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Prostitute nabbed for drugging,robbing British tourist, but money gone
Jidapa Mul-udd (right) was
caught at the Cambodian border in Chantaburi.
Boonlua Chatree
A British man drugged and robbed by a Beach Road prostitute
won’t be getting his 60,000 baht back after police discovered the
48-year-old hooker had already spent the money.
Alan Edwin Basham, 60, lost 1,150 British pounds and 4,500 baht in the
Nov. 21 robbery from his hotel room. Police said the suspect, Jidapa
Mul-udd, had slipped a tranquilizer into the Barcardi Breezer she gave
Basham after he picked her up off the beach near Soi 12.
Hotel employees, who took a copy of Jidapa’s identification card, helped
police identify the suspect and police caught up with her at the
Cambodian border in Chantaburi. They money, however, was gone.
Police said Jidapa confessed to the crime, saying she spent the money to
repay a loan shark and purchase necessities for her family.
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