the nearest migrant camp and arresting a worker with scratches on his face should just be part of an ongoing investigation.  For the police to say the investigation is over at this stage is very odd.

 

He may have immediately confessed to the crime , knowing he will have is jail term cut in half .

   Its now been suggested that the man is Thai and not Burmese .

   Will you change your mind now about his guilt ?

1 minute ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

He may have immediately confessed to the crime , knowing he will have is jail term cut in half .

   Its now been suggested that the man is Thai and not Burmese .

   Will you change your mind now about his guilt ?

Nope ...... still too soon to conclude the investigation.  If the suspect has scratches, then perhaps they can be matched to DNA from the fingernails of the poor victim ..... but that takes time.

 

And I'm not convinced that an alleged confession is necessarily evidence.  

Has the murderer been caught yet? I would like to know whether he is Thai or foreigner...

4 minutes ago, Kinnock said:

Nope ...... still too soon to conclude the investigation.  If the suspect has scratches, then perhaps they can be matched to DNA from the fingernails of the poor victim ..... but that takes time.

 

And I'm not convinced that an alleged confession is necessarily evidence.  

They havent tried and convicted him yet .

He will still need to go to Court .

The Police are satisfied that they have caught the perpetrator and he will have his day in Court

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From other local news sources, the arrested suspect is a 27 years old Thai man, living locally in the area of the crime.

Personally I couldn't care less what nationality the animal who murdered the poor woman is.

I just hope that justice prevails .

28 minutes ago, EricTh said:

Has the murderer been caught yet? I would like to know whether he is Thai or foreigner...

Stay right there , I will just scroll back  and read the thread and then get back and let you know .

  Be right back

Matichon News are reporting that a 27-year-old Thai man has confessed... Claims to meet the deceased while going up to the forest to find things.

 

Source

3 minutes ago, Jai Dee said:

Matichon News are reporting that a 27-year-old Thai man has confessed... Claims to meet the deceased while going up to the forest to find things.

 

Source

Geocashing?

 

 

23 minutes ago, Jai Dee said:

Matichon News are reporting that a 27-year-old Thai man has confessed... Claims to meet the deceased while going up to the forest to find things.

 

Source

Good to see the Man from Myanmar was not the suspect and they got the real one

3 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Good to see the Man from Myanmar was not the suspect and they got the real one

No, its the same guy . 

The Police didnt state his Nationality

A Tweet stated he was Burmese . 

Now its been suggested that he was Thai .

Although there has only been one suspect all along , just confusion about his Nationality 

Injury he says sustained whilst attempting to rape the lady, and he slipped on a rock.

 

 

Burn in hell

Police say there will be a press conference tomorrow about the murder of the Swiss tourist. They insist the suspect is not a scapegoat as he has already confessed.

 

Source.

On 8/6/2021 at 10:11 AM, vandeventer said:

I wonder does Thailand have a large CSI lab to track down the killer or killers? If not it may be better to have than two submarine's.

Subs are off the agenda.

On 8/6/2021 at 11:13 AM, SCOTT FITZGERSLD said:

what is your problem with taxi drivers? most are honest hard working people

 

On 8/6/2021 at 11:20 AM, Caldera said:

RIP to the lady and my condolences to her family and friends. Horrible news.

 

That's a major blow to "Safe and Trusted Thailand", to have a murdered tourist on their hands after merely a month and among a group of just about 15,000 tourists in total.

 

If all the Burmese migrant workers are "bubbled and sealed", they might actually have to arrest a Thai for this crime this time around. Hopefully they'll make a sincere effort to find the real perpetrator(s)..

Could it not be a holidaying falang, why must it be a thai or migrant worker

13 minutes ago, Almer said:

 

Could it not be a holidaying falang, why must it be a thai or migrant worker

Could be, but he doesn't look like a holidaying farang.

2 hours ago, Jai Dee said:

Matichon News are reporting that a 27-year-old Thai man has confessed... Claims to meet the deceased while going up to the forest to find things.

 

Source

 

There goes the Phuket sandbox project thanks to this Thai guy!

 

If he was a foreigner, at least the government can give an excuse that they can't control foreigners but not when it's a local Thai.

 

 

 

1 hour ago, Jai Dee said:

Police say there will be a press conference tomorrow about the murder of the Swiss tourist. They insist the suspect is not a scapegoat as he has already confessed.

 

Source.

Weird how so many suspects confess in Thailand

37 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

Weird how so many suspects confess in Thailand

What is the sentence for a murder charge in Thailand? Would anybody just confess?

 

 

Just now, EricTh said:

What is the sentence for a murder charge in Thailand? Would anybody just confess?

 

 

Wouldn't you confess if your genitals were being squeezed, or worse?

18 minutes ago, EricTh said:

What is the sentence for a murder charge in Thailand? Would anybody just confess?

Death sentence. But no actual executions since long.

I don't know whether confession earns him life sentence.

In the end the same result except a moody person show thumbs down and the execution is performed (a surprising single case in 2018 first after 2009).

 

15 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

Death sentence. But no actual executions since long.

I don't know whether confession earns him life sentence.

In the end the same result except a moody person show thumbs down and the execution is performed (a surprising single case in 2018 first after 2009).

 

And the 2009 double execution was for drug trafficking not murder!

13 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

And the 2009 double execution was for drug trafficking not murder!

2018 was a robber and murderer (for an iPhone).

8 hours ago, Bruno123 said:

After the tsunami? To us it was anyone who arrived after 1998. 

And to the guys who arrived in the '60's and '70's, you were part of the problem.

 

Gotta love the folks who cluster around a destination, then gripe about the folks who cluster around a destination.

 

https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/crime/update-suspect-in-swiss-murder-in-phuket-is-a-thai-man

 

" the suspect is in fact a 27 year old Thai man"