His own posts are now coming back to haunt him. As Australian truck driver Simon Peter Carman faces allegations over the death of Thai teenager Tunchanok Donhomla, old online comments have resurfaced, revealing remarks many are calling deeply disturbing. But the detail now drawing the most attention isn’t just the posts—it’s the suitcase seen on CCTV leaving the hotel, frame by frame… 👇🧳
The creepy and suggestive online interactions of Simon Peter Carman with multiple young Asian women on the social media platform Threads have been leaked and quickly circulated, thrusting the 45-year-old Australian truck driver’s lifestyle into the center of public condemnation. Before his arrest at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport for allegedly brutally murdering 17-year-old schoolgirl Tunchanok Donhomla and dumping her body in a suitcase, the British-born tradesman and truckie repeatedly used a younger photo of himself as his profile picture to approach girls in cyberspace. Message histories reveal that Carman frequently applied a boilerplate pickup line sent to numerous female accounts, asking “Hello Gorgeous, how are you doing? Where are you located?”, and was ready to respond enthusiastically when women suggested texting him privately. However, he also displayed a condescending and rude attitude when bluntly calling one woman “Too fat” directly under a selfie of her wearing a mini-dress, establishing a highly unstable online profile regarding his treatment of women before the tragedy unfolded.
In parallel with the shocking discoveries on social media, the Pattaya City Police Department also released infuriating details regarding the suspect’s chillingly calm demeanor in the hours immediately following the crime. Police Colonel Anek Srathongyoo revealed that from around 3:30 AM until 9:00 PM on the day of the murder, Carman casually went about his daily routine as if nothing had happened. Surveillance systems captured footage of him nonchalantly walking downstairs to buy food, eating breakfast, shopping for groceries, doing his laundry, and even chatting cheerfully with people in the hotel foyer. The abnormality only began to appear in the segment of the footage showing him preparing to take the suitcase containing the body to be disposed of; instead of exiting through the front entrance as usual, Carman sneakily wheeled his Yamaha motorcycle carrying the tightly wrapped black suitcase out through the back door to evade the attention of security staff.
The investigation that cracked the case and exposed the perpetrator’s actions relied heavily on digital evidence left behind by the victim and her friends. On the night of the incident, a male friend of Tunchanok used his phone to film her walking with Carman on the streets of Pattaya and proactively handed the footage over to police as soon as she was reported missing, providing the catalyst for police to successfully trace other security cameras. At the same time, the victim herself had sent a short text message to her group of friends shortly after arriving at Carman’s residence, stating that she had arrived at his apartment and that the room was very messy. Colonel Srathongyoo stated that this message was sent to reassure her friends so they did not have to worry, but unexpectedly turned out to be the ill-fated schoolgirl’s final communication before her life was taken.
Although Simon Carman continues to deny the murder charges, offering clumsy excuses of self-defense and delivering a late, hypocritical apology to the victim’s family on television, the girl’s family cannot hide their profound agony over this immense loss. Thongchai Donhomla, the victim’s biological father, along with stepmother Ordee Butrakhamare, had to travel a long distance from their impoverished home province of Kalasin in northeastern Thailand to claim their daughter’s body and witness the memorial tributes solemnly laid by local residents next to the railway tracks. Sharing through tears with local media, the grieving father stated that his daughter was an obedient and independent child from a young age due to the absence of a mother’s love, always finding a way to fend for herself whenever she needed something and never bothering her father, but instead always trying to work to help support the family.
