Chinese authorities this morning arrested three suspects in the kidnapping and murder of a Chinese music student in Bangkok, one of whom had been romantically involved with the victim.
Police in the central city of Wuhan detained Chen Saikang, Zhao Pengfei, and Zhao Xiongfei who allegedly fled to China after dumping the body of 22-year-old Jin Can when her family failed to pay a ransom.
Warrants issued by the Nonthaburi Provincial Court; where Jin Can was abducted, tortured and ultimately murdered; detailed six charges including kidnapping a person over 15 years by threat of violence or coercion, abduction for the purpose of ransom, murder to conceal a crime, and destroying a corpse to conceal a death.
It does not seem the suspects will face trial in Thailand. Thai police said the trio would be prosecuted under Chinese law.
According to the authorities, the victim was previously in a relationship with one of the suspects back in China.
Thai police also detained a 19-year-old woman they believe aided the men. She told police that the men frequented the karaoke bar where she worked and that she advised them on how to carry out the kidnapping.
Jin was abducted near Central Westgate shopping mall on March 28. The kidnappers held her for ransom at a rented house in the northwest metro province of Nonthaburi, from where they called her father in China on Wednesday to demand THB2.5 million.
Confused by what was happening, her father initially refused and then was unable to contact Jin’s captors. The police said that later Wednesday, after refusing to have sex with her captors, they killed Jin by stabbing her multiple times in the chest and shoulder before strangling her to death.
Her body was dumped Thursday in a canal at a banana plantation after which the three men left Thailand on a flight to Chengdu, China.
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