A infamous serial rapist with a longstanding felony history has been apprehended by police in Chon Buri.
Police Major General Teeradej Thumsutee, investigation chief at the Metropolitan Police Bureau, knowledgeable the press that a man often recognized as Wattana Srikhaney, also recognisable beneath the alias Tum Chonburi, was taken into custody following his assault on a woman in the Ko Chan district of the province on May 14.
Wattana, who had been using the Omi app to identify and track his victims, tied himself to a string of similar rape cases. In a disturbing modus operandi, he would rob his victims post-assault. Astonishing disclosed a feminine who was sexually violated at a rice field’s edge and left there naked. Other cases concerned victims who weren’t only raped but in addition robbed of their money, gold chains, smartphones, and different invaluable objects.
The arrested individual’s legal history extends a span ranging from 2009 to the current day. He has frequented the jail on a quantity of events through the years, increase an imposing legal record. On January 29, 2009, he was accused of raping a woman within the Phanat Nikhom district inside Chon Buri. A repeat offence surfaced two years later within the similar district.
There have been intermittent situations of his arrest for theft in the identical district again in February 2009. In June 2017, he was charged with drug-related misconduct within the Si Racha district inside Chon Buri. This charge was replicated the next month within the Khlong Luang district of Pathum Thani.
Progressing to April of the present 12 months, Wattana perpetrated both rape and theft inside Bangkok’s Lat Krabang district, particularly within the Chorakhe Noi space. Subsequently, in May, he assaulted another sufferer in the Ko Chan district of Chon Buri, marking the placement of his eventual arrest. Police declared that the suspect acted under the ruse of portraying himself as a ‘nice guy’ in his online approaches.
By offering to accompany his targets on dates, he would efficiently lure victims into his entice before carrying out the deliberate criminal actions..