Thailand’s suitcase murder raises safety fears as Pattaya mourns for teen victim

Just days after she last saw a teenager, known to her friends as Cake, on Pattaya Beach, Ning began to realise the unfolding horrors that shocked Thailand. The body of the 17-year-old was found on Saturday, placed inside a black suitcase and dumped in scrubland next to a railway track. “I would see her often. I didn’t realise she was still just a child,’’ Ning, 22, told This Week in Asia, giving an alias. “Her murder breaks my heart.’’ Australian national Simon Peter Carman, 45, has been char...

By Aidan Jones