Hanna Charlotta Backlund case

The Hanna Charlotta Backlund case involves the murder of a 27-year-old Swedish woman, named Hanna Charlotta Backlund on the northern tip of the island of Phuket, Thailand on March 14 2008. At the afternoon of her day of death, Backlund asked her travel companion to join her for a walk on the beach but her friend stayed back at the grounds of the hotel on Mai Khao beach, where they camped in a tent. When Backlund failed to return, the friend went looking for her and found her body in the sand. She was attacked and, after fighting back, stabbed in the neck. Furthermore, she had apparent knife wounds on her body and her left hand.

Police said they feared any clues left in the sand had been washed away by waves. [ [http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/16/thailand.sweden.ap/index.html Swedish woman murdered on Thai beach] ]
On March 18 2008 Thai police issued a warrant for the arrest of 31-year-old Akaradet Thatchai Tankay, a Moken sea gypsy who police believe murdered Hanna. [ [http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/19Mar2008_news16.php Bangkok Post News Article] ] . Described as a pool cleaner / gardener, police received reports of his tendency to spy on female tourists on the beach and believed he had fled to the Chumphon region of Thailand.

Later on on the night of March 18, 2008 police arrested Akkaradej "Chon" Tunkae at Ranong Kraburi district with the assistance of the suspect's father and relatives after he had made contact with them from Burma expressing a desire to surrender. [ [http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/read.php?newsid=30068586 The Nation Multimedia News article] ] . It has been reported that he has admitted to stabbing and killing Hanna after he failed to rape her.

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