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Thai Men Admit Rape Of British Teenager On Holiday


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Two Thai men have admitted raping a British teenager who was backpacking in a popular tourist resort, according to reports.

 

Police in the town of Kanchanaburi arrested two men for the rape of the 19-year-old early on Tuesday morning.

 

According to Thai media reports, the woman, who has not been named, spent Monday evening with a group of foreign tourists but found herself alone outside a restaurant at 1.30am.

 

She was approached by two Thai teenagers on a motorcycle, who offered her a lift. Instead, they took her to a deserted spot, where they raped and robbed her.

 

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, in keeping with rules about confidentiality, confirmed only that it had provided consular assistance to a British national after an “incidentâ€.

The two suspects, identified from security camera footage, had confessed to the crime, reports said. The victim has returned to Britain.

 

Kanchanaburi is famous for its museums devoted to the “death railway†built by Japan using the labour of Allied prisoners of war, many of whom died of disease and exhaustion.

“The woman told police she had been drinking with her friends after dinner at a restaurant,†Police Colonel Weerapong Chernpakdee told a press conference in Kanchanaburi yesterday.

 

“About 1.30am, she was outside the restaurant in Kanchanaburi town when . . . motorcyclists offered to give her a lift back to her resort. Instead, they took her to a section of jungle . . . where they raped and robbed her.â€â€™

 

The incident comes eight months after the murder of two British tourists on the Thai resort island of Koh Tao. Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24, were beaten to death on a popular beach after a party in a bar near by. Ms Witheridge was also raped.

 

Source : Times.

 

Two Burmese migrant workers, Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Htun, both 21, have been charged with the murders, but lawyers acting on their behalf insist that they have been framed.

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