The final text message exchange between accused Thai suitcase killer Simon Carman and his mother has been revealed.<\/p>\n
Victorian-born Carman is being held in a Pattaya jail over the death of 17-year-old Tunchanok Donhomla, whose naked body was found in a black suitcase next to a railway line last month.<\/p>\n
Mr Carman is expected to plead not guilty to the murder of the teenager, claiming he acted in self-defence.<\/p>\n
After seeing her son pictured in media coverage of the death of the teenager, the accused’s WA-based mother, Wendy Carman, sent him a frantic text message, a police source told the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n
She initially believed CCTV footage appearing to show her son had been generated using AI as part of a scam.<\/p>\n
According to the Daily Telegraph, the first message Mr Carman saw after authorities returned his mobile phone was from his mother.<\/p>\n
“There is a period of time after his arrest but before the first court appearance, when a judge decides whether a suspect gets bail or is moved to a detention centre,” a police source said.<\/p>\n
“During those hours, if it\u2019s no longer needed as part of police evidence, you can use your phone.”<\/p>\n
The source added that Mr Carman became emotional after reading the contents of his mother’s message.<\/p>\n
“He broke down and said, \u2018Even my mum\u2019s heard about it,\u201d\u2019 they added.<\/p>\n
“He got very upset when he read that message from her, and I think the reality of the situation finally sank in.<\/p>\n
“He had given his statement in a very matter-of-fact way before that.<\/p>\n
“He was even calm when he explained he had folded her body into a suitcase and put it away in his bathroom.”<\/p>\n
Mr Carman has been charged with intentional murder, concealing a corpse, moving or destroying a corpse, and abduction of a minor for indecent purposes, according to Thai police.<\/p>\n
It is alleged Ms Donhomla left Pattaya Beach Road with Carman at about 3.30am on June 25 after striking up a conversation with him.<\/p>\n
In the early hours of Thursday, they returned to his apartment, where she was strangled and killed, police said.<\/p>\n
A friend reported her missing on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The victim’s father, 46-year-old Thongchai Donhomla, previously said he is struggling to come to terms with the loss.<\/p>\n
“I am deeply saddened. My daughter had no mother, so whenever she wanted anything, she would find a way herself, and she always helped me too,” he said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the teen\u2019s stepmother called for her murderer to be “executed” if found guilty.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know what else to say… I just want him to face the full consequences,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The final text message exchange between accused Thai suitcase killer Simon Carman and his mother has been revealed.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,21,32302],"class_list":["post-46824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-simon-carman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}