Travel Forum / Destinations / Asia / February 2006

Beach Road prostitute stabs American tourist for refusing proposition

   Boonlua Chatree
   An American tourist was beaten up and stabbed to death on Beach
Road in the early hours of February 11 by a prostitute and her pimp,
apparently after declining the woman's services.
   A songtaew driver told Pattaya police that a foreign man had been
stabbed at the entrance to Soi 7, only 50 meters away from the police
station, and that he had taken the injured visitor to Pattaya Memorial
Hospital.
   On arrival at the scene of the stabbing officers found a pool of
blood at the entrance to Soi 7. A motorcycle taxi driver and tourists
who had been drinking in a nearby bar said they had seen a Thai male
and female on a pink unlicensed Yamaha Mio motorcycle. They were
talking with the foreign man who subsequently ran across the road to
the entrance of Soi 7 and that the Thai man ran after him kicking and
punching him, and knocking him to the ground. The woman then walked
over and stabbed him before the pair made their getaway.
   Officers at the hospital found Tony Lindsey of Honolulu undergoing
emergency treatment to injuries suffered to the lower abdomen, the
right rib cage and right wrist. Doctors tried hard to save him, but due
to the massive loss of blood and the severity of the injuries he died.
   Preliminary investigations have revealed that the woman is a
prostitute who plies her trade along Beach Road and that her pimp is
always close by. Police believe that the American tourist was
propositioned by the woman, but refused and may have insulted her in
the process. This resulted in the pimp beating him up before the woman
stabbed him. Police are looking for the pair.