「失踪白人女性症候群」 ボロボロ
「失踪白人女性症候群」
http://iscariot.cocolog-nifty.com/kuantan/2005/11/post_bdc7.html
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「白人女性失踪」報道の狂騒
「タイの地元新聞を読む」より
http://homepage3.nifty.com/jean/Papers/index.html
一昨日付のBangkok Post紙等で大きく報じられていた、ブラジル人女性モデルがパンガン島からサムイ島経由でバンコクに向かう途中で立ち寄ったスラーッターニー県の県都内で失踪し、一緒にいた友人等の証言からタイ人男性2人に誘拐され可能性が取りざたされていた事件ですが、昨日までに件の女性が発見され、女性自らの意思で男性達について行き、 内の1人の男性との間で合意の上で性的な関係が結ばれていた事が明らかになっているようです。
とりあえず、今回の失踪騒動に事件性が無かったことから地元の観光当局側は、サムイ島で発生したイギリス人女性旅行者殺人事件によって悪化している観光イメージを更に悪化させることにならず胸をなで下ろしているようですが、逆にタイ人一般にとっては、パンガン島に行くような外国人に対するイメージ悪化に繋がる結果になったかもしれません。（大衆紙的結末だったせいか、テレビ報道は興味半分に事の次第について必要以上に事細かに報じています。)
一方、チットチャイ副首相は昨日、外国人旅行者に対する安全確保体制に依然不十分な部分があるとして、関係当局と共同で体制の立て直しに取り組む方針を明らかにしていました。
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CRIME TOURISTS IN TROUBLE
Police searching for missing Brazilian model
Surat Thani _ Police are searching for a Brazilian model who went missing last night on her way from Koh Phangan to Bangkok. The search was launched one day after the body of a British tourist was found floating off Koh Samui, also in Surat Thani.
Kanokwan Konsap, 35, has reported her friend, Talipa Rosini, 25, as missing.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/050106_News/05Jan2006_news02.php
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（別の事件）
月曜日、サムイ島でイギリス白人女性（ウェールズ出身）が遺体で発見される。
DNA tests on Thai murder suspects
 Katherine Horton was found dead on 2 January |
A number of men are being tested for DNA matches following the murder of a student on a beach in Thailand, police have said
Miss Horton's friend Ruth Adams with whom she travelled to Thailand, was also there.
"Katherine came to Thailand to dance on a beach, to ride an elephant, to have a vacation before her finals at university," he said.
"She was full of confidence and felt immune to the dangers of this world as we have all felt when we were young adults.
"Tragically her faith in her fellow man let her down and she has been taken from us forever."
He said he now wished to return his daughter's body to her home with dignity and privacy.
Meanwhile, Thai detectives have set up an incident room at the beach.
Police said she had been attacked with a blunt instrument and that they believed she had been raped.
Samui Police Lieutenant Colonel Thanongsak Aksornsom said: "The suspect is probably a Thai national and we believe he is still on the island."
Her body was discovered in the sea early the next day.
The results of a post-mortem examination revealed that her clothing was dishevelled and that she had suffered bruising as well as head and other internal injuries.
Thai authorities said a DNA sample has been recovered from her body but the task in finding the killer will be extremely difficult.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/4586582.stm
Family's grief on holiday island
Ian Horton has made the most difficult journey any parent could face.
He arrived here in the Thailand resort of Koh Samui to visit the beach where his 21-year-old daughter Katherine was murdered on Monday.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/4585238.stm
Student's 'passion for life'
The family of Katherine Horton - a 21-year-old backpacker found dead on a beach in Thailand - have spoken of "her warmth and her vivacity".
Slain Welsh tourist was raped; locals prime suspects
Police have concluded that the 21-year-old Welsh woman found dead on Koh Samui this week was raped, as sperm was found in her body, and are waiting for a DNA comparison with 10 suspects. Pol Maj-Gen Assawin Khwanmuang, deputy commissioner of the Central Investigation Bureau, said Katherine Horton had been raped and killed. Sperm was found in semen in her vagina.
An initial report, released on Thursday by the Forensic Medicine Institute, indicated the victim had not been raped.
Police say they know the location and time of the crime as they have questioned eight foreign witnesses and 10 Thais.
''Evidence and witnesses point to about 10 Thai suspects. They have been questioned and have left their blood samples,'' he said.
DNA in the blood samples will be compared to the sperm. Any of the suspects found to have sperm with matching DNA will be arrested, he said.
http://www.bangkokpost.net/News/07Jan2006_news03.php
Fishermen admit Thailand murder
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Two men have pleaded guilty to raping and murdering tourist Katherine Horton in a court in Thailand.
The trial of the fisherman Bualoi Posit, 23, and Wichai Somkhaoyai, 24,, who were arrested on Monday, is now due to start on Friday at 0900 local time.
The body of Miss Horton, 21, from Cardiff, was found in the sea off the island of Koh Samui on 2 January.
A post-mortem examination suggested she was raped and beaten before being left in the water to drown.
The preliminary hearing took place in the Surat Thani on Thursday, the same day an inquest into Miss Horton's death was opened and adjourned in Cardiff.
The men were reported to have nodded affirmatively when asked by a judge whether they were guilty of the charges - rape and premeditated murder.
 The suspects appeared in court on Wednesday |
Thai police said they confessed shortly after they were arrested off the coast of Koh Samui on Monday. Officers then confirmed that DNA evidence linked them to the murder of Miss Horton on the evening of New Year's Day.
Miss Horton had travelled to Thailand with a university friend for a two-week holiday.
She had been on the beach with a group of friends on 1 January, close to the bungalows they had rented, when she is said to have wandered away to speak to her mother on her mobile phone.
Her body was discovered some 12 hours later by a water biker in the sea off Lamai beach.
 Miss Horton was staying with a friend in bungalows on Lamai beach |
South Wales Police said Miss Horton's funeral will take place next Tuesday afternoon at St Isan's Church, in Llanishen, Cardiff followed by private cremation.
Meanwhile. a service of prayer for Miss Horton was taking place on Thursday in the Palmer Building at Reading University where she was about to embark on her final year as a psychology undergraduate.
A book of condolence was available for signing at the lunchtime service where prayers were being led by Catholic chaplain Terry Burke and Anglican chaplain Mark Laynesmith.
Beforehand, Rev Laynesmith said it would be an informal service that would "make a space" for people who might not know how to express their feelings.
Dave Lewis, president of Reading University student union, said students and staff were "deeply shocked and saddened".
He told BBC Wales: "At the moment our thoughts, our feelings really go out to her friends, her family and the people who met her - she'll be deeply missed.
"Katherine was a pleasure to be around. She loved doing her course, she loved being a student."
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