Photos show room where police allege Thai teenager was last seen

A friend of 17-year-old Tunchanok Donhomla visits the room of Australian man Simon Carman the day after she went missing. (Supplied) Photos obtained by the ABC show Tunchanok Donhomla's friend in the room where police allege Australian man Simon Peter Carman murdered the teenager. Mr Carman has been charged with murder and attempting to conceal a body after Ms Tunchanok's body was found dumped in a suitcase. Mr Carman will remain in custody for up to 84 days while police continue to gather evidence. Link copiedShareShare articleNew photographs reveal the cramped room where Australian man Simon Peter Carman allegedly murdered Thai teenager Tunchanok Donhomla. Police allege the 45-year-old picked up the 17-year-old near Pattaya Beach in the early hours of June 25. A 45-year-old Australian man is in custody after the body of a teenage girl was found in a suitcase in Thailand. Her body was found two days later, stuffed inside a suitcase that had been dumped near railway tracks about a 10-minute drive from Mr Carman's hotel. Photos obtained by the ABC show Ms Tunchanok's unnamed friend inside Mr Carman's cluttered hotel room the day after she went missing. Other photos show a pink bow stuck on the front door, piles of clothing on the couch and ironing board, paper and water bottles on a small table, and several empty rum bottles on top of the fridge. The ABC understands the friend was there searching for the 17-year-old, whose nickname was "Cake", after lodging a missing persons report with police. Friends of 17-year-old Tunchanok Donhomla reported her missing after they could not contact her. (Supplied) But by that time, the teenager was already dead. Mr Carman was arrested last Friday by Thai police at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok and has been charged with murder, concealing and moving a body, and taking a minor aged between 15 and 18 for sexual purposes. Police allege Simon Carman picked up Tunchanok Donhomla, 17, from the Beach Road vice strip in Pattaya. (Supplied: Pattaya police) More details have also emerged about Mr Carman's movements in the days and hours before Ms Tunchanok was killed. Kanyarat Duangdao, the manager of Marina 2 Bar and Grill in Pattaya, told the ABC she witnessed Mr Carman the night he met Ms Thanchanok. The interior of the room Australian murder suspect Simon Carman was living in during his stay in Pattaya, the day after teenager Tunchanok Donhomla went missing. (Supplied) He was with a different girl at the bar around 1am, she said, and he was drunk. She said he left the bar alone about an hour later. Another witness said they saw Mr Carman approach Ms Thanchanok and two of her friends on a beachside street about 3am. An Australian man charged with the murder of a 17-year-old girl in Thailand tells her family her death was "out of my control". The woman who rented the room to Mr Carman told the ABC he had been staying in the building since late 2025 and moved to his current room in February. While living there, he appeared to lead a normal life, the woman said, speaking to the ABC on condition of anonymity. She said she knew Mr Carman to be a farmer in Australia and that when he visited Thailand, he would often swim, eat out at restaurants and was friendly with people. Police have alleged Mr Carman confessed to strangling Ms Tunchanok until she lost consciousness before keeping her body in the bathroom until that evening. CCTV allegedly shows him dragging a large suitcase from his room at about 9:25pm, strapping it to a motorcycle and riding away before returning to the accommodation about 35 minutes later. Police say Simon Carman came to Thailand as a tourist and rented the hotel room for a year. (Supplied) Police Colonel Srathongyu said it was Mr Carman carrying a suitcase via a rear elevator that first raised suspicion. When the 45-year-old returned to the hotel about 20 minutes later without the suitcase, police suspected a crime. "We tracked him down until we found information that he was about to flee the country. We had to rush to find the suitcase." Because Ms Thanchanok was a minor, Police Colonel Srathongyu said, officers were able to stop Mr Carman leaving the country by arresting him for child abduction while they searched for the suitcase. Australian Simon Peter Carman "lived his normal life", going out, washing his clothes and talking to neighbours after allegedly murdering a teenage girl and stuffing her body inside a suitcase in Thailand, police say. Police Colonel Srathongyu also revealed details of Mr Carman's life in Thailand, telling the ABC that he had come to the country as a tourist and had rented the hotel room for a year. "He has no prior criminal record; we have never received any reports of criminal offences regarding him," he said. According to immigration records, he said, Mr Carman had successfully applied for an extension when his initial visa expired. "He stated that he likes Thailand, wants to travel, and wants t

Photos show room where police allege Thai teenager was last seen

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