Bangkok Post – Fake taxi-motorcycle driver suspected of serial rape

According to police, a man robbed drunk women outside Bangkok nightclubs

A man who posed as a motorcycle taxi driver and harassed drunk women every night has been arrested on suspicion of raping a Chinese woman he picked up at a Bangkok nightclub, police said.

The 35-year-old suspect, identified only as Thanapat, was arrested on his motorbike on Royal City Avenue in Huai Khwang district at 5 a.m. on Wednesday, said Pol Maj Gen Theeradet Thumsuthee, chief of investigations at the Metropolitan Police Bureau.

When officers examined his cellphone, they found a video of his last victim drunkenly urinating and vomiting in bed. They also found similar videos of five other women and other people depicting child abuse.

The arrest followed a complaint by a Chinese woman who told police at Phaya Thai station that she woke up naked next to a man in a motel. She said she had been raped and had semen in her body.

Investigators found that the suspect was usually dressed like a motorcycle taxi driver and would search for drunken victims in nightclubs between 1 and 5 a.m. after the bars closed.

According to Police Major General Theeradet, the Chinese woman was waiting on Royal City Avenue on Monday for a driver she had called via an app. The suspect approached her on his bicycle and pretended to be the driver she had called.

He then took her to a motel on Rang Nam Road, where he raped her for about two hours, police said.

Mr Thanapat denied all allegations and said he had the woman’s consent. He also said the other women recorded on his phone were sex workers.

Major General Theeradet said police do not believe the suspect and have evidence that he harasses drunk women in entertainment venues every night. The commander urged other victims to file complaints.

Police also noted that the suspect had been prosecuted for two thefts in Phayao in 2008 and 2012, as well as illegal gambling in Huai Khwang district in 2018.