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Amphon Kongsong

Age 28

18 Aug 2016
Pattaya, Chon Buri (Thailand)
Strangled

TDoR list ref: tgeu/18-Aug-2016/Amphol Kongsong

Amphon Kongsong
Amphon Kongsong [photo: www.lgbtqnation.com]

Amphon was strangled and her body hidden under a hotel room mattress by her killers.

CHON BURI — Two teenage boys, one 17 and the other 14, were arrested on Sunday on charges of murdering a transgender woman in a Pattaya hotel and stuffing the body inside a bed frame.

Police apprehended the teens, both from Nakhon Ratchasima, at a bus terminal in Muang Chon Buri district around noon and took them for questioning at Muang Pattaya police station.

The body of Amphon Kongsong was found in a room of a five-storey hotel on Soi Buakhao in tambon Nong Phrue of Bang Lamung district on Saturday morning. The hotel alerted police after a maid noticed blood oozing out from underneath the bed accompanied by a foul stench.

Police officers lifted up the mattress and found Amphon’s body underneath. Two guests had left the room earlier that morning but apparently were unaware that there was a dead body under their bed.

TvT partner organisation APTN & Bangkok Post, 21.08.2016

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/08/body-trans-woman-hidden-bed-couple-sleeping/

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/08/23/trans-womans-body-found-in-bed-where-tourists-slept/

https://metro.co.uk/2016/08/23/tourists-slept-on-bed-where-killers-had-hidden-transgender-womans-body-6084904/

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37152333

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1067625/teens-charged-over-pattaya-body-under-bed-murder

Report added: 18 Sep 2018. Last updated: 13 Jan 2021

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