British gal raped and murdered Samui

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TOURIST?S KILLING: Two held for Samui murder

Published on January 10, 2006

 

Fishermen confess to raping, killing Welsh student Katherine Horton after DNA match

 

Police have arrested two fishermen for the rape and murder of Welsh tourist Kathe-rine Horton on the island resort of Koh Samui last week after a DNA analysis of semen recovered from her body linked them to the crime.

 

The two, Bualoy Pothisith, 23, and Wichai Somkhaoyai, 24, were on a fishing boat moored off the island?s Lamai Beach on the night of January 1. Horton was attacked that night while walking on the beach alone as she was talking

 

to her mother on her mobile phone. Her body was found in the sea off another beach the next morning.

 

A DNA analysis of the semen recovered from the body showed that it matched the blood samples taken from the two suspects and police have used this as scientific proof to back up their arrests, said deputy police commissioner General Preowpan Damapong.

 

The two have confessed to the crime and have been charged with gang rape and premeditated murder, he said.

 

Region 8 deputy police commissioner Maj-General Santhan Chayanon said the suspects drank alcohol and watched a pornographic movie on their fishing boat, the Poh Sirichok, on the night of January 1 before they swam ashore and spotted Horton.

 

?They said they intended to find a woman to have sex with after watching the adult movie,? Santhan said.

 

The two saw Horton talking on the phone on the beach a few hundred metres from her bungalow at the New Hut Resort and one of them hit her with the wooden pole of a beach umbrella that was close at hand. The two then dragged her behind a pile of rocks about 40 metres away and raped her, according to Santhan.

 

After the sexual assault, they hit her again with the same umbrella pole and then dragged her about 20 metres into the sea and left her there, he said.

 

The two returned to their fishing boat after the crime and went out on a fishing trip on another, bigger boat the next day. Investigators zeroed in on them after learning from their colleagues that they had suspiciously asked to go out to sea again without taking a break ashore like the other fishermen, said Central Investigation Bureau deputy commissioner Maj-General Asavin Kwanmuang.

 

?Undercover police later managed to get aboard that boat and took 29 crewmen for questioning. Two of them confessed to the crime during interrogation,? he said.

 

The body of Horton, 21, a psychology student at Reading University in Cardiff, was found floating a few kilometres from Lamai Beach on January 2. Her mother, Elizabeth, reported that she was talking to her daughter on the phone on the night of January 1 when she heard Katherine scream, before the line suddenly went dead.

 

The two suspects were flown to the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Bangkok early yesterday morning for a DNA test before being taken back to Koh Samui for detention. Arraignment in court is scheduled for tomorrow, police said.

 

Preowpan said he had instructed police at all local tourist destinations to strengthen security measures for tourists to prevent any more crimes in wake of the Horton case.

 

Police commissioner Gen Kovit Wattana yesterday gave Bt100,000 to the police team investigating the case as a reward for having made arrests quickly.

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SLAIN TOURIST: Fishermen confess to rape, murder

Published on January 10, 2006

 

Suspects had been drinking and watching porn before attack, police report says. Only seven days after the body of Katherine Horton washed ashore and was found on Koh Samui?s Lamai beach on January 2, two fishermen confessed to raping and murdering the young Welsh tourist, following an intense interrogation.

 

Bualoy Phothisith, 23, from the northeastern province of Ubon Ratchathani, and Wichai Somkhaoyai, a 24-year-old workmate from the southern province of Nakhon Si Thammarat, were taken into custody late Sunday morning and confessed early yesterday.

 

Their confession was found to be consistent with the results of DNA testing.

 

According to the police report, Wichai and Bualoy confessed they had just finished swimming and were about to return to their trawlers when they saw Horton approaching.

 

They told the police that earlier in the evening they had been drinking and watching porn videos with four other crewmembers aboard one of two trawlers anchored side-by-side a few hundred metres off the beach where Horton had been staying.

 

They told police they had found the 21-year-old sexually arousing and decided to seize her when they realised she was alone.

 

As she walked past them, Wichai allegedly smashed her on the neck with the rod of a beach parasol.

 

As he continued to bludgeon her, Bualoy grabbed her, police said.

 

During the attack Wichai accidentally whacked Bualoy in the face with the rod, the report said.

 

The mark on Bualoy?s face caught the eye of investigators on Sunday when they were interrogating about three dozen fishermen who had been working on seven boats that had been anchored off Lamai beach the night Horton was murdered.

 

On December 31, Horton and a friend from England, Ruth Adams, checked in at the New Hut beachside resort on Lamai beach.

 

Four Western men they had befriended on the ferry ride from Surat Thani also checked into the same beachfront resort.

 

The two women and their new friends took a boat from the island to nearby Koh Pha Ngan for a New Year?s Eve party then returned to their resort the following morning.

 

That day was Horton?s last.

 

Sometime between 9pm and 10pm that evening Horton received a call on her mobile from her mother in the United Kingdom.

 

As she was chatting on the phone, she went for a stroll along the beach while her friends returned to their huts.

 

Horton had barely taken more than a few dozen steps on the beach when she was brutally attacked. Her mother heard her daughter scream and then the phone line went dead.

 

The two fishermen confessed that as Wichai started pummelling Horton, she dropped her mobile phone, the police report said.

 

Bualoy and Wichai then dragged Horton to the edge of the sea about 30 metres from where they first attacked her.

 

The two men told police she was still alive and fighting to break free.

 

They allegedly took turns raping her.

 

They then dumped Horton on the beach and swam back to their trawlers, they told police.

 

She was still alive when they left her, they said.

 

Police, however, had reason to doubt this part of their confession because Thong Krong beach, where Horton?s body had been found floating in the water, was quite a distance from where Bualoy and Wichai said they had left her.

 

When Bualoy and Wichai returned to the trawlers they started bragging and chanting ?Roi jung who?, which in the southern dialect means ?Oh so yummy!?

 

According to police, the four other crewmembers, including a deputy head of one of the two trawlers, asked Bualoy and Wichai what it was they were feeling so gleeful about.

 

Still drunk, the two men simply told the others that they had just raped a foreign woman on the beach.

 

Next morning Bualoy and Wichai went out to sea to fish with several other members of their crews who had just returned from their daylong shore leave.

 

The fact that both Bualoy and Wichai had been on watch aboard their trawlers during the night of Horton?s murder would soon mark them as likely suspects.

 

Police said after some six hours of interrogation Bualoy finally cracked at around 2am yesterday and confessed to attacking and raping Horton.

 

Wichai at first insisted he had not raped Horton but only helped subdue her.

 

At least three members of the crew who were also aboard the trawlers that night said the two men had not brought Horton back to the boat.

 

Bualoy and Wichai were taken to Bangkok for physical examinations and DNA testing.

 

The results showed sperm samples taken from Horton?s vagina matched the two suspects? DNA.

 

Faced with the evidence, Wichai confessed to raping the young woman.

 

A medical examination showed Bualoy had several scratch marks on him, indicating that his victim had been fighting hard to keep him away.

 

Horton?s body was found on January 2 about three kilometres from the New Hut resort, where she had been staying.

 

Initially, the investigation focused on people staying or working at New Hut.

 

Among the first of the more than 30 people, including six foreigners, to be taken for questioning and DNA testing by police were the four Western men who had been staying at the same resort and socialising with Horton and Adams.

 

A few days after Horton?s body was found, however, a crucial piece of evidence emerged.

 

Police were notified about a waitress at the Buddy Pub and Restaurant who had been given a mobile phone by a middle-aged Western couple who said they had found it on the beach.

 

The pub was only a few hundred metres from the New Hut resort. The phone turned out to be Horton?s.

 

On Sunday, Chris and Gill Burrows, the British couple who had stumbled across Horton?s mobile phone, testified in advance to the Surat Thani Provincial Court on Koh Samui.

 

The day before the couple had identified themselves to police in Bangkok, after learning that investigators were looking for them in relation to Horton?s death.

 

The British couple proved to be valuable witnesses.

 

They told police they had seen the young woman chatting on the phone and looking happy on the beach some 200 metres from Buddy Pub and not far from New Hut.

 

The couple was walking along the beach that night after dinner and it was on their way back that they found the mobile phone lying on the sand.

 

They picked it up and gave it to a waitress at Buddy Pub.

 

On Sunday in court Gill said she thought she might have heard a woman?s scream coming from the edge of the sea.

 

Her testimony turned police?s attention to the trawlers that had been near the crime scene.

 

A number of witnesses, including the Burrows, recalled seeing trawlers near the beach during the night Horton was killed.

 

A day later, on Sunday, investigators zeroed in on Wichai and Bualoy.

 

Arthit Khwankhom,

 

Anan Paengnoy

 

The Nation

 

Koh Samui

[dddave]

In my home city of Boston, there were almost 100 homicides this past year; less than 25 have been solved. Over the last ten years, the arrest and conviction rate for homicides has been less than 30%.

 

We are quick to ridicule and complain about police in Thailand but it looks like some pretty good work was done by competent investigators in this sad case.

 

Of course, they don't have to warn their suspects "That anything you say may be used against you" and provide them with a phone to call lawyer.

[Central Scrutinizer]

Limbo,

 

Happy to see these cunts are finally in jail and got caught. I just keep thinking of how horrible it was for this poor girl, walking on the tropical beach, happily talking to her Mum on her mobile, clelbrating the New Year and having a nice holiday on a sunny resort island, and then bam, she's smashed in the skull with a stick and dragged behind some rocks and gang raped by these animals who then drown her, go back to their boat, and celebrate like they scored a goal in a football match. I do hope they suffer before they die at the hands of the Thai authorities and their cellmates. They deserve much worse. My deepest sympathies to her family and friends for their loss. I just can't imagine if it were my own daughter how I would feel and what I would do. A very sad and sickening story.

 

We need to warn all the women we know that do visit here to be very careful when alone and to avoid dark areas when alone. There is a reason most Thai ladies are fearful being alone around the country after dark. There is a very dark side here that needs to be warned of. It's not all sunny smiles and warm sandy beaches.

 

Cent

[chilli13]

so true cent

[Paillote]

limbo said:

SLK is referring to UK visitors, you're not saying there are more than 5 UK murders a year in PTY, are you?

 

Nope. You are mistaken, he only divided UK population by number of visitors to Thailand. Interestingly, if you consider only UK arrivals of about 400.000 per year with an average stay of 14 days, a comparable murder rate to the UK would give 0.2 murders per year...

 

Paillote

[chuckwoww]

Riots halt murder inquiry

 

Jan 10 2006

 

By David James And Gerry Holt, South Wales Echo

 

 

A horde of angry Thais brandishing wooden clubs broke up a police re-enactment of the murder of Katherine Horton.

 

Hundreds of islanders stormed through security to attack the two fishermen accused of the rape and killing of the 21-year-old student.

 

http://tinyurl.com/9qrrq

[Flashermac]

Photo of the 24 year old killer on the front page of some of today's Thai language papers. A short dumpy moronic looking piece of dung ...

[Guest]

''Riots halt murder inquiry

 

Jan 10 2006

 

By David James And Gerry Holt, South Wales Echo

 

 

A horde of angry Thais brandishing wooden clubs broke up a police re-enactment of the murder of Katherine Horton.

 

Hundreds of islanders stormed through security to attack the two fishermen accused of the rape and killing of the 21-year-old student.

 

http://tinyurl.com/9qrrq''

 

 

 

Fantastic. I hope the little fuckers now appreciate that its not just fellangs that take issue with this, but most, if not all Thai's. Shame they didnt get to them.

 

Cunts.

 

Hope they endure the worst x amount of years possible in Bang Kwangs most savage, isolated 'Khun Deo' room.

[sayjann]

saw some footage of the re-enactment on the TV Tonight(not sure which Media Outlet filmed it)and after the crowd forced a postponment the 2 accused looked so scared.

let's hope that they realise how their victim must have felt.......

 

but will they get the Death Penalty?.

 

after the Murders of 2 Brit Tourists by a Policeman and he only got Life do we think these 2(if Guilty)will pay for it with their lives?.

if the reports i read from Members are true then it seems the 2 are Guilty and deserve the chop.

to me if they are Guilty of a henious crime then they should forfeit their lives,but we know the International Community will cause an outcry and say it is sadistic to apply Capital Punishment.

the Liberals have no thought for the victims Family and i find that very sad.

i wonder what would happen if it happened to one of their Family............"