Security cameras caught
the thief as he was rushing out of the building with the stolen
property.
Teerarak Suthathiwong
A British-Thai couple lost about 160,000 baht in a daring
home-invasion robbery at their East Pattaya condominium.
Briton Keith Taylor, 46, and his wife Makawan Taylor, 37, told police
that a Thai man in his mid-20s pushed his way into their seventh-floor
unit at the Pattaya Pad condominium on Sukhumvit Soi 42 the afternoon of
Dec. 24.
The couple, which spends most of the year in the United Kingdom, had
just returned for Thailand and noticed the same man talking on the
telephone in front of their flat. Shortly later, after putting down
their luggage, they heard a knock at the front door, only to find the
same man there.
Makawan said he told them the building manager wanted to speak to them.
Taylor left the unit to find the manager and, after he was gone, the
suspect rushed past Makawan and grabbed a handbag off the table
containing 2,000 British pounds, credit cards, passports and other
documents. He then fled downstairs and fled on a motorbike.
Police have security-camera footage of the suspect arriving on the
motorbike and then casing each floor, looking for opportunities for
theft where there was little, if any, traffic in the halls.
