Autopsy underway on Pattaya transwoman’s mutilated body

Autopsy underway on Pattaya transwoman’s mutilated body

Police question a Chinese murder suspect at Pattaya station in Thailand's Chon Buri province on Monday. Chaiyot Pupattanapong
A Chinese murder suspect is being interrogated on Monday at Pattaya stop in Chon Buri state of Thailand. Chaiyot Pupattanapong

PATTAYA: While her relatives and friends in Pattaya were concerned about negative remarks about the victim, investigative authorities have not yet thoroughly examined the body of a transwoman who was allegedly killed by a Chinese customer. Some organs are said to be missing.

According to police sources, Pattaya authorities transported Woranan Pannacha, 25, to Police General Hospital in Bangkok to perform an examination to determine the cause of her dying and find DNA samples because it was claimed that she had fought the Taiwanese man before being strangled.

Additionally, police wanted forensic investigators to determine whether a cut in her stomach had been made prior to or after the transwoman’s death.

In the meantime, Pattaya officers requested a court order to keep Fu Tongyung, 42, in custody while their research is being looked into.

The Taiwanese person was detained on Saturday at the Suvarnabhumi airport. He claimed to have strangled Woranan last Friday in Pattaya after she refused to have intercourse with him despite paying for it and that he had strangled her in his occupied space.

The frequent guest from Kunming even claimed to have wanted to “play” with the body by cutting it from the neck down to the genitalia.

He reportedly removed the body’s silicone implants and spirit.

Pattaya authorities said they first did not recognize the victim’s left lungs, but the suspect denied having removed a lung. The neighborhood police hoped that Bangkok’s criminal police would be able to explain the situation.

On Monday, Pattaya police questioned victim’s 61-year-old parents, Uan Pannacha. The father claimed that the loss and some of the bad online comments about his son’s death had devastated his family in the northern province of Nong Khai.

On Sunday evening, a protest by trans people in Pattaya on a beachfront road prompted by these comments. A protest leader claimed that they were looking for people who might also be in Pattaya as the source of negative feedback.

A relative holds the portrait of the victim at the guesthouse where the transwoman was murdered. Chaiyot Pupattanapong

At the hotel where the transwoman was killed, a comparative holds a photograph of the sufferer. Chaiyot Pupattanapong