Phuket Rapist's Reign of Terror Ends

[StrontiumDog]

http://phuketwan.com/tourism/phuket-...or-ends-13904/


Confessed multiple rapist Parkbhum Maneerat with police tonight
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Phuket Rapist's Reign of Terror Ends

By Chutima Sidasathian and Sert Tongdee
Saturday, April 2, 2011

A MAN who posed as a Phuket policeman and allegedly abducted and raped as many as 13 women attracted a crowd of about 200 Nepalese to Kathu Police Station in Patong tonight after his arrest.

Parkbhum Maneerat, 29, a married floor polish salesman with two young children who lives in Phuket City, held each of the women captive in turn and raped them, officers said.

His year-long reign of terror among Phuket's Nepalese community ended when the latest of his victims went to police in Patong.

Officers arrested the man at his Phuket City home this evening and confiscated a Toyota Vigo in which they found a sword.

The latest victim escaped the man by hiding in a 7-Eleven store opposite Patong Hospital yesterday about 4.30pm. Khun Parkbhum followed her into the store, and the store security camera proved crucial to identifying him today.

Five of the man's victims went to Patong police tonight to make statements accusing Khun Parkbhum of rape and abduction.

Patong Police Superintendent Colonel Arayapan Pukbuakao said police would compile the complete case against Khun Parkbhum and that the likelihood was that he would serve a long period for each count.

The crowd outside the police station wai-ed the police officers for bringing the reign of terror to an end. President of the Thai-Nepalese Association of Phuket, Phanupong Limbuprasertkul, 42, said the community was grateful to have the man finally arrested.

Khun Parkbhum's method, posing as a police officer, was to threaten the women with exposure or that he would end their permission to stay in Thailand if they did not accompany him.

The latest victim told police that she had been raped about 15 times after being abducted and taken to Krabi on Thursday. Khun Parkbhum confessed after being arrested.

[Kurgen]

No doubt gonna be swept under the carpet very soon.

[pet coon]

The latest was abducted on Thursday and the perpetrator was arrested yesterday and he raped her 15 times. He must be part rabbit. Its too bad he cannot be placed in a room with all the victims, for the length of time they need to show him the error of his ways.

[Sabai Prai]

No doubt gonna be swept under the carpet very soon.

Why do you think that?

[Davis Knowlton]

^I was wondering the same thing.

[Kurgen]

No doubt gonna be swept under the carpet very soon.

Why do you think that?

https://teakdoor.com/thailand-and-asi...d-me-says.html (Phuket Taxi Driver Raped Me, Says Swedish Tourist)

I rest my case ^^^

[brouhaha]

No way. He's cooked.

[StrontiumDog]

Phuket NEWS: Serial rapist confesses to Phuket Police

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Serial rapist confesses to Phuket Police


Mr Phakphoom, in handcuffs, is led from Patong Police Station after this morning's press conference.


The rapist's most recent victim, aged 25, speaks with Maj Gen Pekad at Patong Police Station this morning.

PHUKET: A serial rapist who preyed on young female members of the Phuket ethnic Nepali community is behind bars tonight after confessing to multiple charges of sexual assault, robbery and impersonating a policeman.

The accused, 30-year-old Phakpoom Maneerat, was presented to the media at a press conference at Patong Police Station at 10:30am.

The gravity of the case was evidenced by the fact that the gathering was presided over by Phuket Provincial Police Superintendent Pekat Thantipong.

For our previous story about Mr Phakphoom’s arrest in Phuket Town at noon yesterday, click here.

At the press conference, Mr Phakphoom admitted to abducting and raping six ethnic Nepalese women working in Patong, but police fear the number of victims may have been higher. They have encouraged other victims to contact them and file charges.

Mr Phakphoom confessed to impersonating a police officer to abduct the women, all employed in the tourist-oriented retail sales industry in Patong.

Some were taken to locations in Krabi and Nakhon Sri Thammarat, where they were confined and raped repeatedly over a period of days. Many also had valuables stolen, police said.

Mr Phakphoom was an unemployed resident of Phuket Town, police said.

Married with two children, his wife operated an unspecified private business in Phuket Town, they said.

Some 100 members of the local Nepali community turned up for this morning’s press conference, about the half number who appeared at Patong Police Station last night after the arrest was announced.

Led by Thai-Nepalese club president Phanuphong Limbuprasertkup, the Nepalese offered bouquets of flowers to arresting officers and their superiors to thank them for the arrest.

Also at the station was the rapist’s latest victim, a 25-year-old woman who told police she was walking with friends at about 10:30am on March 28 along Phang Muang Sai Kor Road, behind the Jungceylon shopping complex, when a Toyota Vigo pickup cut them off.

The accused emerged from the vehicle, asking all in the group to produce identification papers, she said.

When she was unable to do so, he ordered her into the vehicle and then took her to an unspecified location in Krabi, where she was held in captivity and raped repeatedly until she was returned to Patong by the accused on April 1.

Head held low throughout the press conference, Mr Phakphoom admitted he used the same modus operandi in each case, identifying himself as an officer of the law to abduct and then rape and rob his victims.

They were always approached in the same area, near Jungceylon or the nearby JJ Plaza, he confessed.

He declined to reply to questioning from Maj Gen Pekad as to why he preyed solely on ethnic Nepali women, when woman of so many other ethnicities, races and nationalities could be found in Patong.

He simply confirmed that all of the victims were young, Nepali woman.

Police would investigate further to try to find other victims and confirm that Mr Phakphoom acted alone, Maj Gen Pekad said.

Cases of Thai people posing as government officers to extort migrant workers from Burma and lands controlled by the Burmese junta have been numerous in Phuket in recent years.

Most Burmese workers in Phuket work in the low-pay construction, fishing and rubber tapping industries.

Ethnic Nepalese are well established in west-coast tourism destinations, where they usually work in the tourism-based retail sales industry – even though such work is legally restricted to Thais.

Although their sales tactics are a common source of complaint to the provincial office, they are seldom implicated in serious crimes on the island.

[Warwick]

10,000 Baht fine for multiple rapes and fifteen years in prison for impersonating a police officer.

[Poo and Pee]

just an idea, but maybe they should stop vendors selling fake police uniforms at the markets?

[Greyman]

Does anyone else find it inappropriate that the Police Officers, in the first photo, have smiles on their faces?
Would they smile so much if their daughters were victims of this animal?

[BobR]

Does anyone else find it inappropriate that the Police Officers, in the first photo, have smiles on their faces?
Would they smile so much if their daughters were victims of this animal?

Sorry but no, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and say they're smiling because they are enjoying locking up a lowlife who truly deserves it.

"It looks like you were correct about this one, Kurgen. He has already been released from prison. "

Unbelievable, I'm the most liberal turd in the World and still cannot see granting bail to an animal who has been identified by multiple victims.

[Kurgen]

They have probably just worked out what their cut of the hush money is.

[English Noodles]

No doubt gonna be swept under the carpet very soon.

It looks like you were correct about this one, Kurgen. He has already been released from prison.

[k1klass]

No doubt gonna be swept under the carpet very soon.

It looks like you were correct about this one, Kurgen. He has already been released from prison.

oh dear

[Wally Dorian Raffles]

This really is an outrage.

I really hope the phuket nepalise community make an uproar about this, but we all know they don't really have much of a voice - moslty because many of them work illegally.

you really have to wonder just what it is going to take before control of phuket is taken away from the criminals who run it now..

[Chairman Mao]

Was freed in June.

[The Bold Rodney]

Would they smile so much if their daughters were victims of this animal?

He must be part rabbit.

These sort of comments are degrading to rabbits!

[Looper]

This is a fokin disgrace and scary. Thailand is truly foked in some respects. I thought this punter confessed - how the f*&% can he just walk. Makes me feel bad about enjoying going there for a holiday.

I have a flipper girl in Phuket that I am trying to encourage to apply for a work visa for Aussie (new proposed scheme where tourist industry jobs can be filled by overseas) - currently she is shit scared of getting taken in by the polis as she works ilegally as a receptionist (seems there are a few flippers doing this on Phuket as their english is much better than the local girls). If some shark tried to blackmail her she would cave.