The CCTV has changed everything. New details have emerged about Australian man Simon Peter Carman, accused of murdering a Thai teenager, as footage reportedly shows him leaving a hotel with a large suitcase. But the image now haunting investigators is the suitcase rolling silently through the hotel lobby just hours before the horrifying discovery… 👇🧳
The shocking criminal case in Pattaya involving 46-year-old Australian suspect Simon Carman is drawing increasing public attention as the dark details of his troubled past and a trail of sharp forensic evidence are released by Thai authorities. According to information from the police department, Simon Carman is a British-born tradesman and truck driver who operated a mobile refueling service between Perth and regional Victoria, while maintaining a permanent residence in the coastal National Park region of Western Australia’s Southern Ocean. Upon cross-referencing records from the Western Australian Police, investigators discovered that Carman possesses a substantial criminal history back home, with a series of past charges including disorderly behavior in a public place, driving while disqualified, and demanding property with threats. This historical data indicates that the suspect had a documented tendency toward volatile behavior and a disregard for the law long before setting foot in Thailand.
Following a missing person report lodged by friends of 17-year-old Tunchanok ‘Nong Cake’ Donhomla, Pattaya City Police rapidly tracked her movements and discovered a 73cm black suitcase abandoned in thick long grass beside local railway tracks. Upon unsealing the container, forensic teams witnessed a gruesome scene as the body of the teenage girl was found crammed inside completely naked, bearing visible wounds and blood across her face and body.
Distinctive tattoos on her back, arms, chest, and left leg directly matched images on the victim’s personal social media accounts, allowing police to immediately confirm her identity despite initial suspicions that she may have been operating under a fake ID away from her home province of Kalasin. Inside the suitcase alongside the body, forensic technicians recovered vital pieces of evidence, including the white Onitsuka trainers the victim wore in the surveillance footage, jeans, underwear, a mobile phone case, a wallet, and her gold bracelet and necklace. When confronted by interrogators regarding the fresh scratches and bruises tracking down his neck and arms, Carman fiercely denied that the marks were sustained during a violent struggle with the victim, offering a bizarre on-camera explanation that the injuries were caused by spiders that were constantly emerging and biting him inside his rented condominium unit.
The sequence of the crime and Simon Carman’s subsequent attempt to flee were completely reconstructed by the investigative team using extensive closed-circuit television data from the surrounding area. At 3:34 AM on June 25, lobby cameras captured Carman and Ms. Tunchanok walking hand-in-hand into the building after meeting at the bustling “Coconut Bar” strip on Beach Road. Later that evening, between 9:25 PM and 9:48 PM, security cameras filmed the man, dressed in a singlet and shorts, casually wheeling a large suitcase out of the condo entrance, strapping it onto a Yamaha motorbike, and driving toward the railway tracks, where he disappeared from camera view for exactly nine minutes to dump the remains. Shortly after, from 9:57 PM to 10:06 PM, the surveillance system recorded Carman returning to the condominium complex alone without the suitcase. By 11:36 AM on June 26, a missing person report was officially filed for the victim, and at 2:26 PM that afternoon, Carman abruptly packed his bags and fled the condo. Thanks to the discovery of his passport details left in the room, police immediately requested an emergency arrest warrant from the court and activated an alert across the immigration network, successfully intercepting Simon Carman at Suvarnabhumi Airport at 1:15 AM on June 27, just minutes before his Jetstar flight to Australia was due to depart, with search teams locating the suitcase containing the body just fifteen minutes later.
