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BANGKOK - A THAI man suspected of killing a Swedish tourist on the southern resort island of Phuket has surrendered to police after a three-day manhunt, police said on Wednesday.
Hanna Charlotta Backlund, 27, was found stabbed to death on Saturday near her bungalow on Mai Khao beach in northern Phuket where she had gone for a walk.
'Initially I just wanted to rape her,' a handcuffed Akaradech Tangae said with a smile as he was brought to Phuket police headquarters on Wednesday.
'But she resisted and I had to kill her,' said the 31-year-old labourer who surrendered to police on Tuesday.
Akaradech fled to neighbouring Myanmar but returned after police assured his relatives that a murder charge would not carry the death penalty.
'He is a 'peeping tom'. He loves to bring friends to this remote and quiet beach to look at naked tourists swimming or sunbathing,' Police Lieutenant-General Tani Twidsi said.
Phuket, one of the six southern provinces hit by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami which killed 5,395 people in Thailand, is a popular destination for Western tourists fleeing cold winters. -- REUTERS
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