February 11th, 2006, 17:30
American man fighting for his life after late night knife attack on Pattaya Beach.
A shocking case of a violent assault now from Soi 7 which has already made the national press here in Thailand. Police Major Sirapop from Pattaya Police Station was called to Pattaya Beach Road at the front of Soi 7 in the early hours of Saturday Morning to investigate an assault on an American tourist. The man, who was rushed to the Pattaya Memorial Hospital, was identified as Mr. Tony Lindsey aged 44 from America. He had sustained multiple stab wounds to his groin, stomach and right arm. He is now in a critical but stable condition in hospital and is now undergoing emergency surgery. Witnesses mentioned seeing the man walk down Soi 7 towards the beachfront with a female, though to be a bar girl. A man approached on a motorbike and both the man and woman begun the vicious attack, which took place on the beach promenade. A Baht Bus driver, Khun Somkuan aged 45 saw the attack and took the badly injured man to hospital. The Thai man and woman fled on their Orange colored Yamaha Mio Motorbike. Police now have two theories regarding the attack. The first relates to the potential of a jealous attack from an ex-boyfriend of the bar girl and the second suggests the couple were working together and attacked the man in order to steal his possessions. The investigation continues.
http://www.pattayacitynews.net/news_11_02_49.htm
A shocking case of a violent assault now from Soi 7 which has already made the national press here in Thailand. Police Major Sirapop from Pattaya Police Station was called to Pattaya Beach Road at the front of Soi 7 in the early hours of Saturday Morning to investigate an assault on an American tourist. The man, who was rushed to the Pattaya Memorial Hospital, was identified as Mr. Tony Lindsey aged 44 from America. He had sustained multiple stab wounds to his groin, stomach and right arm. He is now in a critical but stable condition in hospital and is now undergoing emergency surgery. Witnesses mentioned seeing the man walk down Soi 7 towards the beachfront with a female, though to be a bar girl. A man approached on a motorbike and both the man and woman begun the vicious attack, which took place on the beach promenade. A Baht Bus driver, Khun Somkuan aged 45 saw the attack and took the badly injured man to hospital. The Thai man and woman fled on their Orange colored Yamaha Mio Motorbike. Police now have two theories regarding the attack. The first relates to the potential of a jealous attack from an ex-boyfriend of the bar girl and the second suggests the couple were working together and attacked the man in order to steal his possessions. The investigation continues.
http://www.pattayacitynews.net/news_11_02_49.htm