According to police, Fu Tongyung, 42, confessed to slaying Woranan Pannacha, a 25-year-old transwoman who was a native of Nong Khai province, reports the Bangkok Post.
Fu was quoted as saying through a translator that he met Woranan near South Pattaya beach on Friday evening (Apr 25) and exchanged WeChat application contacts with her. At that time, he thought Woranan was a woman by birth.
At about 9pm on Friday, Woranan contacted him. They met at Fu’s rented room and agreed to have sex for B8,000.
The Chinese man said that Woranan later refused to have sex with him, so he demanded a 50% refund.
As she did not give the partial refund, the two quarrelled and fought. The woman scratched Fu’s face and kicked him off his bed. Fu then got back on the bed, sat on her body and strangled her.
He dragged her body to a toilet room, used scissors to cut open Woranan’s breasts and pulled out her silicone implants.
Fu told police he then felt like he wanted to “play” with the body so he used the scissors to cut open the body from the neck to the genitals and took out the heart.
Afterwards, he washed the body and himself, went to bed, slept, woke up in the morning, reserved a flight and travelled to Suvarnabhumi airport to return to China. He was arrested at the airport in Samut Prakan province on Saturday.
Local police were called to the scene at 10am on Saturday after other tenants reported hearing the suspect and another individual engaged in a heated argument between 1am and 2.30am.
Fu said he did not know if he was mentally ill because he had never sought a diagnosis. He said he could not control himself after the victim attacked him.
He was a welder in China and had paid three visits to Thailand previously. On his first visit, he travelled in a tour group but for the last two visits, he visited the country alone.
He said he did nothing with the lungs of the victim, which were missing from the body. He apologised for the crime.
Pattaya police chief Pol Col Anek Sathongyu said the suspect confessed amid strong evidence proved he had committed the crime. The chief said that the lungs of the victim went missing but the bag that the suspect carried contained only a drinking bottle, not an organ.