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BANGKOK (The Nation Thailand/ANN): Police in the Thai capital have obtained an arrest warrant for a Chinese tourist after he was seen leaving a hotel room where a freelance sex worker was found dead under suspicious circumstances, reportedly from a drug overdose.
Police Major-General Noppasil Poonsawat, who is the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, identified the Chinese tourist as Mr Duoying.
Maj-Gen Noppasil said that police obtained the arrest warrant from the Criminal Court on Feb 16 after the sex worker’s mother filed a complaint against the tourist and a Thai agent at the Chokchai Police Station earlier the same day.
He said the Immigration Bureau has been alerted to prevent the Chinese tourist from leaving the country.
The tourist faces a charge of causing death by negligence.
Maj-Gen Noppasil explained that the Chokchai Police Station was alerted by staff at a hotel in the Bang Kapi area on Feb 10 that a woman, identified as Ms Irada, was found dead and half-naked on the bed in a room. She was unclothed from the waist up.
Police reviewed the hotel’s security camera footage and found that Mr Duoying checked into the room at 11.16pm on Feb 9. The woman entered the room at 2.51am on Feb 10. The Chinese tourist was seen leaving at 6.16am the same morning and did not return.
A popular Facebook page, Isor Khayi Khao, posted on Feb 15 that an agent had advertised in a Line group for freelance sex workers, seeking an entertainer under the code NV to serve a Chinese tourist. The post specified that the worker must also take drugs to “get high” with the client.
The page reported that Ms Irada accepted the job but asked if she could refuse the drug use. However, the agent insisted it was mandatory and advised her to take only a small amount.
The code NV is known to stand for “entertainment VIP”, a term understood among freelance entertainment and sex workers to mean that they must sleep with customers after serving them alcohol or entertaining them. - THE NATION THAILAND/ASIA NEWS NETWORK
