THAILAND: Police release video of two men suspected to be involved in the killing of an Australian tourist inThailand

Record ID: 860290

  • Title: THAILAND: Police release video of two men suspected to be involved in the killing of an Australian tourist inThailand
  • Date: 23rd June 2012
  • Summary: PHUKET, THAILAND (JUNE 22, 2012) (REUTERS) HOSPITAL OFFICIAL STANDING NEXT TO BODY VARIOUS OF OFFICIALS MOVING BODY TO VAN VAN LEAVING
  • Embargoed: 8th July 2012 13:00
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  • Location: Thailand
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  • Country: Thailand
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  • Story Text: Thai police released video on Friday (June 22) of the two suspects in the murder of Australian tourist Michelle Elizabeth Smith.
    Closed circuit television on a Phuket street showed the two Thai suspects, aged between 20 and 25, on motorcycle twenty minutes before the murder.
    Police said they are striving to identify and track down the two suspects.
    "The driver is smaller than the person on the back [of the motorcycle]. The person on the back is around 180 centimetres high. Right now we're going through all of the similar other robbery cases in Phuket," said police Major-General Chanasit Watthanawarangkul.
    Police have offered a reward of 100,000 Thai baht ($3,145 US dollars) leading to the arrest of the suspects.
    Thai authorities returned the body to Australia on Friday.
    Smith, a 60-year-old Australian tourist, was stabbed to death by two Thai men on Wednesday (June 20) as they attempted to snatch her bag.
    She was stabbed in the chest as she tried to resist the men and was pronounced dead at the scene.
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