Masturbating train station thief was high on drugs

A man forces himself on the woman and beats her before fleeing with her handbag at Kheha BTS skytrain station in Samut Prakan on Tuesday morning. (Capture from clip posted on social media)
A man forces himself on the woman and beats her before fleeing with her handbag at Kheha BTS skytrain station in Samut Prakan on Tuesday morning. (Capture from clip posted on social media)

A 26-year-old man who later admitted to being high on drugs has been arrested for masturbating in public, assaulting a 30-year-old woman and stealing her bag at Kheha BTS skytrain station on Tuesday.

Suthat Chuayrot was arrested by police a few hours after the attack on a station walkway about 9.38am on Tuesday.  

According to police, he admitted to masturbating on the walkway while waiting, approaching and molesting the woman as she arrived at the top of the escalator, trying to force himself on her, hitting her in the face repeatedly, then stealing her handbag and fleeing as another person arrived up the stairway.

The attack was recorded by a security camera.

The man had two previous counts of theft against him and was discharged from prison in February, police said.

The suspect allegedly admitted having taken several tablets of Rohypnol, drinking kratom juice and smoking cannabis prior to committing the crime.

He was heavily intoxicated by all these drugs when he rode his motorcycle to the BTS station, and claimed to have little memory of the events, police said.

Mr Suthat was found with the victim’s mobile phone and 1,050 baht in cash, which were in the stolen handbag.

The victim said she cried out for help as she tried to resist the man, but no one came to her rescue even though a security checkpoint and a ticket counter were just a few metres away.

After hitting her repeatedly in the face with his fist, the attacker had pulled out a knife and threatened to kill her if she continued to fight him, she said. Fortunately, another person had arrived at the top of the escalator, which scared her attacker away

“I used to believe a BTS station is a safe place,” she said. “What would happen if this occurred at night?”

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Vocabulary

  • checkpoint: a place where people have to stop so their vehicles and documents can be checked - ด่านตรวจ
  • count: each crime someone is accused of - คดี
  • discharge: to allow someone officially to leave somewhere, especially a hospital or a court of law - ได้รับอนุญาตให้ออกจาก
  • escalator: a set of moving stairs that take people from one level to another in a large building - บันไดเลื่อน
  • flee: to leave a place or person quickly because you are afraid of possible danger - หนี อพยพ
  • intoxicated: feeling so excited or happy about something that you cannot think clearly - มัวเมา
  • masturbate (verb): to give yourself sexual pleasure by rubbing your sexual organs - ช่วยตัวเอง
  • molest (verb): to attack somebody sexually; to attack somebody physically - ลวนลาม, ปลุกปล้ำ
  • occurred (verb): happened - เกิดขึ้น
  • theft (noun): (the act of) dishonestly taking something which belongs to someone else and keeping it - การลักขโมย
  • thief: someone who steals something. An instance of stealing something is called a theft - ขโมย
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