Brit charged over sex with underage girls
published : 5 Feb 2024 at 05:56
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Wassayos Ngamkham
A British man has been arrested in Bangkok on charges of buying sex from underage girls following the arrest of two women acting as procurers in Hua Hin last August.
Police arrested James Alexander Oldfield, 35, on Yen Akat Road in Sathon district on Saturday.
The arrest was part of an investigation into the customers of two women who had taken girls aged under 18 to sell sex to tourists in Hua Hin.
The investigation found that Mr Oldfield was among those customers. Investigators learned that he had fled to Bangkok, where they tracked him to a residence in Sathon district.
The suspect denied all charges, but the officers said they had firm evidence against him.
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Vocabulary
- arrest: (of the police) taking someone to a police station because they are believed to have committed a crime - การจับกุม
- arrest (verb): (of the police) to take someone to a police station because they are believed to have committed a crime - จับกุม
- denied (verb): said that something is not true or did not happen - ปฏิเสธ
- evidence: facts statements or objects that help to prove whether or not someone has committed a crime - หลักฐาน
- investigation: the process of trying to find out all the details or facts about something in order to discover who or what caused it or how it happened - การสอบสวน, การตรวจสอบหาข้อเท็จจริง
- procurer (noun): Someone whose job is to get/find things for other people, often illegally - ผู้จัดหา
- suspect: a person who is thought to have committed a crime - ผู้ต้องสงสัย
- track: to follow the course of a moving object such as a ship, aircraft or animal using special equipment - ติดตาม, ตามรอย
