Thread: British student who disappeared after a beach party on a Cambodian island

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

that it helps to distract them from the unpalatable truth their lives are utterly meaningless and devoid of any prospects that might enrich their experience before they die in squalor.

Projecting too much?

Originally Posted by Wally Dorian Raffles

Yabba is the scourge of society in the impoverished countries, especially.

Yeah...I came to Asia in 1987 and heroin seemed to be a scourge, and the worst. But yabba is far worse and far more destructive

Originally Posted by Latindancer

I agree, Wally.

And Yabba is a truly destructive drug, of people and societies.

Somebody told me a story about a Japanese girl, 14 or 15 years old, who used the drug for a week. She jumped off her balcony and killed herself to stop the voices. I had a taxi driver in BKK masturbating as he drove me home - he was manic and flippant and became aggressive when I told him to stop so I could get out. He was high on yabba without doubt. Just a couple of examples, but you can bet your life that many of the stories you read of Thais doing crazy things are related to the `crazy drug` as it was dubbed in the media in LOS as.

Latest update

Cambodian officials looking for a British woman missing on Koh Rong island are focusing their search on fishing boats and have interviewed six men about her disappearance.

Ben Warner, a leader of the volunteer search team, said: “We’re running out of areas where we can look on land, so we’re trying to look at ways that she could have got off the island.

The irony of Thai fishermen raping and killing a westerner in Cambodia would certainly be a twist of fate.

Originally Posted by Backspin

Cambodian officials looking for a British woman missing on Koh Rong island are focusing their search on fishing boats and have interviewed six men about her disappearance.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

The irony of Thai fishermen raping and killing a westerner in Cambodia would certainly be a twist of fate.

Where is Thailand mentioned? Cambodia, read Cambodia....

^ Referencing the Kha Tao murders.

The Burmese boys taking the rap for the Thais.

Jungle island’s dark past surfaces as search for missing backpacker continues

A spate of violent and deadly attacks on tourists has seen this island paradise dubbed the “new Koh Tao” as another backpacker vanishes.

A remote island paradise where a British backpacker mysteriously disappeared last week has a dark and deadly history.

Since 2013, the jungle-covered island of Koh Rong in Cambodia has seen a spate of horror attacks on tourists, including at least one murder. Others have been violently robbed and assaulted or found dead in suspicious or bizarre circumstances.

Amelia Bambridge, 21, vanished at a rave party on the jungle covered isle of Koh Rong in Cambodia last Wednesday.

Authorities initially suspected she drowned after going for a late night swim on Police Beach, where the rave was staged, in the early hours of Thursday morning.

But Ms Bambridge’s father Phil is convinced she has been kidnapped and “taken into the woods”. The Vietnam-based teacher arrived on Koh Rong at the weekend to look for his daughter.


https://www.news.com.au/travel/trave...eace52f2b8883c

Originally Posted by Mendip

Jungle island’s dark past surfaces as search for missing backpacker continues

A spate of violent and deadly attacks on tourists has seen this island paradise dubbed the “new Koh Tao” as another backpacker vanishes.

A remote island paradise where a British backpacker mysteriously disappeared last week has a dark and deadly history.

Since 2013, the jungle-covered island of Koh Rong in Cambodia has seen a spate of horror attacks on tourists, including at least one murder. Others have been violently robbed and assaulted or found dead in suspicious or bizarre circumstances.

Amelia Bambridge, 21, vanished at a rave party on the jungle covered isle of Koh Rong in Cambodia last Wednesday.

Authorities initially suspected she drowned after going for a late night swim on Police Beach, where the rave was staged, in the early hours of Thursday morning.

But Ms Bambridge’s father Phil is convinced she has been kidnapped and “taken into the woods”. The Vietnam-based teacher arrived on Koh Rong at the weekend to look for his daughter.


https://www.news.com.au/travel/trave...eace52f2b8883c

So there is some history. This is why women traveling by thyself is not really tenable.

Sure 1000's get away with it. But the danger is there

Originally Posted by Mendip

Since 2013, the jungle-covered island of Koh Rong in Cambodia has seen a spate of horror attacks on tourists, including at least one murder. Others have been violently robbed and assaulted or found dead in suspicious or bizarre circumstances

Wow, allegedly, a tourist island in Asian country, has had one murder in six years.

Look around you, wherever you are living, what's you annual murder number or other suspicious or bizarre deaths?

Originally Posted by Backspin

women traveling by thyself is not really tenable.

Yeah verily they shalt be smote, as 'tis written in the book of drummond.

You don't often hear about men being raped and murdered by women, do you?

Of course solo women travellers are more vulnerable to this sort of thing than their male counterparts, and you'd have to be an idiot to try and argue otherwise.

I guess you won't really go for the forthcoming poll 'Is it more comfortable to eat christmas dinner balancing on your head?', then.

As a girl who has travelled solo, both in my home country of PI and in SE Asia, yes I agree that there are more dangers/risks as a solo female traveller. I am not a long term backpacker travelling on a gap year, but I do consider myself as a backpacker (short term) and budget traveller. Whenever I travelled by myself, I always researched about the place. That's how I chanced upon TD - I was researching about an upcoming trip which included a Thai-Cambo border crossing.

During the travel proper, I don't stay out too late, nor drink too much, etc. Mostly sensible stuff. When I hired a motorbike driver to tour me around the area, I informed the resort staff of my plans and gave my contact number, as well as the name & number of my driver. I may have been a bit paranoid at that time (and I didn't trust the bike driver 100%), so I thought better safe than sorry.

As such, I'm still well, alive and safe. There have been times when I felt a bit uncomfortable due to men's stares, but maybe that was just me (or maybe they were really staring at me or my legs, as I wore shorts then).

Fortunately, I haven't been harassed, but have heard a personal account of another solo female traveller who had been. She was my seat mate on the bus from Cambodia to Vietnam and we had lots to talk about during the 7-hour journey. She was a (white) nurse from Canada and was harassed by a tuktuk driver in Cambodia. Fortunately, she was able to get safely out of that sticky situation. So yes, harassment does happen to female travellers - more often than is reported in the news.

There was a story before of a Chinese-Australian girl who cut her hair and pretended to be a boy as she travelled solo to the less touristy (and more dangerous) parts of the world.

Sorry for the long post - just expressing my opinion and travel experience in a largely male dominated forum.

Originally Posted by katie23

Sorry for the long post - just expressing my opinion and travel experience in a largely male dominated forum.

No need to apologize, an interesting and welcome perspective.

Shows how shitty the world is though that the focus is always on what women need to do in order to stay safe rather than on men simply not harassing / raping / murdering them. Would've loved to have had a daughter on one hand but on the other kinda glad I didn't given all the scumbags out there.

I’m with Katie. I backpacked alone a year and a half around Asia. Absolutely loved it. Only once got into a dodgy situation on a dark street at night. (Luckily the man who approached me was smaller so I knocked him on his arse while screaming at him like a mad woman.) Didn’t do drugs or party with strangers. Made friends with people who are my best friends today. Married a man I met while backpacking.

I wouldn't want my daughters travelling solo around Asia or anywhere tbh.

I met a broken girl on Sukhumvit who had been raped in Sri Lanka after falling out with her boyfriend.

Some evil fuckers out there

Sad outcome, breaking news just now.

However could the body get 30 miles offshore? Usually they go the other way and get washed up on land.


Body of backpacker, 21, missing in Cambodia found 30 miles out to sea

Amelia was last seen on the Cambodian island of Koh Rong a week ago at a party at the popular tourist hotspot.

The body of missing British backpacker Amelia Bambridge has been found in Cambodia, authorities have confirmed.

Emergency services have been scouring the island of Koh Rong after the 21-year-old disappeared more than a week ago.

The body was reportedly found in the sea near the Thai-Cambodian border more than 30 miles from where she vanished.

It has been brought to shore where a post-mortem will be carried out, according to local media.

Her family have travelled to the area to help the emergency services with the search.


https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-new...found-20763524

That's a long way for a rip current to take someone...

Will wait for the post mortem...

The tide was out when she allegedly bathed at 0300 hrs on the morning of her disappearance.

Extraordinary that she would have drifted unconscious 30 miles up the coast if she had decided to take a swim and then gotten into difficulties. Abduction by fishermen and then thrown overboard is still a more likely option.

Originally Posted by Troy

That's a long way for a rip current to take someone...

Will wait for the post mortem...

In a week?

Abduction by fishermen and then thrown overboard is still a more likely option.

Nice of them to put her clothes back on first, eh?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

In a week?




Nice of them to put her clothes back on first, eh?

That's a detail we dont have is it ?

A rape/murder would be a crime of impulse and or drug related. So its highly unlikely that the body was moved and placed into the water as a coverup

Strange how she drifted out there. There could be some current and conditions that explain it. Most likely they will have to investigate that to determine if its possible for something to drift that direction.

Anyway RIP and prayers for the family. Imagine being there and hearing the call. 'Hey, found something over here'

Originally Posted by Backspin

That's a detail we dont have is it ?

It might be a detail you don't have. That can be fixed.

“Based on the identity given to us, the tattoo on her body and the clothes she was last seen in, we believe it is her,” said Lieutenant General Tea Sokha, deputy commander of Cambodia’s navy. He said authorities had been tipped off about the body’s location by fishermen who saw it.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a9178866.html

Most likely they will have to investigate that to determine if its possible for something to drift that direction.

If the cause of death is simply drowning and there is no sign of any violence, they won't bother. Why would they?

I feel for the poor family, but at least they have closure. Imagine if she had never been found?

Body of British backpacker Amelia Bambridge found at sea in Cambodia, police say

The body of British backpacker Amelia Bambridge has been found at sea more than 30 miles from where she disappeared, Cambodian police said.
The 21-year-old Amelia Bambridge went missing after a beach party in Cambodia.
Ms Bambridge, from Worthing, West Sussex, was last seen by friends at around 3am last Thursday morning at a beach party on the island of Koh Rong.
Police, scuba divers, government officials and volunteers joined the search, and on Sunday were also using a drone to scour the dense jungle and coastline.
After her family flew out to join the search on the weekend, it ended in tragedy for them on Thursday morning when local police announced they had found a body.

A large search operation is underway on the island of Koh Rong CREDIT: VIRAL PRESS

Ms Bambridge was on a gap year, and had been staying at the Nest Beach Club, 40 minutes from the beach where she was last seen.
Her mother, Linda Bambridge, was contacted by the manager of the hostel after she failed to check out. Her purple rucksack containing her purse, phone and bank cards were found on a nearby beach.
The backpacker was officially reported missing, and her mother and other relatives travelled to Cambodia to join locals in the search on Sunday.
Linda Bambridge told The Argus newspaper in Sussex it was “very out of character” for her daughter to go missing, adding that she was “normally so organised”.

"There doesn't seem to be any urgency,” she said. “Her friend is still there as they were due to leave the island today, but she hasn't left because Amelia is missing."
Reacting to Thursday morning's news, Ms Bambridge's local Conservative MP Tim Loughton said: "Devastated to hear the terribly sad news about Amelia Bambridge this morning - the thoughts and prayers of everyone in Worthing are with her family and friends."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/31/body-british-backpacker-amelia-bambridge-found-sea-cambodia/

Originally Posted by katie23

as well as the name & number of my driver.

Excellent tip.