Pacific Dispatch with Katie Macdonald: Suitcase murder charge, whipping ban court battle, and the great roast chook debate
Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit · 3 July 2026 · 7m
Speaker 1: This is Keith Talk. Speaker 2: Let us do Pacific Dispatch with Katie MacDonald. Good morning, Katie. I don't know what Speaker 2: part of you're in Sydney, so it's late evening I think if I've got my Speaker 2: time zones correct, So whatever time of the day it is in Australia, I wish Speaker 1: man aged in his forties and he was arrested actually at the airport last Friday. Speaker 1: He was about to broughd a flight to Perth and essentially what happened was they Speaker 1: found the body of a seventeen year old girl in a suitcase and dumped near Speaker 1: a railway line in this area area CORPATEAA. And he faces charges. He's in jail Speaker 1: at the moment. He's got four charges he's facing including murder, concealing a body in Speaker 1: all of such and or sorry related ones like that to that but also taking Speaker 1: a minor for sexual purposes. Now he has denied this, they have this CCV CCTV Speaker 1: evidence. Sorry, I'm having issues with acronyms today because it is cold. It is cold Speaker 1: here. But apart from the tragedy of the case itself, it's also highlighted the level Speaker 1: of sex tourism in Thailand, underage girls in particular. Yeah, people not just from Australia Speaker 1: but other countries that go there, and recently Thailand is actually they've tightened their visa Speaker 1: requirement so it's something that the authorities, they are aware of it. It's a tragic Speaker 1: case and there is strong evidence against somebody is innocent toil proven guilty, and it's Speaker 1: just yeah, sorry, John, it's it's actually too sad when you look at the whole Speaker 1: thing. Speaker 2:…
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