Thai police charge Australian national with murder after 17-year-old girl’s body is discovered in a suitcase near a Pattaya railway track, raising global concern.

A man from Ballarat is in custody after the body of a teenage girl was found in a suitcase in Thailand.

The 46-year-old was stopped at about 9.30pm on Friday while preparing to board a Jetstar flight to Perth, according to the Nation Thailand