Tourist arrested for rape
published : 12 Oct 2023 at 08:08
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Wassayos Ngamkham
Police have arrested a Qatari man for allegedly raping an 18-year-old male employee of a fast-food shop at a hospital in Watthana district last week.
Police said the tourist, aged 23, was arrested at the hospital (name withheld) on Tuesday. He denied the charge.
The arrest followed a complaint by a teenage employee of a fast-food shop at the hospital.
The 18-year-old told police the suspect had come to the fast-food shop and asked for directions to a toilet at about 12.30am on Oct 6. He led the man to the nearby toilet.
Once there, the man allegedly forced him to go inside the toilet with him, locked the door and raped him.
Lumpini police checked security camera recordings, saw and identified the suspect. They obtained an arrest warrant from the Bangkok South Criminal Court.
They arrested the man when he returned to the hospital on Tuesday. Police said the suspect came back because he wanted to see the complainant again.
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Vocabulary
- charge : an official statement accusing someone of committing a crime - ข้อกล่าวหา
- complainant: a person who makes a formal complaint in a court of law - ผู้ร้อง(ทุกข์),โจทก์,ผู้ฟ้องร้อง
- complaint: when someone says that something is wrong or not satisfactory - การร้องเรียน
- denied (verb): said that something is not true or did not happen - ปฏิเสธ
- force (verb): to make someone do something that they don't want to do - บังคับ
- rape: the crime of forcefully having sex with someone against their wish - การข่มขืน
- rape: to commit the crime of forcefully having sex with someone against their wish - ข่มขืน
- suspect: a person who is thought to have committed a crime - ผู้ต้องสงสัย
- warrant (noun): a legal document that is signed by a judge and gives the police authority to do something - หมาย
- withheld (verb): to deliberately not give something to someone - ไม่เปิดเผย, ไม่อนุญาต, ระงับ, ถอนกลับ
