Boonlua Chatree
Immigration Police have locked up a Pakistani man who
admitted to robbing bargirls and leaving them nude on the roadside.
Pakistani Munawar Fazal has been arrested and faces multiple charges of
armed robbery.
Munawar Fazal, 41, was arrested while eating at a
street stall on Soi Buakaow Oct. 28 after 24-year-old Soraya Sutaprom
went to police saying she was robbed of 120 baht, jewelry and her
telephone by a Pakistani who offered her a meal and 1,000 baht for sex.
Soraya said she agreed to join the man, but after she
got in his bronze Toyota Vios, he drove her to an isolated area behind
the Poo Pen Restaurant and robbed her at knifepoint of what little money
she had and less than a baht of gold jewelry. He then made her take off
her clothes and left her on the roadside.
After police arrested the Takhiantia resident, he
admitted he’d leased the bronze truck just to support his habit of
preying on poor sex workers and sometimes robbed several in one day the
same way. He made them strip down so they could not follow him as he
fled, he said.
Police found more than 8,700 baht, nearly 3 baht in
gold and five cell phones in his vehicle.
Following the arrest, several other women came forth
to say they’d been victimized similarly.
Nantida Tachaiyaphum, 21, said she was robbed near
Sukhumvit Road of 300 baht, a 2-baht gold necklace and phone before she
was stripped nude and left on the busy highway. And 19-year-old
Thorthida Talhakij earlier reported she was similarly robbed of 500
baht, a 1-baht gold necklace and phone in the same manner.
Fazal now faces multiple charges of armed robbery.
