Transvestites Nopadol
Jamras and Rarny Yep admitted to stealing, saying it was to support
Briton Lewis Karl Budd.
Boonlua Chatree
Pattaya police have arrested two transvestites who
allegedly stole from swimming tourists more than 20 times to support a
British boyfriend living illegally in the kingdom.
Nopadol Jamras, 29, and Cambodian Rarny Yep, 31, were
apprehended May 4 with a bag and wallet containing 4,200 baht allegedly
taken from two female tourists while they were swimming on Pattaya
Beach.
Police took the two ladyboys back to their Soi
Buakaow apartment and found Lewis Karl Budd, 27, sleeping there.
Checking his passport, police discovered he had overstayed his visa by a
year.
Under interrogation, police said, the two suspects
admitted to stealing more than 36,000 baht in cash and property from the
clothing and bags of tourists as they swam on the beach or at hotels. In
all, they admitted to at least 20 thefts, officers said.
The money, the transvestites said, was used to
support their foreign boyfriend, who didn’t work and was living
illegally in Thailand.
The relationship now appears over as the two men in
skirts were jailed on theft charges and their British boyfriend charged
with immigration offenses and set for deportation.
