June 28, 2026 — 7:50pm
Jomtien, Thailand: The Australian accused of murdering a Thai teenager and stuffing her body into a suitcase was prone to “wanting his own way” and late-night walks on the beach when he couldn’t sleep, people who knew him say.
One of the most striking things about Simon Peter Carman, one woman told this masthead, was how “everything about him was slowly – he talked slow, he walked slow”.
She said he had been living at the Rimhad Jomtien, a 20-minute drive south of the busy metropolis of Pattaya, for about eight months.
Though she would hear his stories about getting angry with drunk people, she never knew him to be particularly aggressive. “Drunk people can be very rude, so that [reaction] is just normal,” she said. “When I heard the news, I couldn’t believe it.”
