The family of a 17-year-old Thai girl whose body was found in a suitcase in a resort city are "devastated", her stepmother said Monday, as authorities charged an Australian man for her murder.
The family of a 17-year-old Thai girl whose body was found in a suitcase in a resort city is "devastated", her stepmother said Monday, as authorities charged an Australian man for her murder.
"I never imagined she would be gone this quickly," Orradee Bussarakham told AFP by phone. "We didn't get to say goodbye."
Orradee and the girl's father, Thongchai Donhomla, were in Bangkok on Monday to collect the body, which was found near a railway track in the seaside resort city of Pattaya early on Saturday.
"Like her dad, I'm devastated. Although I'm her stepmother, I feel like I just lost a child of my own," Orradee said.
