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Australian man to face Thai court after teen’s alleged murder · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Kristin Amiot with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. An Australian man is expected to
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  Speaker 1: face court in Thailand this week, where he's accused of
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  Speaker 1: murdering a seventeen year old girl and stuffing her body
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  Speaker 1: in a suitcase. Simon Peter Carmen has been charged with
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  Speaker 1: murdering Tunchanok Don Holmer after what police alleged was a
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  Speaker 1: disagreement over one thousand Thai bart about forty Australian dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Carmen and don Holmer were allegedly captured on CCTV footage
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  Speaker 1: walking hand in hand through the lobby of his apartment
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  Speaker 1: building in the early hours of Thursday morning local time.
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  Speaker 1: The forty five year old Australian man was then allegedly
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  Speaker 1: captured on CCTV again almost a day later, dragging a
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  Speaker 1: large black suitcase outside the accommodation. Don Holmer's body was
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  Speaker 1: found near a railway track by Thai police on the
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  Speaker 1: weekend after her friend filed a missing person's report. Officers
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  Speaker 1: arrested Simon Carmen shortly before he was due to board
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  Speaker 1: a JETSTA flight to Perth and charged him with murder,
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  Speaker 1: concealment of a body, moving or destroying a body, and
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  Speaker 1: taking a minor aged between fifteen and eighteen for sexual purposes.
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  Speaker 1: Carmen has not yet been required to enter a plea,
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  Speaker 1: but local media reports he's claimed he acted in self defense.
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  Speaker 1: He addressed Don Holmer's family in a video filmed from custody,
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  Speaker 1: saying felt very bad, but said the situation was out
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  Speaker 1: of his control. The Australian revealed on Monday guns belonging
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  Speaker 1: to Carmen were seized by Australian police about a year
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  Speaker 1: before he traveled to Thailand in late twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: A man who knew Carmen from an industrial complex in
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  Speaker 1: Perth where he was known to reside told The Australian
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  Speaker 1: the forty five year old former truck driver stored guns,
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  Speaker 1: including a twenty two caliber Hornet rifle and a shotgun
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  Speaker 1: in a box with ammunition, in breach of Australian gun laws.
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  Speaker 1: That exclusive stories live right now at the Australian dot
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  Speaker 1: com dot au. England's Test match cricket captain Ben Stokes
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  Speaker 1: has revealed a Test match underway against New Zealand in
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  Speaker 1: Nottingham will mark the end of his international cricket career.
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  Speaker 1: The thirty five year old all rounder informed his teammates
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  Speaker 1: of the shock decision before play began on Sunday local time.
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  Speaker 2: It's been an interested in not only probably four or
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  Speaker 2: five weeks or thing of six months. In general. There's
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  Speaker 2: all types of motions when I think this day comes
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  Speaker 2: to everyone. There's relief, there's happiness, there's excitement, there's sadness,
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  Speaker 2: there's everything that you go through. I guess.
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  Speaker 1: As the news of Stokes's impending retirement made its way
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  Speaker 1: around the ground at trent Bridge, he served up another surprise,
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  Speaker 1: opening the batting for the innings for just the third
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  Speaker 1: time in his Test match career. Stokes is widely regarded
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  Speaker 1: as one of the best Test captains in English cricket history,
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  Speaker 1: but he's been mired in controversy since England's resound funding
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  Speaker 1: Ash's loss this past summer. He was suspended from the
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  Speaker 1: second Test of the New Zealand series along with teammate
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  Speaker 1: Gus Atkinson after breaching a midnight curfew following England's victory
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  Speaker 1: in the first Test. The United States and Iran have
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  Speaker 1: agreed to resume peace talks after exchanging fire for days.
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  Speaker 1: The fighting erupted on Thursday after US President Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: attempted to negotiate a deal around Iran's nuclear program. The
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  Speaker 1: latest round of fighting has stalled the recovery of the
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  Speaker 1: Strait of Hormuz, the vital shipping route through which twenty
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  Speaker 1: percent of the world's oil flowed. Some US officials suggested
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  Speaker 1: renewed peace talks could take place in Doha as soon
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  Speaker 1: as Tuesday. Check out those stories live right now at
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  Speaker 1: the Australian dot Com dot a U and come back
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  Speaker 1: to the front first thing in the morning for our
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  Speaker 1: look at the latest from the Royal Commission into Anti
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  Speaker 1: Semitism and Social Cohesion, where one of Australia's most prominent
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  Speaker 1: Jewish businessmen has called for national service and social media
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  Speaker 1: accountability to repair Australia's cultural fabric. That's right here, Tuesday morning.